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Actuality: uncut footage, posibly out-takes of events during and surrounding the filming of "Thunderball" in the Bahamas.
Shots of large props ...
TRAVEL. Scenes on the island of Tristan da Cunha and at Cape Town prior to leaving.
Main Title: `To Tristan da ...
Scenes of the 1957 Trinidad Carnival, shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad, 1950-60.
Scenes of the 1955 Trinidad carnival shot by Alan Broad, British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad, 1950-1960.
"The world's loneliest inhabited island" filmed during the Gough Island Scientific Survey in 1955-56. Geography, history, economy, etc.
PROPAGANDA. Appeal by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for funds to continue its work on Tristan da ...
Documentary about Tristan De Cunha, one of the world's most isolated islands, with a population of only 300 people. The ...
The forests and the mahogany timber industry of British Honduras.
Shots of HiHo windsurfing championships around the British Virgins Islands.
[Director: Brockhaus; Camera: Ganor]
Cinemagazine: includes items on Cuba, ice manufacture in N. America, fiddler crabs in the Mississipi River, the sugar cane industry ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
An island by island account of a visit by Methodist ministers to the missions between October '35 and February '36.
Traveling ...
?Amateur footage: scenes on deck of H.M.S. Carlisle off Tristan da Cunha; supplies rowed shore; ship's chaplain with bridal couple; ...
A travelogue of the island of Bermuda in a car.
Repairing a break in the Atlantic cable system.
Volcanologist Mark Davies attempts to monitor the seismic activity of Soufrière on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The volcano is ...
The development and growth of the volcano from the beginning of the eruption in October 1961 until March 1962 when ...
Belize facing a take-over bid by neighbouring Guatemala.
Looks at the lead-up to the Falklands War, the assembling of a task force of battleships in Britain and its ...
Report on the latest news from the South Atlantic with interviews with Jon Connell, Col. Neil Maude, Air Chief Marshall, ...
Ulster Unionist Leader, James Molyneux survived a debate in Northern Ireland by a majority of only three. He wants an ...
Looks at early race relations in Britain. Tells the story of a West Indian man as he makes his way ...
Amateur film of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua, with some shots of Miami and Havana.
Cinemagazine on cocoa production in Tobago.
"Photographics Present...Cocoa". A waterfall in Tobago, in the British West Indies. The history of the ...
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people ...
The wildlife of Ascension Island, including the wild cats, terns and green turtles.
The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods.
Over a map of Barbados, a West ...
Judith travels to the Caribbean island of Anguilla, John Carter takes a Norwegian Coastal cruise and Anna Walker visits the ...
Mary Nighingale enroles for a cookery course with cordon bleu chef Raymond Blanc. Rhodri Owen gets fit at a sports ...
DOCUMENTARY/PROPAGANDA. Rushes for an unreleased and unfinished production documenting various talented members of the black community in Britain.
207306A Scene 5 ...
A McDonald's franchise holder has been fined for breach of child labour laws. 'Jobs for Kids'. Are children being exploited ...