A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.
A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to make a delivery. Pan across the buildings in a small village. Exterior of the general store, with members of the ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where the cocoa pods are plucked from the tree trunks, the beans extracted and sorted by natives. Commentary explains ...
A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.
Over footage of a beach, scrolling titles introduce the film. 'The colonies are the responsibility of the British ...
Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.
The High Command was Thorold Dickinson’s first directorial venture, and the first and only production of Fanfare Pictures, an offshoot of Associated Talking Pictures. ...
An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult audiences in the Gold Coast.
The film's title appears on a blackboard, as an African instructor ...
I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to six major cities of India. II. "SIR SULTAN AHMED RESIGNS FROM INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING". On the eve of ...
I. "NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" Touring members of the National Defence Council meet Indian troops, the "good soldiers", in the Middle East. The Honourable Syed Miran Mohammed Shah ...
I. "WEST AFRICAN'S ROLE IN INDIA'S DEFENCE" West African troops, "toughened by the toughest climate in the world", arrive in Burma for jungle warfare training and assault courses. They then fight the enemy for six months ...
Ceremonies surrounding the installation of the Queen Mother of Enyeresi.
The building up of the cocoa-processing industry in the Gold Coast.
A farmer in the Gold Coast (Ghana) learns how to increase his yield of cocoa through the use of insecticides.
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of locusts in huge cloud attacking trees and almost blackening out the light. Tribal gathering in flat scrub ...
Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country and carry this away in a long column. Large group of men and teenage boys work on the construction of an earth embankment in ...
The correct method of harvesting, fermenting and grading of cocoa.
In the jungle around the town of Tamandu, Burma, a field hospital has been set up to look after casualties from 82nd West African Division wounded in ...
WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.
Comedy. Mr. Mensah entrusts the building of his house to his irresponsible nephew, who wastes all the money and materials. The situation is retrieved when Mr Mensah takes part in a government scheme that provides locals with free building ...
Advertising. Film showing the manufacture of Cadbury's products - cocoa, chocolate and 'Bournvita'.
Rl.1 Credits (54). PROLOGUE. The night watchman of Cadbury's Bournville factory carries out his rounds (278). He returns to his ...
Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.
After briefly outlining the history of the Northern Territories, the film shows the installation of a new chief in ...
Scenes from the visit of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward, Duke of Windsor) to Africa in 1925. The film charts the Prince's journey from Kumasi to Accra, before showing ...
Traditions and rituals of marriage and dowry in Gold Coast of Africa. Tale of how Arabella has her dowry added to at various stages of her life from birth to marriage.
The opening ceremony of Takoradi harbour by the Rt. Hon. J.H. Thomas on 3rd April 1928. Mr Thomas and the Governor, Sir Ransford Slater talk to Gold Coast chiefs. Others present are Lady Slater, Sir Robert McAlpine, Sir Joseph Byrne, and ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens with a map of Africa with the Gold Coast specially marked. Details are then given of an experiment being carried on in ...
Semi-fictionalised film showing the rle of the local council in Kojokrom, a town in the Western Region of the Gold Coast (Ghana).
The film opens with a schoolteacher announcing the council election results. Mr Addo, ...
Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and members of the Wagenia, Acholi, Sesi, Teffik, Juruba, Mendi and Kroo tribes - Jomo Kenyatta, later an ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are unloaded from the lorry. The beans are stirred, tipped from a sieve into a tray and then put into ...
"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 ...
Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and chocolate, to the paternal attitude of the company towards their staff.
RL 1: Titles and credits (44). "THE ...
The enlarging and improving of Takoradi Harbour in the Gold Coast.
Lime production on the Gold Coast and the manufacture of lime juice.
The film opens with shots of locals collecting fruit from the trees in their baskets and then carrying the baskets on their heads. The commentator explains that ...
Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and Ghana could be used.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. First, 'officers and men of the great West African Frontier Force' arrive at Liverpool on the liner ...
The wealth which its timber brings to the Gold Coast.
'The Port of Accra- capital of the Gold Coast and Headquarters of one of the Fry Buying Agencies.' Viewed from sea-level two rowing boats approaching large ship. 'Port Officials come aboard' similar shot with single boat approaching ship, ...
How Gold Coast villagers benefit from a modernisation of their methods of weaving.
Students trained at Achimota College in Ghana in modern methods of spinning and weaving pass on their knowledge to a village in Togoland where a primitive loom is still in use.
The industrial development of West Africa (probably Gold Coast and Nigeria) under British rule.
West Africa before it was developed; forests (28-43); swamps (45-52); deserts (55-60). Men crossing a river by a tree branch (66-78). Two ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan campaign, 1944-1945.
No action footage. Men of the 81st Division under Major General Loftus Tottenham, ordered to ...
Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife - probably on a Thomas Cook tour)
Drama about an overseer of a rubber plantation.
Opening with a map of the area, the film depicts aspects of village life as local women carry baskets and grind millet. The living quarters of the family are shown, while a compound floor is hardened. There follows a more detailed description of the ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George VI.
The King is "a symbol of unity" who links the Empire in "geography, history and destiny" and also an ...
Story of the maiden voyage of HMS Ashanti, a Tribal Class destroyer, to visit the Gold Coast to "show herself to the tribesmen of the country."
Brief introductory history of the Ashanti kingdom, now an enlightened ...
