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Si-Mohammed-Ben-Moktar sending out invites to great falcon hunt.
INTEREST. Section of a travelogue of a North African country.
Pan of a crowded market-place in a North African town, showing ...
Travelogue. A view of the Zambezi from the banks (6-14); a boat embarks from the shore (36); and canoes on ...
ACTUALITY. The construction of a railway bridge across a river in South Africa.
A gang of African labourers, with an overseer, ...
INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.
A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a ...
ACTUALITY. A lion hunt in East Africa.
"Native lion hunt" (2). An African on horseback canters towards the camera (9). African ...
Travelogue showing scenes from Victoria Falls.
An African woman stands beside a sign which reads 'David Livingstone cut his initials on ...
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...
ACTUALITY. Pottery making, weapon making, cattle driving and the formal greeting of the Barotse people.
Titles (10). MS African women sitting ...
ACTUALITY. The departure of Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for South Africa to sign the Boer peace ...
Scenes at the annual Hull fair.
Replacement title (0.07). Man at boxing booth gesturing to unseen crowd.The man wearing a light ...
A dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two Boers sneaking up ...
Dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two nurses saved from the ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Native drivers and British soldiers stand by the bank of the river urging on the long teams ...
ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.
A small contingent of soldiers ...
ACTUALITY. Men in pith helmets on horseback ford a river and climb the bank. MCU men driving carts pulled by ...
ACTUALITY. Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Cavalrymen dressed as Boers escort a number of men wearing kilts towards and past the camera. One or two ...
DOCUMENTARY. "Fake newsfilm" of a Boer war skirmish.
A number of Boer volunteers direct rifle fire and cannon fire at the ...
RECONSTRUCTION. A number of cavalrymen dressed as Boers ride towards and past the camera brandishing their swords. A solitary rider ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Three British cavalrymen ride from right to left across a flat landscape, with a group of cavalry ...
ACTUALITY. City Imperial Volunteers, carrying rifles and equipment, clamber up the gangway of a troopship at the foot of which ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Faked Boer War incident.
View from behind the "Boer" position as they fire with rifles and a small cannon against ...