9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of the Nile. Esvah barrage/dam. Coming down the Nile from Luxor, views of the banks and boats ...
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in 1929.
Wadi Halfa - climbing up hill; view of Delta (?); crocodile ; different types of snakes and scorpians handled by Egyptians; ruins at Luxor and street scenes and market.
Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; his son and the real Earl are both in love with the same girl, she eventually marries the Earl after the other son is killed in ...
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, Port Sudan, Aden, Fort Jesus, Mombassa and Nairobi. There are also images of Sudanese natives and views of the P&O SS Mooltan. The ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of the railway builders.
Main title (15). A map of the route (44-57). View from Table Mountain (69-79). Pan of Cape Town ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.
The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his mother is killed by a lion, who grows up with the Sheikh's son, Nikitu.
A local woman leaves her baby while collecting ...
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo (1933-1938) covers British Imperial Airways Hannibal, construction of dam at Jabal Awliya, White Nile, Sudan ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Phillips Dixon while serving as hydrographer on HMS Dahlia shows work of locally recruited Sudanese naval auxiliaries, sports at Port Sudan, gunnery practice by HMS Lupin and searching stopped dhow ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part of a mimic war dance (53). Shaping spear shafts by whittling down poles, heating them and passing them through a hole in ...
