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    Great Britain

    "This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.

     
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    SMALLPOX 1950 enhanced entry

    Nigeria

    Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.

    'Alabi, a young man, refuses to be vaccinated by the Sanitary Inspector. A few days later he goes to visit ...

     
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    THIS MODERN AGEGreat Britain

    The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.

    The film begins by offering a historical consideration of the three territories. First, Bechuanaland, which is 'mostly ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Kenya. The work of District teams in combatting disease and increasing food supplies. Town refuse and animal manure are made into valuable compost (instead of providing breeding grounds for flies). Shows the use of compost in growing ...

     
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    Kenya

    A celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.

    "The City Council of Nairobi presents Kenya Capital". (27). Credits (78). Sir Richard Woodley, the Charter Mayor, seated at a desk relates the history of Nairobi ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken from rickshaw. "The Colossi of Memnon" "Assouan - Nile steamer to Abu-Simbel" "Wadi-Halfa" "Sudan ...

     
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    TEMBA 1950

    Great Britain, South Africa

    Advertising film. Shows the life of an African family in the Transvaal.

     
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    Great Britain

    A Ugandan family re-organizes itself to increase its output of murram (hard gravel) blocks.

    The film opens with a shot of blocks and then shows an African man working on their production in a small hole in the ground. With his wife ...

     
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    TSETSE 1950

    SECRETS OF LIFEGreat Britain

    INTEREST. Tsetse fly and attempts to curb its effect in Africa.

    Credits (40). General views of African scrubland south of the Sahara - cattle grazing (92). Herdsman with herd (108). Native men and children in ...

     
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    Nigeria

    Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.

     
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    INTERNATIONAL REVIEWGreat Britain, USA

    No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the head of the queue is a Nigerian (16). MS of the Nigerian seated and smiling ...