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  • INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 70 (14/7/1944)
    INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

    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 ...

     
  • Morrison Collection: 1: Jekko Falls Hydro Electric Scheme : Pts 1 & 2 1937-1938
    Morrison Collection

    Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric Scheme from beginning to end, including shifting earth, rocks etc., drilling, building the foundations of the dam, bringing ...

     
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    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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and hired labourer, successfully harvests and sells his cocoa beans.

    The commentator introduces Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in five weeks against top English amateur sides.

    The African players, having arrived on 29 August 1949 in Liverpool, ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British District Officer and a tin miner leads to war.

    The film introduces the main protagonists. Yilkuba, the witch ...

     
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    Great Britain

    "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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.

    The film opens with shots of traditional rural life - the landscape, cows, horses ploughing the fields, blossoming trees, sheep and finally ...

     
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    Great Britain

    'Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an ...

     
  • WEST AFRICA WAS THERE
    GB

    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 ...