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    Great Britain

    Drama-documentary about a Methodist mission founded in 1816 in Colombo, which helps young tea-plantation workers to learn new skills.

    Reel One.

    Scenes of a tea plantation. Women picking and sorting leaves, men weighing the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. How cacao beans are cultivated in Trinidad.

    Credits (26). Shot of the coastline of Trinidad, which lies off the north coast of South America (48). The cultivation of cacao, known in manufactured form as cocoa, is the ...

     
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    Great Britain, Rhodesia

    A young man leaving his village to work in copper mines of Northern Rhodesia; emphasis on contrasts between traditional and modern life.

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

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    BURMA FRONT. COMMANDO LANDING FOR OPERATION AT MAUNGDAW JAP CRUISER DESTROYED BY BOMBING OUR UNITED EFFORTS FOR VICTORY EMPIRE CONFERENCE. DOMINION PREMIERS HERE FOR ...

     
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    USA

    Investigation of a series of murders of people who have paid into a fund to go to the one who survives.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film. `Once upon a time Africa was a land of Pagan enchantment': landscape; wildlife; village. `Civilisation': white man puts on a tie. `With manifold blessings': black man reads newspaper and looks at cinema poster of `Kay ...

     
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    DREAMING 1944

    Great Britain

    Bud Flanagan plays an army private who gets concussion which results in three dreams: 1st - only white man in African district; 2nd - as a jockey at Ascot; 3rd - at Stage Door canteen.

     
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    Great Britain

    A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.

    The film opens with shots of traditional rural life - the landscape, cows, horses ploughing the fields, blossoming trees, sheep and finally ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the significance of the architecture is emphasised in a commentary set above an Indian score. Seen in the film are paddy fields ...

     
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    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.

    An RAF Avro Lancaster, fitted with ...

     
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    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Reel 1: Hawker Hurricanes airborne and taxiing at beach airstrip 'Hove' on the Arakan coast. Men undressing behind Hurricane (later shot from reverse angle). Hurricane being ...

     
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    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas Dakota aircraft being unloaded ...