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Giant tortoise. Coastal and shipboard scenes. Hunting of sea turtles (possibly same footage as Roach 007?). Ships at sea. Coastal ...
Family and home scenes.
Botswanan politician, Khama, is allowed to return for five days, from exile, because his wife is expecting a baby.
[Son of ...
Seretse Khama is seen arriving in a flying boat at Southampton with his wife and child. He is starting his ...
Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.
'Alabi, a ...
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
Advertising film. Shows the life of an African family in the Transvaal.
A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.
INTEREST. Tsetse fly and attempts to curb its effect in Africa.
Credits (40). General views of African scrubland south of the ...
A Ugandan family re-organizes itself to increase its output of murram (hard gravel) blocks.
The film opens with a shot of ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, ...