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Jamaica gained independence in 1962.
DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.
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 ...
Coverage of the third Test at Sabina Park, during the 1959/60 MCC tour of the We st Indies.
Made to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Methodist work in the West Indies and Central America. Shows a midnight service ...
Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.
Travelogue.
Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and ...
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 ...
Travelogue of Jamaica.
The Canopus touching down in Montego Bay; the visit to Kingston, the American n naval reception at Panama; the enthusiasm ...
The visit of Winston Churchill to Jamaica in January 1953.
The film opens with the arrival of Winston Churchill at ...
A TRAVELOGUE ABOUT JAMAICA WITH EMPHASIS ON KINGSTON.
The care and management of dairy herds in Jamaica in order to maximise milk yields.
Over agricultural shots, a Jamaican voiceover ...
An industrial process film for Tate and Lyle, showing the growth and processing of sugar cane, from the fields of ...
Amateur footage featuring Noel Coward in Jamaica.
Economic problems of Jamaica today and the struggle for survival.
Amateur footage of a journey made from Britain to Jamaica.
Threshing and haystack making. Docks. Salisbury Cathedral. The voyage, Newcastle to ...
Amateur footage of a visit to Jamaica by Society of Friends.
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER DIVE BOMBED ALLIED COMMANDERS MEET IN BERLIN BRITAIN'S ...
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people ...
(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.
(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South ...
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 ...
Amateur film of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua, with some shots of Miami and Havana.
Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, ...
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 ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The banana industry in Jamaica.
Credits (30). Views of the hillside and banana plantations (76). Branches are cut down and ...
The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods.
Over a map of Barbados, a West ...
"KINGSTON, JAMAICA: A WONDERFUL WELCOME : EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WHO COULD GET THERE TURNED OUT TO GREET THE ...
The goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924.
The ...
Cinemagazine: includes items on Cuba, ice manufacture in N. America, fiddler crabs in the Mississipi River, the sugar cane industry ...
A gambler plots to sabotage a train carrying a racehorse.
'Doris overhears Lopez plotting with Headway to wreck the train in ...
Scenes in Jamaica, featuring shots from a train.
A title introduces 'Montego Bay. The Market Square and Main Street'. The camera ...
Main title. Men and uniformed firemen in open area directing a hose, man waving onlookers back. Doorway of a corrugated ...