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Uganda attained independence in 1962.
Amateur film. The first section of the film includes shots of giraffes, elephants, a river with raging torrents, flowers, the ...
Annual ceremony of dancing to mark male and female circumcision ceremonies of the Bugusi-Sebei tribe in Uganda. The ceremonies lasted ...
Dramatisation of the Bakiga people's attempt to cultivate the Kigezi district of Uganda, and their encounter with the Pygmies.
The camera ...
Story of adventures of group of white people in building railway from Mombasa to Uganda in 1880.
Travelogue of Uganda showing the wildlife.
Guides and Brownies greet and march past Lord Rowallan who takes the salute.
Shot in Uganda, this film deals with the activities of Makerere College, which provides higher education for Africans from all ...
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 ...
A Ugandan family re-organizes itself to increase its output of murram (hard gravel) blocks.
The film opens with a shot of ...
A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
Scenes of the Mukama of Toro and chiefs at Fort Portal. People on the shores of Lake Edward, Katwe and ...
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received ...
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. ...
Scenes in an African guides camp.
DOCUMENTARY. A record of the accession of Mutesa II in Kampala, 19th-20th November 1942.
Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation ...
AMATEUR FILM. Ripon Falls (now damned); native fisheries on Lake Victoria (canoes made of long boards sewn together). The Uganda ...
INTEREST: Amateur film shot along lower reaches of Nile in Uganda: The Nile: shots taken from boat on river of ...