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Southern Rhodesia declared independence unilaterally as Rhodesia in 1965. It achieved formal independence as Zimbabwe in 1980.
Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train ...
By means of a letter addressed to 'the members, Cinema Clubs for Girls and Boys, Great Britain', a young boy ...
Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.
Diamond mines, Victoria Falls, rain forest and other geographical features.
A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.
A ...
Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is ...
Includes: redundancies in British factories caused by fuel shortages; British youths emigrating as colonists from Britain to Rhodesia.
The story of a young disabled boy who escapes from his tribe as he is about to be sacrificed because ...
Outline of the Royal Family's tour of Southern Rhodesia in 1947.
Landscape. A plane lands at Salisbury; George VI and Princess ...
Report on the Royal visit.
INTEREST. Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947: 31st Jan. 1947 - Royal cars leaving Buckingham Palace, cheering crowds, drive down ...
A story of Rhodesia intended for potential European immigrants. The film highlights the contemporary conditions of life there, outlining the ...
"Cecil Rhodes brought peace to what is now Southern Africa. The Africans were a primitive people...superstitious and wasteful...". An African ...
AMATEUR FILM. IAC leader. `En route at Khartoum': loading and boarding plane; Salisbury; street scenes; flower market; bowling green; `Astor' ...
The film describes how a mission-trained Africanboy returns to his home village, having been at the mission school since a ...
A travelogue of Southern Rhodesia intended for prospective British tourists and immigrants.
Opening with a consideration of ancient Rhodesia, the film ...
Tourist 'Travel film' of Wild life in Game park and wall paintings in cave. The grave of Rhodes.
Cape town ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
Views of traditional life in S. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to illustrate the tribal background to missionary work.
London - Thames scenes - ...
Official production highlights the war effort of Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War.
The film opens with a ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GIBRALTAR DEFENCES HIS MAJESTY SEES PARATROOPERS SINKING OF 'BISMARK' NEW FIGHT FIGHTER OUR ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: LIGHTS OF LONDON AT DUSK MR EDEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST ...
The development of Rhodesia from its discovery. The beauty of the Victoria Falls and the surrounding grasslands are explored.
Biography of the American explorer from his reporting for the New York Herald to the discovery of Livingstone's body and ...
Travelogue of Southern Rhodesia. Scenes in Bulawayo, factory workshops for the railways. Gold mining operations in a large foundry and ...
Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.
The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. How a Rhodesian African makes fire.
An African sits by a tree and carves a notch into a soft stick. ...
Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.
Reel One of three.
Victoria Falls. The four-day ...
Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.
SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS
Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape ...
INTEREST. The highlands of Rhodesia.
Credits (37). A map of Southern Rhodesia outlining the Eastern Districts (55). Beira: over shots of ...
Travelogue of Southern Africa: the Transvaal, Pretoria, Johannesburg mines, Rhodesia, Kimberley diamond mines, Buffalo river, Port Elizabeth, an ostrich farm, ...
The Duke of Kent's tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in 1934.
INTEREST. The ruins of Zimbabwe. Close-up of African native, shot of a native beating a drum as commentary states that ...
HOME MOVIE. Amateur footage of various localities in Africa, including Victoria Falls and possibly South Africa.
Victoria Falls. Men in pith ...
HOME MOVIE. Amateur footage of a holiday on a cruise liner, and in Madeira and Africa, including shots of Victoria ...
TRAVELOGUE. 1920s footage of African wildlife with added commentary and Ravel's Bolero.
Wildlife - zebras, ostriches; ostrich shot by man in ...
Wildlife safari to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Portugese East Africa (Mozambique).
Light aeroplanes at Heston aerodrome (75ft).
Amateur film of MCC cricket tour. War memorial. Cricketers visit Rhodes memorial. Percy Chapman filming (48). Open-air dinner party for ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of ...
Street scenes in ?Salisbury (177) A Kikuyu farm (263) Wambugu, Chief of the Kikuyu, greets Dr Philps of the Church ...
INTEREST. Amateur film showing Cape Town, the Table Mountain, Kimberley Mine, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls, and the Zambezi river. ...
ACTUALITY. A record of a visit to South Africa by a group of American tourists during a world tour on ...
Dramatisation of the life of the African missionary David Livingstone.
Opening with shots from Livingstone's childhood ('youth's most precious heritage - ...
THE PRINCE OF WALES‰ TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA, MAY-JULY 1925