Trimming logs and moving them to the edge of a hill so they can slide down. Pushing them over a 400ft cliff, at the bottom of the hill, towards the river. Road making on steep slope at Thangi. Filmmaker's wife, "as cinema heroine", up steep slope with ...

Amateur film. City scenes in Calcutta.

Travelogue of Malaya.

Government-sponsored film showing the history, buildings and industries of Malaya.

Extensive titles outline the history of the region, under Portuguese, Dutch and British rule, while an animated map shows ships converging ...

Main Title. "THE IRREPRESSIBLE MR LEVINE, AMERICA'S MILLIONAIRE AMATEUR AIRMAN 'TAKES OFF' FROM CRANWELL WITH BRITISH PILOT - CAPT HINCHCLIFFE". Close shots of the pilot and passenger; shots of the aeroplane taking off and ...

The opening ceremony of Takoradi harbour by the Rt. Hon. J.H. Thomas on 3rd April 1928. Mr Thomas and the Governor, Sir Ransford Slater talk to Gold Coast chiefs. Others present are Lady Slater, Sir Robert McAlpine, Sir Joseph Byrne, and ...

Amateur film. Europeans and Indians at Puri, India.

Sheila Mary's first summer at Barang camp. Bedded down for her siesta. Watching Debtas's band. Peter the dog does a trust exercise with a biscuit on it's nose. Crossing Lingodan rickety bridge and screes. Baspa gorge. Pram and servants on road. ...

A travelogue with a heavy emphasis on Kodak goods - arriving at the port, kodak goods being unloaded and then carried through Indian and Chinese quarters. The staff at Kodak's Singapore office are shown.

School children celebrate Empire Day (43ft).

Pulley system with yaks walking downhill to pull sleepers up it. Processes in the building of a 2 mile 'wet slide' to transport the sleepers where the river is too fierce - planning the alignment, carpenters shaping the trestles, and bits of the ...

Amateur film.

Girls school run by missionaries - shots of Miss Attlee teaching the girls English games with African actions (e.g. "This is the way we dig our garden" instead of "wash our hands"); Miss Marshall and the girl guides ( ...

Leaving Smila, Scot's Kirk and English Church. On the Hindustan-Tibet road: preparing mules and loading up, bazaar scenes and native life. Near Narkanda, local farmer ploughing with oxen. Rampur bazaar scenes: buildings, features and locals. Crossing ...

PROPAGANDA. Appeal by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for funds to continue its work on Tristan da Cunha. The film consists of material shot during the visit to the island by The Quest in 1922, previously released in ...

The industrial development of West Africa (probably Gold Coast and Nigeria) under British rule.

West Africa before it was developed; forests (28-43); swamps (45-52); deserts (55-60). Men crossing a river by a tree branch (66-78). Two ...

Compilation film of events in Palestine, autumn 1917 to spring 1918.

2nd Battalion, the Black Watch, led by its pipe band along a desert road. "The Australian Camel Corps" (actually pack camels ...

Compilation film of events in Arabia, autumn 1917 to spring 1918.

A portrait still of Colonel T E Lawrence. The embarkation of supplies and sheep on SS Ozarda at Port Said, the journey to Jidda, ...