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Uganda attained independence in 1962.
A British student re-visits his sister in Africa. A remembered safari in Uganda is contrasted with a subsequent safari through ...
Ship journey. Diving, underwater footage of fish: puffer fish, rays. Location unclear. Some footage of South Africa: Table mountain. Duke ...
Jinja sailing club? Flora. Owen Falls - water stopped, September 1962
The Uganda authorities' scheme to transfer the white rhino to the Muschison Fall s National Park to save it from ...
Film made by the COI for the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. Shows how African children live, ...
Victoria Nile School sports day. Swimming scenes in swimming pools.
Visit of Queen Mother. Military parade in presence of Governer; Airforce fly past.
Shipboard scene (crossing the line?). Jinja sailing club. On the equator. Baby. Owen falls.
Amateur film of William Butlin on holiday in Africa.
William Butlin is greeted by a European man as he arrives in ...
Amateur film of William Butlin on safari in Uganda, Africa, c.1960.
William Butlin chatting to a middle-aged man with glasses in ...
Amateur film about tradition and change in Africa including footage of a male circumcision ceremony performed by the Bugisu tribe, ...
The history of coffee-growing and a detailed description of the coffee industry in East Africa.
First shown in Nairobi in March ...
European team tackle eradication of the fly which causes Onchoceriasis ('River Blindness'). Habitat of the fly and larvae. Exploration of ...
3 x Edited films. 'Local leave': record of holiday journey through East Africa. Map shows journey: from Uganda through Kenya, ...
Survey of the cotton industry in Uganda.
Amateur film of Karamoja, Uganda, shot by Michael Wigglesworth who worked as a town planner in Uganda when it was ...
Traces the history of the development of the production of the hard fibre, sisal, and shows growth and processing, and ...
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage ...
The Governor of Uganda, Sir Frederick Crawford, visits the Lukiko - the Ugandan Parliament.
Adventures of an Irishman in 1890 Africa, who came to join a friend and instead finds his widow, a girl ...
THE SETTING UP OF TWO POWER TRANSMISSION LINES LINKING THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION AT OWEN FALLS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES IN ...
INTEREST. A travelogue set in Western Uganda, bordering the Congo. View across the Ruwenzori Mountains. The hot, sulphur springs on ...
THE PEOPLE OF THE KARAMOJA DISTRICT OF UGANDA
The Owen Falls Dam, how it was planned and built and how it will supply Uganda w ith electricity. Shows ...
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 ...