The planning and building of the University College of Ibadan and its opening ceremony.

INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop Lagos. The main problems being reclamation of swamp areas provision of residential areas and slum clearance.

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THE ELECTIONS TO SET UP REGIONAL LEGISLATURES IN NORTHERN, EASTERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA; AND THE MEETING OF THE NEW LEGISLATURES AT ƒKADUNA>, ƒENUGU> AND ƒIBADAN>

THE VISIT OF BRITAIN‰S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, ƒOLIVER * LYTTELTON>, TO NIGERIA, 24TH MAY-1ST JUNE, 1952

three parts:- Animal Feeding Men of the Mersey Matadi Palm

Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, one with superstition, one with land conservation and one with education in Nigerian schools. What is being done to ...

Multiple reels on DVD. Family wedding. Journey from South African to Lagos. Flight to Kaduna. Picnic near Kaduna. Kaduna Polo Club. West African Frontier Force parade. Santa Claus: Christmas 1951. Treasury building, Kaduna. ...

"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 ...

Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.

'Alabi, a young man, refuses to be vaccinated by the Sanitary Inspector. A few days later he goes to visit ...

Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.

No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the head of the queue is a Nigerian (16). MS of the Nigerian seated and smiling ...

(1) Ocean voyage home from Pateau in 1939 in M.V. Accra. with visits to Maderia which show the local scenery and people

(2) Morrison family picnic at the lakeside of Jekko Hydro-electric Dam with rowing boat trip. 1950 ...

Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots are made, fired and taken to market for sale. A family buys a pot and takes it home for use.

Production / Donor ...

A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part 1: Northern Nigeria 1953-1965. Part 2: Sarawak 1965-1967: Simangang; Kuching; Miri; Kelebit and also Brunei; ...

'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).

DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.

Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives of the village attending open-air school and learning to read. In his office, the Udi district ...

Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.

A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...

4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.

A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.

A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...

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, ...

The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut from the trees and the beans extracted, fermented and dried in the sun. They are then sent to a central depot and dispatched in bulk to ...

Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and see a fire display.

'Gold Coast government starts Canning Factory' Women cleaning ...

'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads from woodblocks.

'Fiji' A general survey of the islands and industry. AV of ...

INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.

At Udi in Nigeria.

Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection eg, the dispensary, a concrete water tank with tap, men clearing and levelling the ground, the arrival of the district officer ...

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 ...

Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train as nurses, they take examinations, and after 7 years of training she goes to take charge of a four-bed maternity home ...

Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the visits made by the delegates during their stay.

Delegates from Africa arrive at Lancaster House. Inside the ...

DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.

RL.1 Different races and religions in Nigeria to be integrated - The Moslem Northerners ( ...

Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive way of building houses.

'Nigeria - a Modern Method of Palm Oil Extraction' Two men walk to palm ...

A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation of ground-nuts and cattle keeping.

Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.

The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. Intended as one of a group of films made by the CFU showing the large towns of the Empire.

An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of the Nigerian paramount Chief the Oni of Ife.

Credit and main title (34). "LONDON ...

Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows nature of country, customs and religious rituals, crafts, and administrative and health services.

The ...

Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial Office tea party.

'Nigeria - Agriculture in the School' Young boys ...

Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa co-operative society manages the collection and marketing of the produce.

Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer, harvests and ...

The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.

Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...

Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.

'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, Lagos 19/4/1947, the venue of the AAA meeting. Europeans and ...

Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.

(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides a brief and uncritical review of progress made in Nigeria - Lagos converted from a ...

A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, you can prevent the spread of the disease.

Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and the women are shown at their separate labours at home and in the fields. Included are scenes of harvesting, fishing, food ...

The medical work of the Uzuakoli leprosy settlement, and the patients' varied activities.

North-east Nigeria: 1) African village; 2) girl pounding grain; 3) making scar decorations on a boys back; the operation is watched by a crowd of on-lookers; 4) village: mud huts with thatch; 5) wide scenic shots with scattered farmsteads; 6) building ...

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 ...

North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their throats and collecting the blood; 4) a dog being burnt. The background is rocky, hilly scenery; 1945: 5) African woman in a ...

Central or Northern Nigeria: Jos Plateau; children in village and guinea corn; baby bathed on gourds; pounding maize; giving baby a drink; portraits of women and men with face scars; grinding corn with rocks; demonstrating spade and digging; boy with ...

Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages of the 15th Indian Corps' advance through the Arakan peninsula, and parachute supply drops to units in the jungle ...

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 ...