The beginnings of oil exploration in Kuwait. The opening of the first pipeline. General scenes in Kuwait.
Credits (38). Map shows the position of Kuwait (70). CU His Highness Sir Ahmad al-jabir as-Subhah (85). HAS city of Kuwait (103 ...
Traditions and rituals of marriage and dowry in Gold Coast of Africa. Tale of how Arabella has her dowry added to at various stages of her life from birth to marriage.
Amateur footage of the Oxford University expedition to Gambia in 1948. Part 1. Packing the trucks in Oxford and on the road to Southampton. There are scenes on the boat out to Africa, followed by "transhipment onto and up river on board ...
Depicts a voyage on board the London MIssionary Society Ship, the John Williams VI, to the Pacific Islands, including Beru (Gilbert Islands), Apia (Samoa), Suva (Fiji), Fife Bay, Port Moresby and Moru (Papua), Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne (Australia ...
By means of a letter addressed to 'the members, Cinema Clubs for Girls and Boys, Great Britain', a young boy offers an insight into his life at the Wankie Game Reserve in Southern Rhodesia.
A boy's hand opens a letter addressed to ' ...
Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.
Entertainment film for children's cinema clubs.
INSTRUCTIONAL. Aspects of life in Burma.
A riverside community populated by true Burmese, children playing in the water, women washing clothes (21). Shots of river craft (38). A village in Upper Burma, a group of villagers (42). ...
Newsreel coverage of an RAF photographic survey of East Africa.
Diamond mines, Victoria Falls, rain forest and other geographical features.
I. Scenes on board HMS Ocean: individual aircraft run up engines; parked aircraft ranged on after deck; Fairey Firefly Mk 5 is towed aft by small tractor; CU as chockman frees Firefly NF.1 as engine starts up; CU diamond-and-square pilot signaller on ...
The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; the fibres used in rope-making.
Tribal dancing in Africa; witch doctors.
A doctor tells a personal story about an encounter with the disease bilharzia and shows how it can be prevented.
A white doctor's sister and her two daughters have recently arrived from England. The daughters discover a dry fish pond and ...
Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.
Bullock carts arrive at the market of Lakhmijian ('Garden of the River Goddess') near the Assam River where Naga ...
Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is keen to improve and listens to the advice of the agricultural officer, while the other is lazy and ignores all ...
Film about 'one of the prettiest villages in Malaya', which has become a centre for the curing of leprosy.
The film shows the village in detail; people working on the land; how leprosy can be cured; the early ...
At Udi in Nigeria.
Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection eg, the dispensary, a concrete water tank with tap, men clearing and levelling the ground, the arrival of the district officer ...
Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.
The film shows: how people from many races have settled here; the way that the Malays live; the Chinese and their way of life; the role of the Europeans, the ' ...
How Gold Coast villagers benefit from a modernisation of their methods of weaving.
Students trained at Achimota College in Ghana in modern methods of spinning and weaving pass on their knowledge to a village in Togoland where a primitive loom is still in use.
I. "Aktuelles in Kuerze." a. Lord Pakenham gives press conference in Berlin (pledge of non-abandonment); Lindley Fraser of BBC also speaks. b. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, after illness, resumes duties: congratulations from ...
I. Berlin. Centenary commemoration of the March 1848 Revolution; wreaths laid at monument, presentation in theatre, and mass rally addressed by leaders of SDP, CDU and LDP parties.
II. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. ...
I. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. Alpine farmers moving with families and farm animals to higher summer pastures. b. Congress of German radio 'hams' in Bad Lauterberg (demonstrations and exercise; English guests). c. A ...
DOCUMENTARY/PROPAGANDA. Rushes for an unreleased and unfinished production documenting various talented members of the black community in Britain.
207306A Scene 5 Take 1: Black man and white man at a night club join in applause. The ...
US Army Documentary film, using stock footage throughout, on the retaking of the Gilbert Islands (a colony of the British Empire from 1916 until 1976) from Japanese forces in November 1943. The film illustrates the use of naval ...
