DOCUMENTARY. Tanganyika on the eve of independence. An interview with Julius Nyerere.

DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.

A record of Trinidad at the time of its independence.

DOCUMENTARY. Dr Cheddi Jagan, Prime Minister of British Guiana, talks about the social and racial problems of the colony and its hopes for full independ- ence.

I. The departing High Commissioner, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, reviews the Naval task force supporting the British withdrawal. He is accompanied by Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, C-in-C Middle East Command, who is to return ...

Depicts the building and opening of the London Missionary Society Hospital, Mbereshi, North Rhodesia. Also includes a survey of the work of the hospital and medical work carried out in the district, including the dispensary at Kazembe. LMS mission ...

Nature story about a young colonial girl lost in the African wilderness with her pet bushbaby.

1961

Queen Elizabeth Park - river trip, animals, birds, performence of local tribal dance. Livingstone. Victoria Falls.

An African sunset taken from the air.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a ...

This film includes footage of Kuta Belud airstrip, Kinabulu Mountain, extensive manoeuvres of the Royal Marines in Sabah, and scenes of local people. Some film is shot from a helicopter.

Production / Donor Details: Sir ...

This film shows European families emjoying a day out at a regatta at Jesselton on the west coast of British North Borneo, now Sabah. It includes shots of picnics, swimming and sailing races.

Production / Donor Details: Sir Jack ...

This film includes a short section of Singapore followed by a helicopter flight in Kota Belud. Then a sequence of a Bajau mounted escort for the visit of John Profumo, then Secretary of State for War, and General Hull to British North ...

Wildlife. On the dam at Kabianga. Maize plants.

River floods. Travelling on the back road.

Kenya High school , Nairobi. Tea pickers. Kabiana agricultural centre. Crops.

Sports at Kericho school.

Life in and around Lusaka. Visit of the Queen Mother. Flight home in Comet via Cairo with good shots of pyramids, sphinx, camels etc.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Bryan was an Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia ...

Item 1: Footage of a UNIP (United National Independence Party, Northern Rhodesia) public meeting held in 1961 at Twapia Township, near Ndola on the Copperbelt. Speakers include party president Kenneth Kaunda. Item 2: short sequence ...

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archae ologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who mke friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...

A look at wildlife protection in North and South Rhodesia and the developing national parks.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's five-week tour of the Caribbean, in February 1966.

Comedy set in 1900 in Africa, an ornithologist gives a lantern lecture to the Royal Society, describing his African expedition in search of the rare Oozulum bird.

India, in 1895.

Naval publicity and recruitment film.

The hero, Terry Gardner, is discontented with his job on a building site, where the Welsh foreman restricts him to the menial role of tea boy. Terry decides to join the Navy, ...

The emergency meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, held in Lagos, Nigeria at the invitation of the Prime Ministers, held in Lagos, Nigeria at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Nigeria to seek a solution to the Rhodesian crisis.

A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's cousin, with whom she builds up a world of their own.

Residents of a Cheshire Home in Singapore shown in various activities, especially crafts, e.g., toy-making.

Film illustrating the differences and similarities of adult-children relationships across five different communities: Esher in Surrey, Colne in Lancashire, New Guinea, Botswana and the people of the Himalayan Foothills. The film examines ...

General survey of Kuwait, its oil, its ruler, social services, technological and agricultural advances among the Arab people, and a visit to the Majlis. Opens with an interview with three Kuwait students in Britain.

The co-op officer and the problems he encounters in Sarawak.

A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.

A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados.

Part of Command Activities Series

Notes

Content information copied from SSVC RAF Catalogue of Training Films & Video Tapes 1989

The 1st Battalion of Rhodesian Light Infantry, 3 recruits are followed through basic training.

ACTUALITY. Members of the 1st Battalion, 2nd K.E.O. Gurkhas on active service in Borneo.

An introduction to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, including footage of fauna, flora and the local way of life, and showing the work of London Missionary Society/ CCWM (Congregational Council for World Mission) missions in the islands. The film follows ...

A light comedy romance between a rich American diplomat and a Russian emigré princess from Hong Kong.

The sugar industry in Rhodesia, including:- 1960 Bulawayo trade show, the sugar pavillion and the visit by the Queen Mother, the Chirundu sugar estates, the processes involved in making and refining sugar.

A hunter kills a sacred lion and is cursed by a native chief. Unhealed he returns to Africa and kills the chief, and is healed.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...

Includes various scenes of a family on safari in Tanzania (Tanganyika), showing the scenery that they drive through, the villages & people that they visit and meet and the kind of roads and bridges that they drive along. It has a few ...

About 400' of wildlife, mostly in Uganda National Parks, shot between 1958 and 1966. NOT edited into a coherent film.

Production / Donor Details: John Cleave was ADC Karamoja District for 11 years.

A 275' edited record of the hand-over on Independence. Parade with the Governor handing over the PM Obote and some of the celebratory events that followed.

March-past of the 4th Kings African Rifles.

Multi-racial crowds at ...

A compendium of wildlife and scenes mostly in Uganda's game parks, in those days excellent, and some from Karamoja. 1958-1966. Edited.

Production / Donor Details: John Cleave was ADC Karamoja District for 11 years.

VHS containing various film items illustrating Mr Crouch's life and travels as a British official in Southern Arabia. It shows many aspects of life in the desert, including stunning scenery, military patrols, good shots of the Hadhrami ...

Family shots of Mr Crouch's engagement, wedding & honeymoon in East Africa. Back on duty in Aden, and other holiday footage.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Crouch served as a political officer in the Aden Protectorates and Aden ...

A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to live in Zambia between 1957 and 1964. It examines their position in 1969, the effects of their fundamentalist beliefs in ...

Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.

Travelogue of Hong Kong

Development projects in Mexico, Burundi, Hong Kong and Tanzania illustrate the need or co-operation between develop-ing and developed

A study in social transition, presenting the problem of a young village African who goes to work in the Rhodesian copper mines, but then, unable to come to terms with an industrial environment, feels himself drawn back to the simple ...

A report on the tension between China and Hong Kong and the border clashes of 1967.