Amateur film covering Bagnold's explorations of the Libyan desert, 1930 and 1932.
r.1 Names of the exploration party and a map showing route of first reconnaissance of the Great Sand Sea in 1929 (15). Map of route taken to Uweinat ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces in the late 1920s and 1930s. Archive ...
Footage of wildlife at an African waterhole, and of a tree hide.
"London, Houses of Parliament, `cameos of the Caribbean' Way out on the Spanish main, where Drake and his sea-dogs chased buccaneers... Lie those sun-kissed isles of romantic beauty, the lovely Leewards Islands. `London to Leewards' a ...
Amateur film.
Sign, reading H.M.S. Orion, parade and scouts lining up for march. Woodpecker on tree. Sea-shore and team paddling. Teatime in the camp. Crab. Sea-shore. Party of women walking. Grass hut. Fields. View from boat. ...
Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden party setting, greeting people and being greeted. 2. Gandhi getting out of a car in an Indian street. 3. A close-up of ...
INTEREST. Boys at Bisley School during Empire Day celebrations and performing gym exercises.
[Film broken at the beginning]. "Lt Col Sir Archibald WEIGALL KCMG Inspects the Rank". The Colonel walks down rows of boys and chats to ...
Light aeroplanes at Heston aerodrome (75ft).
Filmed in Kenya, footage of a military parade including soldiers marching and the regiment's mascot.
Troops parading. A large residence with bi-plane flying overhead and around bay.
Big game hunting in India.
Amateur film showing native dances, markets and race meetings in Nigeria.
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya
Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). "Do you know that the sugar you put into your coffee cup is an Empire product? Sugar cane is a member of the ...
Fictionalised documentary of evangelist Mott Keislar and his physician wife in Lahore and how they teach and treat local people.
Personal film of Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India from the early to mid-1930s.
Brief shot of moving steam train. Indian Maharajah in finery, horses led by servants with plumed headdresses. Indians in uniform followed by European ...
Amateur film of Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia: the mine, housing for Africans and Europeans. Testing water supply.
A settler arrives at Mombasa and proceeds by lorry to his future home. The film shows his first herd of cattle, horses, and sheep, and his first harvest.
'The prospective settler lands at Mombasa' and the film then follows his ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his mother is killed by a lion, who grows up with the Sheikh's son, Nikitu.
A local woman leaves her baby while collecting ...
Cinemagazine on cocoa production in Tobago.
"Photographics Present...Cocoa". A waterfall in Tobago, in the British West Indies. The history of the cocoa bean. Men knock pods from trees, women put them ...
"IN INDIA TODAY: GANDHI : STORMY PETREL OF INDIAN POLITICS; COMPLETES 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' MARCH TO BREAK SALT LAWS, UNINTERFERED WITH BY AUTHORITIES" Shots of the procession, including (30-41, 56-76 & 88-98) shots of Gandhi ( ...
Empire Premiers, in Britain for the Imperial Conference witness a tank display (94ft).
Amateur film of MCC cricket tour. War memorial. Cricketers visit Rhodes memorial. Percy Chapman filming (48). Open-air dinner party for c.70 people (85). Countryside. Victoria Falls (130). Ornate huts. Waterfall (168). Memorial Falls (216 ...
