A city (Nairobi?), swept, bedecked and decorated in preparation for the visit of The Princess Margaret in 1956. Streets lined, and a fleeting glimpse of the princess in the passing procession of cars. Scenes of the congestion ...
Scenes of the Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Nigeria, including preparations, bunting in streets, crowds. Also scenes of home life.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial ...
Uganda 1956, Malindi, Rome.
Collection in general contains Queen's birthday celebrations, Independence celebrations, family on safari in Northern province, as well as daily life on an upcountry station.
St. Alban's church (Lutheran) on Azania Front.
A street scene showing a shop selling kangas.
Twiga Hotel - the most modern hotel at that time.
The Buddhist temple in Garden Avenue.
The pombe (beer) market.
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Film on the Copper Belt region of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), specifically the interaction of Christianity and commerce in this region and the work of the United Mission to the Copper Belt (in which the London Missionary society was a partner). The ...
The first Bata shoe fashion show at the Raffles hotel, Singapore. Features models from Singapore's Mannequin school and music from Giancarlo's Italian show band.
Tells the story of the erection in the sea of the movable drilling platform at Qatar in the Persian Gulf.
Story of an expedition to drill an exploratory oil well in the jungle of Salawati (New Guinea), to which helicopters are used to fly in the derrick and drilling equipment.
Oilman's schoolboy son, on holiday at Qatar, gets the Christmas present he wants most. 28,000-ton tanker halts in the Persian Gulf to help an Arab dhow. Oil products from the Island of Grain go to a destination in the Norwegian mountains.
Set in a prison camp for men captured in Malaya by the Japanese during World War II, whilst women and children are sent on a series of aimless treks through the jungle.
The following statement regarding the story appears after the opening credits ...
RNAS Hal Far's Air Display, 28th August, 1954.
Ratings of HMS Falcon clean an Avenger in preparation for air display. Rockets are led under the wing of an Attacker; cleaning of Attacker and ...
I. Whirlwind WV.193 (recognition letter E) lands on a cleared patch in the jungle and soldiers unload tractor parts. Using sheers and lifting tackle the soldiers begin assembling the parts. Further ...
The First Lord of the Admiralty's visit to Malta, January 1956.
First Lord with C-in-C Med and members of staff. Arrival on board HMS Birmingham, Ulysses and Saintes; inspection of Guard of ...
The First Lord of the Admiralty's visit to RNAS Hal Far, January 1956.
First Lord arrives, inspects Guard and meets Heads of Departments. He also visits 809 Squadrons (Venoms) and meets ...
I. HMS Fenton acts out the interception of some unseen coastal traffic. CUs of men on the bridge - signalman looking through binoculars, Officer of the Watch, Captain Hart, the Navigation Officer. A flag signal is ...
Chartered aircraft crash in Malta, February 1956: general view of wreckage showing personnel clearing debris.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI ...
RNAS Hal Far - HMS Falcon - holds an open-day fte.
Shots of the fte activities. Dog handling and inspection for the 'best dog' award. A gravity ride in a drop tank converted into "Rocket XM ...
Soldiers from the Gurkha Regiment and the King's Own Scottish Borderers arrive for a Far East defence conference.
HMS Bulwark sails from Grand Harbour at 0900 on Monday 10 December, 1956, to the accompaniment of bands and cheering parties from the other ships. The camera is on HMS Eagle
LS off the ...
Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.
LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...
I. "Personalities in world news." Lady M leaving on a Far East tour.
II. "India Greets Earl Mountbatten' Lord and Lady M visiting India.
III. Lord M officiating at an Indian Polo Association match.
IV. Lord and Lady M stop in Sydney ...
I. "1805-1955 Salute to Nelson." The 150th Anniversary of Trafalgar.
II. "Personalities in the news." Lord and Lady M in Washington.
III. Lord M on tour in Canada.
IV. The Royal Pakistan Navy's Commander in Chief welcomed to Britain ...
RAMC training film made at 33 General Hospital, Hong Kong, in 1956.
This silent RAMC training film demonstrates the IPPR system for managing bulbar palsy which is a great advance over conventional 'Iron lung' methods ...
Propaganda film made by Africans to show the people of Nigeria that leprosy can be cured if early treatment is taken instead of their relying on the witch doctors.
An army captain wanders, wounded, into a Bedouin tent, and is nursed by the Sheik's daughter, whom he marries.He returns to the army as the battle of El Alamein begins. He is killed during an act of heroism and is unable to see his child. Years after ...
Prince Philip talks about his world tour of 1956-57. Scenes in Ceylon, Australia, Antarctica and The Gambia.
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 ...
Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.
Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in 1949 - hence film probably made in 1957 - Lady Limerick laying foundation stone (in 1951) - men's ...
Prince Philip's visit to Gambia; a crocodile shoot in the jungle; presiding at a gathering of Gambia chiefs.
THE SETTING UP OF TWO POWER TRANSMISSION LINES LINKING THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION AT OWEN FALLS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES IN UGANDA>
An African boy and his girl in a small village in Nigeria, and impact of Westernisation due to coming of white man.
A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage raft and travel upstream towards the Murchison Falls, filming the wildlife that they encounter. They spend time ...
Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and his grandfather. Through the lad's sharpness a drug-smuggling racket is finally brought home to the culprit, ...
Story of two men, one white and the other black, raised in friendship all their lives who become enemies during the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya. From a novel of Robert Ruark
Training and welfare at Kariba, the K.A.R. leaves Zomba for Lusaka, Chief Rozani invested, Chilonga mission, University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Lady Benson visits new homecraft centre, ...
Governor General invests Africans, new wing for Zomba hospital, M.L.C.'s visit Chitedze, Machipisa - progressive store keeper,Governor presents football cup, African sculptor honoured, police ...
Documentary on the Caribbean, shot during the making of "Fire Down Below". Tour of Trinidad, sporting activities, carnivals and the Limbo dance performed to the music of a steel band.
Scenes of the 1957 Trinidad Carnival, shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad, 1950-60.
Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and Ghana could be used.
Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on N. Nigeria.
The Governor of Uganda, Sir Frederick Crawford, visits the Lukiko - the Ugandan Parliament.
Adventures of an Irishman in 1890 Africa, who came to join a friend and instead finds his widow, a girl from Marseille, with whom he finally settles down after a series of incidents with both black and white people.
Mobile bank, Lake Nyasa fishermen, hospital guest house, police parade at Lusaka, new Salisbury hospital, farmers day at Msingesi, training nurses at mine hospital, sports at Luanshya. RM 2538
The implementation of the Land Husbandry Act, th people involved and the progress it has had on agriculture and the social economy.
Mission work in Papua New Guinea.
A farmer in the Gold Coast (Ghana) learns how to increase his yield of cocoa through the use of insecticides.
Amateur. Buildings, shops and local life on the island of Zanzibar, East Africa.
View from aircraft landing. Ivory tusks on wagon. Aircraft (East African Airways) on runway. Aerial views from aircraft - clouds and land below. More ...
Compilation of early Spotlights 1955-58 all focusing on the Kariba Dam Scheme from inception to the record floods of 1958.
