A description of the significant changes which have occured in tropical Africa during this century. The contrasts between rural and urban life are shown, and the effects of European influence and the problems of independence. Modern ...
Includes: Nairobi: independence for Kenya.
Holidays in the Caribbean: Bermuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Antigua, Tobago and Trinidad.
Garden Suburb - progress at Arcadia. Federal Swimming Championships - scenes. Forests of the Future - N. Rhodesia Forestry Department at work. War Against the Fly - Tsetse Research station at Lusulu.
For the Farmer - composite item regarding farming.
Livingstone's Game Park - scenes.
Pioneer Town - Fort Victoria.
Spotlight on Kariba - scenes.
Mini-Mining - model of copper mine.
Building Forum - exhibition of building materials.
Castle in the Bush - scenes of the Lundazi settlement.
Old-Timers Hit the Road - Shell vintage car rally.
John Hooper weighs up the tobacco industry in Rhodesia - interviews with farmers and black workers about the working relationship; the sorting and grading of the product; auctions in Salisbury; interviews with the auction floor manager ...
John Hooper interviews the General Manager of Bulawayo Railways about economics and freight from the north of the country to the ports; talks to the Operations Manager; mechanised workshops; reconditioning wagons; changing from steam to ...
Keeping the Standard High - Kutsaga Tobacco Research Station. Piscatorial Taxidermist - Ken Morris on work on a tiger fish. Service By the Ton - Rhodesia Railway steam loco having a service at Bulawayo Motive ...
Textile Town - scenes of Gatooma and its fire brigade. New Interests in Stone - Rhodesian gem and mineral society. Bashing Through the Bush - Ndola moror rally. RM 2497
Barging up the Zambezi - construction of new barge.
Dogs on Duty - police dog training.
Pride of the Copperbelt - Ndola's airport and rail centre.
Parts to Spare - motor scrap yard.
New Shaft at Roan - Roan Antelope copper mine.
A Livingstone Industry - cane and steel furniture.
Jubilee Run - diamond jubille train run from Gwelo to Selukwe, people in period dress.
George Scott examines Rhodesia - stresses the little relative impact of the white community, possible for Africans to compete with whites for jobs, amplifies the segregation which still exists, politics and African involvement in ...
The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.
VHS of a series of still photographs with an accompanying written script. 1. Shots of Zanzibar, including places and buildings of note.
2. Shots of Pemba.
3. Shots of Dhows.
4. Royal Occasions: significant events between 1956 and 1963 ...
Documents the moving of people from the Batonka valley on the Zambesi River because of the plans to build the Kariba Dam, and their situation 10 years on.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia ...
I. Guildhall welcome ceremony for the Queen and Prince Philip on their return from their 3-month tour of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. Among those present are Macmillan, Duncan Sandys, the Lord Mayor of London and Commonwealth representatives. ...
I. The waters of the Zambezi pour through the floodgates of the Kariba Dam in Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
II. Belgian Grand Prix takes place in pouring rain: called off after 6 laps. Jim Clark wins; shots of him and Graham Hill.
III. The ...
Film showing the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on location in the New Territories, Hong Kong.
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, marching with their mascot and transporting goods across land in Chinese ...
Edited report of 1st Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles patrolling river by native motor launch, names and photographs of wanted terrorists in briefing room, briefing prior to Wessex helicopter dropping soldiers into jungle clearing, bringing in captured ...
Amateur film shot by Major Allan Cameron of 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers when serving at Headquarters 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade records scenes of military and local life, including contrast between Chinese shanty towns and wealth, ...
Trip to Murchison Falls, Uganda, and to Malindi via Mombasa.
1962: Various shots Nairobi. The Annual Royal Kenya Agricultural Show.
Nairobi decorations & Independence Day ceremonies 12/12/63, with Jomo Kenyatta, Ian Macleod (Colonial Secretary), and the Duke of Edinburgh.
1964: visit ...
Independence celebrations in Nairobi in December 1963. Visitors from the local reserves arriving in numbers and Mr Rees and his children dressed for the occasion. The Embu drummers and dancers performing on the occasion of a special ...
