Designed primarily to inform the Nigerian public of what is involved in the exploration for and production of oil in their country. Portrays the work of a seismic exploration party in the difficult swamp country of the Niger Delta.

The Ministerial procession at Lagos with the appointment of Nigeria's first Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on the eve of the independence of the country, 2nd April 1960. Followed by dinner given by the House of Council hosted by the ...

The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via waterworks - interior and exterior shots, also filtering beds and the reservoir.

An interview with Dr. Thomas Adierian Lambo>, the head of the Aro Hospital for nervous diseases in western Nigeria.

The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.

A pageant in Kano, Nigeria.

An information film on Nigeria, illustrating the advantages of a deliberate and orderly progress to independence.

The film provides a brief survey of national educational and health programmes, Nigerian produce such ...

The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The majority of the film is shot during independence celebrations held in Maiduguri, Bornu Province, ...

Nigerian troops on parade; family scenes.

Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial service in Nigeria after WW2.

RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.

A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...

Scenes in Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and the UK, 1957-69

Production / Donor Details: The film was shot by Terence Leslie William Windle, private Secretary to Sir John Rankine in Nigeria from 1951 to 1958 and a District Officer in ...