India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for an English soldier and the love offered her by a young Sikh, as well as another Anglo-Indian.
Bhowani Junction ...Tarzan to the rescue of the occupants of a plane that has crashed in Africa jungle. He saves them from white hunter who wants to hand them over to African tribe in exchange for ivory.
DOCUMENTARY. The first journey of the commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition to set up a base camp on the Weddell Sea.
RL.1 NOV. 1955: Ship "Theron" leaves London. Leader of party Vivian Fuchs, Edmund Hillary and members of ...
Survey of the peoples, customs and economy of Nigeria.
Travelogue of Nigeria. Includes Kano airport, Kano town - the mosque and market; children memorising the Koran; aerial views of Lagos; cocoa and ground nut cultivation; palm oil ...
BP film featuring footage from Nigeria.
The passing out parade of the first Nigerian women's police. Also shows the policewomen on duty.
The commentator introduces 'this historic parade at the Southern Police ground' from 26 April 1956. The film shows the women marching at Ikeja ...
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The donor Mrs Holmes was born in Arusha, Tanganyika in 1925, and was a Colonial Nursing Sister in Tanga, ...
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The donor Mrs Holmes was born in Arusha, Tanganyika in 1925, and was a Colonial Nursing Sister in Tanga, ...
A variety of images covering aspects of the Royal Visit to Nigeria of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1956.
Production / Donor Details: Mr. Smith (b. 1914) was a railway engineer who worked in Nigeria between 1937 ...
English garden domestic scenes with dogs. Hong Kong harbour & views of houses on hills surrounding city. Confrontation with Chinese soldiers at the boarder High Dam under construction. Japanese county villas. Coach parties standing by ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana. Tour begins in Cairo.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between ...
Aerial film of the city, taken after the Suez operation, is produced as evidence to refute Egyptian "allegations that Port Said is a scene of chaos and devastation."
The film consists mainly of general panoramas (the ...
Ships of the British Home Fleet pay goodwill visits to islands in the West Indies and then join Canadian ships for joint exercise in the North Atlantic.
After some scenes from the outward voyage (including refuelling ...
Egyptian film of the Suez Incident.
Port Said - tourists, government building programme, increased prosperity following upon Suez Canal nationalisation. Egyptian pilots, working for the nation rather than a " ...
Documentary film of the Anglo-French intervention in and around Suez and Port Said in November 1956.
"At the Mediterranean head of the Suez Canal is the town of Port Said. It was the scene of British and French ...
Reel 1: (Tin marking: Assam) Gurkha and Sikh troops with British officers at camp. Floods and storm damage to buildings.
Reel 2: (Tin marking: Ronnie)
Reel 3: (Tin marking: Aero - Supplies and Recce)
Reel 4: (Tin marking: Assam, ...
"MALTA". Aerial shots of clouds and of airfield in Malta with RAF Transport Command Handley Page Hastings aircraft parked on the tarmac.
"NEW DELHI". Shots of buildings including Viceregal Lodge (?) with group strolling in the grounds - one is ...
Kumasi. Buying vegetables on allotments. Forestry work at camp Tinto, Bepu. Opening of the Assizes at Accra. Kumasi market. A murder Trial at Accra Court House. European adults & children at play. A Timber Mill. The Community Center & ...
An Agricultural Show at Winneba. Family footage of a visit to waterfalls.
Open day at a trials farm for different varieties of palm.
Production / Donor Details: Mr. Leeds was an Agricultural Officer in Ghana ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between 1942 and 1955. This ...
Shots of life in the Gold Coast, March to July 1955
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between 1942 and 1955. In 1956 he took up a post as Lecturer in Tropical Agriculture at ...
Includes shots of a harbour, ships and buildings. Street scenes in Zanzibar showing local people, rickshaws, children, policemen and other local life. Shots of the British Embassy, gardens and army bands. It shows a pier being built ...
Various scenes in and around Zanzibar Airport.
