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

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, ...

Steampast in line ahead by ships of the Royal Navy, Commonwealth Strategic Reserve, and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Reel One. Aerial LSs of the steampast. Spectators stand on the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

A profile on Dominica.

A report on Anguilla, with Robert Bradshaw and Sir Frederick Phillips.

Footage from Mr Day's time as Senior Political Officer in the South Arabian Federation between 1964 and 1967.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Day entered HMOCS as Political Officer, Western Aden Protectorate, in 1961. From 1964-67 he ...

Various scenes in The Gambia

Production / Donor Details: Mr Dudley joined the Colonial Office after WW2 and was sent to Nigeria, initially to carry out a land survey assessing the damage done to agricultural land by tin mining ...

DOCUMENTARY. The build-up of British forces in the Gulf States.

The commander of a British platoon in Bahrain, Lt. Pattinson, explaining the reasons for Britain's presence to a group of new arrivals (13). Titles. A military band ...

During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, her charge and a callow subaltern. Baker hopes to escape by river to Khartoum but the wreckage of ...

Survey of the police work in the Borneo jungle of the British forces against the Indonesian confrontation.

THE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS ON THE ƒRHODESIA> ƒTOBACCO> INDUSTRY

Army Documentary film recording some of the projects undertaken by the Royal Engineers in the Arabian Peninsula during the mid 1960s. These include the road constructed from Dhala to Aden, including a description of the difficulties encountered, ...

HMS Fenton is one of two minesweepers re-commissioned for passage to England after five years in reserve at Aden. The object of the exercise was to prove that such vessels could be brought ...

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, ...

Life in the Falkland Islands and the fears of the islanders that they might be annexed by Argentina.

Film of the Falls Patrol in British Guiana.

Footage of the patrol and one of the soldiers talking about it: the adventure, challenge and change it provides; the boat trip and its interest; back onto the land, which ...