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Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people ...
In the 17th century, the notorious pirate Captain Morgan is pardoned and made the new governor of Jamaica, in return ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: PREMIER TAKES UP REINS AGAIN SOVIET VICTORIES INSPIRE ALLIES GENERAL SIKORSKI'S MEETING WITH ...
I. "Three Phases of the World At War": Scenes of the Philippine Islands include damage on Luzon.
II. "Defence of the ...
A newsreel compilation picture ("presented to the Prime Minister") of Churchill's visit to Washington and Ottawa in December ...
Amateur film shot by a local Bahamian cameraman records the life in the Bahamas of the twenty English evacuee schoolboys ...
A tour of Martinique, Trinidad, Barbados and Tobago.
A short propaganda film, produced by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Manchester, showing the bomb damage to the city ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 28 February 1941 on a cold and wet day in Scapa Flow as a large ...
A survey of Trinidad, its street architecture, arts and crafts and its native population.
(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.
(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South ...
NASSAU IN THE 1930s
INTEREST. Travelogue and promotional film for the island of Bermuda.
Main title and credits (37). LS `Queen of Bermuda' liner leaving ...
Amateur film of Buenos Aires and the Falkland Islands.
Entering Buenos Aires, travelling shot of street scenes in the city, skyscrapers, ...
Amateur film of a trip to Cuba, Bermuda and the Azores.
On the ship, a quoits contest, a face wash race ...
An account of the slave trade in the West Indies, and the islands' development since emancipation.
Copeland Grant, seated in a ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of grapefruit in the British Honduras.
Titles (17). Woman eating grapefruit (21). Men planting out sour orange seedlings ...
The cultivation and export of bananas in Jamaica.
Opening in January as local ploughmen plough a large field in readiness for ...
Amateur film of a trip along the Panama Canal, and to Jamaica.
Pelicans and guanos off Lobos de Afuera (Peru). The ...
Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.
The forests and the mahogany timber industry of British Honduras.
Amateur film of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua, with some shots of Miami and Havana.
The people of Dominica clebrate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in their own tradional ways.
Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, ...
A reel subtitled "Places visited and people met" showing off-duty activities around the world - an elaborate picnic in Algiers, ...
Survey of the production and consumption of milk in US; rapid growth of the winter holiday institution in US; preparations ...
"Every year on the two days preceding Ash Wednesday, Dominica gives itself up to the spirit of Carnival".
Everyday use of asphalt for roadmaking and roofing are followed by a description of the Pitch Lake at La Brea, ...
(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at ...
Trinidad; its products and the people who work on the plantations.
Story of English doctor accused of treason in the time of King James II and deported to Jamaica where he ...
Part One. (B&W) "Atlantic crossing": HMS Dragon running swiftly in choppy seas. "Drills at Bermuda": an awning is rigged over ...
Record of journey made by Reverend G.E. Hickman Johnson and his wife to see work being done by missionaries in ...
The reel consists of numerous shots, with occasional intertitles, in no particular order, including the following (but see notes): (B&W) ...
An island by island account of a visit by Methodist ministers to the missions between October '35 and February '36.
Traveling ...
A film addressing the geographical conditions, agriculture, and industries within British Guiana.
A title explains that 'the low marshy coast of ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The banana industry in Jamaica.
Credits (30). Views of the hillside and banana plantations (76). Branches are cut down and ...
Life on board a liner, the Orford of the Orient Line, on a cruise to the Caribbean.
The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods.
Over a map of Barbados, a West ...
DOCUMENTARY. The reconstruction of two sea engagements of the First World War - the Battles of the Coronel of 1st ...
Amateur film. Reindeer; penquins with chicks; King penguins; sea elephants; Prins Olaf Haven; flensing platform; harbour scenes; making a football ...
Amateur film. Leith Harbour; Garonda Peak; whale catcher; working at Dam; factory; oil storage tanks; view over island; reservoir.
"KINGSTON, JAMAICA: A WONDERFUL WELCOME : EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WHO COULD GET THERE TURNED OUT TO GREET THE ...
?Amateur footage: scenes on deck of H.M.S. Carlisle off Tristan da Cunha; supplies rowed shore; ship's chaplain with bridal couple; ...
"London, Houses of Parliament, `cameos of the Caribbean' Way out on the Spanish main, where Drake and his sea-dogs chased ...
Castries, St Lucia; Georgetown, Grenada; Windward Islands
Amateur film.
Sign, reading H.M.S. Orion, parade and scouts lining up for march. Woodpecker on tree. Sea-shore and team paddling. Teatime ...