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Under British rule from 1917, Tanganyika attained independence in 1961. It is now part of Tanzania.
DOCUMENTARY. Tanganyika on the eve of independence. An interview with Julius Nyerere.
How a college education in Dar es-salaam is changing the lifestyle of Victor Kimeseru, a Masai tribesman from Tanganyika.
Shows all stages in the planting, growing, work in the ginner and the buying and selling of cotton.
This film includes footage of building work going on in Kisumu docks, a family Christmas, sailing boats racing on a ...
Wild life in Lake Manyara National Park. Forest Fire. Village street. Local boys cutting grass with machetes. Mother elephant with ...
3 x Edited films. 'Local leave': record of holiday journey through East Africa. Map shows journey: from Uganda through Kenya, ...
Traces the history of the development of the production of the hard fibre, sisal, and shows growth and processing, and ...
Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.
Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in ...
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in ...
Leaving from Swiss (?) airport (Swiss flag flying), followed by views from airplane of coastline. East African local flora: collecting ...
Four couples describe their holidays:- Kariba/Eastern Highlands, Lake Nyasa, Victoria Falls, Lake Tangyanika.
Family life in Tanganyika, including everyday scenes, and the work of white nurses in improving the health and standards of ...
A FILM PROMOTING THE WORK OF THE RSPCA
Amateur. Scenes in Tanga on the coast of Tanzania.
View from bungalow looking over to coast - Pemba Island (?) Black ...
Lumberman's campaign to find and destroy a renegade white man who is leader of ferocious native tribe which terrorises an ...
INTEREST. Celebrations in Dar Es-Salaam to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Emphasises the need for improvement of social conditions and closer integration of all races in East Africa to enable Africans ...
Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ...
1. Views of game in Tanganyika.
2. Dambuilding in Nzega and tribal 'turnout', Tanganyika. 1956-1958.
3. Nzega Agricultural Show, Tanganyika.
4. Film of ...
Shows clearing and harvesting scenes at Kongwa linked with developments in ground nuts scheme.
Programme intended to prompt discussion on East African affairs.
A map of the area introduces a brief demographic and ...
Government information film on East Africa.
A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and ...
In 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown ...
Views of Inyanga Eastern Districts (Southern Rhodesia) and Tanganyika.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. ...
A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.
Coffee cultivation around the village of Marangu on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro.
The Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.
Life in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The film shows the role of the chief in ...
The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; ...
Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received ...
Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
On the cultivation and treatment of sisal in Tanganyika with an emphasis on the importance of the crop for war ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. ...
Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and ...
Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating ...
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - ...