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Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the ...
The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; ...
START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes at Scapa Flow filmed on 4 March 1941: a port side profile of the battleship HMS Nelson ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of the accession of Mutesa II in Kampala, 19th-20th November 1942.
The 1st Battalion of Rhodesian Light Infantry, 3 recruits are followed through basic training.
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a ...
A Missionary in a remote African district fights plague and prejudice.
Dr Pyke, the headmaster of Portland House Preparatory School, delivers ...
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the ...
INTEREST. A travelogue set in Western Uganda, bordering the Congo. View across the Ruwenzori Mountains. The hot, sulphur springs on ...
Record of the operation to separate the Siamese twins from Africa.
Conservative Party newsreel. Cartoon pointing out that there is no age limit for School Certificate entrants. The Commonwealth Conference. The ...
Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.
The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields ...
INTEREST. This appears to be part of a film contrasting scenes in an English village with African village life.
A woman ...
The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.
A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined ...
INTEREST. The production of copper in Northern Rhodesia. Welfare facilites provided for the mining communities, including the towns of Mufulira, ...
INTEREST. Celebrations in Dar Es-Salaam to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
The construction, by Richard Costain Ltd, of Kariba Heights, a township to house workers employed on the Kariba Dam project ...
Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and ...
The growing processing and weaving of cotton from East Africa.
Survey of the cotton industry in Uganda.
Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and ...
Shows all stages in the planting, growing, work in the ginner and the buying and selling of cotton.
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Three British cavalrymen ride from right to left across a flat landscape, with a group of cavalry ...
First of Brunel's burlesques. All parts played by Adrian Brunel.
Angus Buchanan's expedition to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. Includes Sir Hugh Clifford and the Executive Council ...
The sugar industry in Rhodesia, including:- 1960 Bulawayo trade show, the sugar pavillion and the visit by the Queen Mother, ...
The technique of abortion using the Karman Kurette. The film stresses the ease of the technique and also the lack ...
A hunter kills a sacred lion and is cursed by a native chief. Unhealed he returns to Africa and kills ...
INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.
A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a ...
DOCUMENTARY. Record of film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Belgian Congo Expedition.
RL.1 We follow the journey of the expedition from Belgium ...
Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.
Travelogue, showing the buildings, people and wildlife of Nairobi.
Over shots of modern Nairobi, the commentator outlines the transformation of the ...
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - ...
A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives ...
Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.
The control of bilharzia and malaria in Rhodesia.
INTEREST. Some of the animals in Johannesburg Zoo.
Titles (69). General views of the zoo (95). Pelican (106). People looking at ...
ACTUALITY. The departure of Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for South Africa to sign the Boer peace ...
A summary of the activities of the United Africa Company, part of the sponsor's group. Import of raw material from ...
Sponsored film showing building and civil engineering schemes in southern Africa.
The film begins in Lusaka, then Rhodesia, and travels through ...
A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working ...
Kenya. The work of District teams in combatting disease and increasing food supplies. Town refuse and animal manure are made ...
A study in social transition, presenting the problem of a young village African who goes to work in the Rhodesian ...
Diet film for employers of African labour.