Travelogue of Singapore: harbour scenes, street scenes, Chinese quarter, Eurpean buildings, rubber plantation, etc.

AMATEUR. Footage of a journey aboard the SS Maloja from Bombay to Plymouth via, Aden, the Suez Canal, Port Said, Messina, and Gibraltar.

DOCUMENTARY. The rebuilding of Palestine.

rl.1 Primitive life in Palestine - threshing by hand - a camel powers a water wheel. An Arab Muezzin in Jerusalem, the gates, streets and bazaars - the churches and mosques, the Via Dolorosa - the tomb ...

INTEREST. Material apparently shot for PEARLS AND SAVAGES and the JUNGLE WOMAN (?) re-edited and provided with a first person narration to form a story line: a team of explorers search for their lost companions in the New Guinea jungle and escape the ...

The mica industry in India and Britain; notably at the Chrestian Mining company, Domchanch.

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 ...

Malay Regiment, August 1936. Presentation of Swords of Honour to Malay Officers in Kuala Lumpur.

Compilation film in five episodes of the Indian forces on the Western Front, Mesopotamian Front and Palestine Front, 1915-1918.

I. The first reel shows men of the Indian Corps (including British soldiers) in France ...

FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, his past catches up and he goes to prison. Pyke brings up Doubleday's son Charlie Chisholm with his own grandson Willie Pyke ...

AMATEUR FILM. Scenes of 1937 Coronation celebrations in Hong Kong. The aircraft carrier `Eagle' in the harbour. Military parade at Happy Valley. Processions, including Chinese dragons, acrobats, woman on float in traditional costume, ...

AMATEUR FILM. The aftermath of the September 1937 typhoon which struck Hong Kong at 2am. The first ferry sailed at about 9am. Much footage was filmed that morning; the rest a day or two later. Thirteen ships were aground. The large ...

Promotional film for Rhodesian tobacco.

The film opens with shots over tobacco fields, before showing African labourers working on the fields as the commentator explains the process and the suitability of Rhodesia for tobacco growing. The ...

Amateur footage of scenes in and around Mufulira Hospital, Northern Rhodesia.

Jericho Jackson is on run from army after being court-martialled. He goes to African desert, marries and becomes head of Arab tribe. Man imprisoned in his place searches him out for revenge but forgives him.

A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.

The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating "Government Primary School". The boys of the school are roused at 6.30 a.m. by a bugle. The boys get up, wash, sweep ...

INTEREST. A survey of the position of natives in various parts of South Africa.

r.1 Shots of natives in a busy part of Durban. In the background, Paul Robeson sings "My song goes forth" (147). Paul Robeson in view sings the rest ...

Amateur film. Scenes in Samoa; pan from beach to sea showing stilt huts built into the sea; canoe coming into beach with European woman and man; view of landscape from river; view of `vailala' canoes; another European man in a canoe; view ...

Amateur film. Scenes in Samoa; a group of natives standing by huts on stilts, pan to small stack of spears; pan group of natives on river bank; CU `furry' bird with faint stripe markings; natives fording river rapids carrying supplies; pan ...

Life in a town in Rajputana is shown, with shots of temples, markets, busy streets and means of transport. Closing with a sequence of the interest taken by the people of their ruler.

INTEREST.

r.1 Caption explaining that the householder has two wives. At sunrise, he greets each wife in turn outside her sleeping hut. Natives warm themselves around a fire. The cows are milked, some of the milk is poured into a ...

Indian boy sees the dance of the Elephants.

Scenes in the neighbourhood of Kappali, Burma, the site of a S.P.G. mission station.

An African woman is seen at work hoeing in the maize fields with her baby on her back, and an older child accompanies her. They go down to the river to wash the baby, the mother fastens him on her back and they go back to the field.

Adventure melodrama of the search for legendary diamond mines in the heart of Africa.

The 1937 British-Gaumont adaptation of King Solomon’s Mineswas the second film version of H. Rider Haggard& ...

Amateur film of a climbing party in Kashmir.

Team of men with packs walking through mountain pass (11). Snow and mountains, climbing party walking through snow (44). Camp and porters (55). Porters weighing a sheep (62). Cooking a ...

INTEREST. "New Government House - Darjeeling. In Government House grounds". A carriage comes along the drive, escorted by natives. Two women get out of the carriage. The two women and a man talk on the balcony (28). "His Excellency ...

A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip "Come On Steve" in Africa, where they must escape local cannibals.

Lord Sandy, the Commissioner, leaves his African ...

Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.

Reel One of three.

Victoria Falls. The four-day steam-train journey along the Orange River from the Cape to the Falls, via Mafeking ...

Cadbury production, likely including footage from the Gold Coast (Ghana).

AMATEUR FILM.

ARAB LEGION AMMAN. Filmed around April 1937 on the occasion of the annual parade of the Legion. The parade was taken by King Hussein but it is uncertain whether there is no footage of him in this film (30ft).

LAN ...

"Every year on the two days preceding Ash Wednesday, Dominica gives itself up to the spirit of Carnival".

Documentary on life in a desert town.

AMATEUR. A rally of Girl Guides attended by Olave Baden-Powell in Hyderabad.

AMATEUR. Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

Camel race and general views of people and animals (35). Elephants (46). People (53). A food stall (58). Street scene showing stalls and buildings (82). ...

INTEREST. "Darjeeling - summer seat of the Bengal government". A shot of the hill road to Darjeeling. Natives herd sheep. Other natives are dragging a roller along (14). More sheep by the side of the railway track (21). A car, with a ...

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

Travelogue of a trip by the Martin Johnsons through Borneo.

Survey of the production and consumption of milk in US; rapid growth of the winter holiday institution in US; preparations for the 1937 Coronation.

Amateur film. Scenes in Samoa; pan of river; a large group of men standing outside a arge thatched hut; view down the valley over hills; MS of expedition; men lifting sacks and walking down path (100ft). [16mm].

AMATEUR FILM. Dragon boat racing, possibly at Aberdeen

Boats racing, boy beating a drum, people watching from junks and other boats, paper boats on water, women rowing.

Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, harvested and prepared for transport.

A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos in 1937.

The film opens with Africans standing outside a corrugated iron hut, with an open sewer running through ...

INSTRUCTIONAL. How a Rhodesian African makes fire.

An African sits by a tree and carves a notch into a soft stick. C.U. the carving. Placing the stick between both feet he inserts a hard stick into the notch and twists it rapidly ...

A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

The film introduces Kinga's home - huts in a clearing - before showing Kinga and his family, who are at work making bread, collecting wood and ...

DOCUMENTARY - made as a coronation souvenir (George VI) and traces the story of the British Empire from 1895 to the proclamation of George VI as King. Events are shown in strict chronological order.

Rl.1 St. James's Palace, December ...

The town of Darjeeling, showing its life and work. Re-edited material from DARJEELING (Secrets of India series).

Censor certificate (18). Main and series title and credit (50). A map of India, Darjeeling is shown ...

Amateur film. "The record of two visits to the estate of Daruel Tobacco Plantations Limited at Segama, Lahad Datu" in Sabah, Malaysia in the north of the island of Borneo. "Daruel Bay. Lahad Datu - the port through which everything must ...