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Kenya attained independence in 1963.
Footage of Nandi tribal dancing. Recruiting for the Kings African Rifles. The Turkana tribe preparing meals and dancing. WaTesio dancers, ...
Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on portraits of colonials in London, the rehabilitation of African soldiers in ...
START 10:00:03 Views of dry savannah country in Kenya where two giraffes are seen roaming. Five white hunters turn up ...
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received ...
A film which contrasts the old and the new outlooks in Kenya. An elder of a coastal village has a ...
Unedited takes of fishing and fishermen in Kenya.
There are several sequences divided by makeshift 'slates'. (1) Static shot ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to ...
Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
A trip by truck from Nairobi into the semi-arid Northern Frontier Districts.
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th ...
Scenes from the Army Exhibition in Nairobi in September 1944. The film depicts African and European schoolboys inspecting ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. ...
The South African Army at war.
Film showing: the departure of troops to Kenya; how the equipment was provided; ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: CANADA - AIRFIELD OF DEMOCRACY NEWS IN FLASHES P.M. BACK WITH ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA COAST DEFENCE PRESENTING SEAFIRES LIGHTER MOMENTS IN THE DESERT ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African ...
Production footage/unedited material for a travelogue about Kenya and Mombasa.
No titles. An Asian ivory carver at work; an African brings ...
4 Items from BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS Vol 12 No 606.
Title: THE MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC WARFARE. President of the Board of ...
Kenya's first two years of war.
Opens with establishing shots - Mount Kenya, wild-life, black schoolchildren, white settlers; maps ...