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A report on Anguilla, with Robert Bradshaw and Sir Frederick Phillips.
A look at life on Ascension Island.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's five-week tour of the Caribbean, in February 1966.
Film of the Falls Patrol in British Guiana.
Footage of the patrol and one of the soldiers talking about ...
CINEMAGAZINE.
Items on the modern postal automated systems. Delivery of air-mailed flowers to Westminster Abbey from Jamaica; Spode Commemorative Plate made ...
Extract of the Queen's activities from newsreels.
R.1: Visiting British Guyana, the first stop of the Caribean Tour since exception of ...
A profile on Dominica.
Lime juice production. Made to mark the centenary of the sponsoring firm, L. Rose & Co. Ltd., The sponsor's estates ...
Film showing an army catering section at a camp in British Guiana.
Footage of the soldiers cooking is followed ...
A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a ...
Actuality: uncut footage, posibly out-takes of events during and surrounding the filming of "Thunderball" in the Bahamas.
Shots of large props ...
Construction of settlements on the island during the early 1960s.
Reel 1. The farm on Green mountain. Cows being moved within ...
Includes: repatriation to Tristan da Cunha from Tilbury.
Holidays in the Caribbean: Bermuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Antigua, Tobago and Trinidad.
The development and growth of the volcano from the beginning of the eruption in October 1961 until March 1962 when ...
Looks at early race relations in Britain. Tells the story of a West Indian man as he makes his way ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.
A record of Trinidad at the time of its independence.
DOCUMENTARY. Dr Cheddi Jagan, Prime Minister of British Guiana, talks about the social and racial problems of the colony and ...
A light-hearted look at different ways people relax. Lilias Tougher, a teacher in the village of Great Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, ...
Politics in British Guiana.
Melodrama dealing with racism. Centres on domestic difficulties which develop in a working class family when their daughter falls in ...
An 'on the spot' report by Julian Pettifer showing the rle of the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the ...
INTEREST. Cricket match: Barbados defeat the M.C.C.
Story illustrating the work of an Anglican priest in British Guiana, and the shortage of priests there.
Scenes in the Caribbean islands including footage of harvesting and industry. Interior shots of a bottling factory and loading products ...
Scenes of life in British Guiana; includes aerial footage of the waterfalls in the Guiana Highlands, clearing forested land, a ...
Film on the famous Trinidad Carnival.
Coverage of the third Test at Sabina Park, during the 1959/60 MCC tour of the We st Indies.
An overview of West Indies, as an aid to understanding West Indians in Britain. The film concentrates on the British ...
"The world's loneliest inhabited island" filmed during the Gough Island Scientific Survey in 1955-56. Geography, history, economy, etc.
The tour of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to India, Pakistan, Sarawak, Singapore, North Borneo, Hong Kong, the Solomon, Gilbert ...
When the daughter of a trade union organiser announces her relationship with a black man, the revelation exposes deep prejudice ...
Made to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Methodist work in the West Indies and Central America. Shows a midnight service ...
A travelogue of the island of Bermuda in a car.
Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.
Travelogue.
Film of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon "Small World" in December ...
Documentary on the Caribbean, shot during the making of "Fire Down Below". Tour of Trinidad, sporting activities, carnivals and the ...
Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and ...
Scenes of the 1957 Trinidad Carnival, shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad, 1950-60.
DOCUMENTARY. The first journey of the commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition to set up a base camp on the Weddell Sea.
RL.1 NOV. ...
TV play about the lives of West Indian immigrants in Britain.
Ships of the British Home Fleet pay goodwill visits to islands in the West Indies and then join ...
New York; "Florida" - Fort Pierce - Miami; "Caribbean Islands"; Cuba; Montego Bay airport; St Kitts - aerial shot of ...
Amateur film. Tanker leaving `Southern Harvester'; arriving Leith Harbour; `Southern Harvester' from the air; whale thrashing; whales alongside `Southern Harvester'. ...
Amateur film. Leith Harbour; floating dock; pumps; `Southern Harvester'; floating factory; gunner in corvette; pipes for blowing; playing the whale. ...