Wild life in Lake Manyara National Park. Forest Fire. Village street. Local boys cutting grass with machetes. Mother elephant with calf. Elephant herd behaviour. Wildebeest herd. Ploughing openland by oxen team with European helping. ...
Princess Margaret's visit to Tanga and Moshi. Agricultural Shows at Moshi, Morogoro, Pare(?), Njombe. Various district independence celebrations.
Shots of Coffee, and Farmers' Study tour of the Southern Highlands. Also Pyrethrum
Royal National Park, Nairobi, and Samburu Game Reserve.
Bush life in Kenya: birds and wildlife.
Horse Racing meeting. The Race Course with its specators and the Race.
Croquet lawn at rural bungalow. Model airplane flying.
Father Christams dressing himself up & making a visit. Horse jump training.
Car Race ...
Shots of wildlife, Nakuru Bird Sanctuary, and taking a driving test.
Trip to Murchison Falls, Uganda, and to Malindi via Mombasa.
British domestic social life in grounds of large British settler houses. High Waterfall with surrounding countryside. Kenyan Plateau with Equator line sign poss. Naivasha Yacht Club with Clubhouse and sailing activities on Lake ...
Hydro Electric scheme reservoir dam with water jet shooting out from sluice. Group of young African girls with their books visiting the dam.
British teacher shows party games to young African children seated in garden with their mothers. Arrival of Father Christmas with his sack of presents. Children play "Ring o Roses"
3 small African children play with an old tyre in an African meadow.
College life for African young people. Out door needlework classes. Girl Guide meetings. Indoor tea party. Display of puppets.
Young people digging out fountains for buildings. Visit by Blood Transfusion Service and First Aid ...
African groom and bride in white at their church wedding and subsequent large family reception party. Birthday party for small African girl.
African Society Wedding with train of bridesmaids, military band and tiered wedding ...
An enquiry into taboos, particularly sexual, around the world including scenes of: a bare-breasted Fijian night-club dancer, street scenes in Helsinki, a festival parade in Nagoya and lepers receiving holy communion at a leprosarium in India.
Amateur. Hindu religious festival in Singapore.
Women in saris. Crowds gathering. Children with balloons. Some women with flowers in their hair. Holy man bearing a metal frame covered in feathers. Women going to Hindu shrine to pray. ...
Film showing an army catering section at a camp in British Guiana.
Footage of the soldiers cooking is followed by shots of the canteen; the food being dished out; the site and the area around it; swimming; collecting ...
Aerial MS of HMS Fife (D.20) steaming at sea, with HMS Tiger in the background - the camera aircraft circles across Fife's bows. Cut to Tiger where various of the negotiators are gathered on the quarterdeck - Sir ...
A brief history of telephones worldwide, with a special look at coomunications in Rhodesia.
Documentary. The Patonka tribe, their family structure, work methods are shown as they prepare to move to the highlands. The building of the Kariba Dam means the village will be flooded; preparation for the move, building a new village and the ...
Outline of the development of Rhodesia, including its industrial development, improvements in education and health service, and the good transport facilities.
The problems faced by British authorities in trying to cope with the increasing population of Hong Kong.
Three men doing different kinds of work done by Christian missionaries in Kenya. First man is a missionary doctor on safari in coastal region. Second man, Peter Kittell, running a model farm in Kenyan highlands. The third man, Charles Tett ...
Army Recruiting film aimed at potential members of the Royal Signals. The film describes the three routes of entry available, shows recruits engaged in drill, physical training and weapons training and goes on to look at the specialist technical and ...
Actuality: uncut footage, posibly out-takes of events during and surrounding the filming of "Thunderball" in the Bahamas.
Shots of large props including Harrier jet(?) being built; speedboat which separates from larger cruiser. Air ...
Short documentary about RAF Transport Command's regular flights to the Far East narrated by (and starring) Jon Rollason.
Reporter John Rollason, not an RAF man, is booked on a Transport Command Comet to Singapore, ...
Short film with a recruiting aim stressing the importance of the technical grades in the Royal Navy.
The role of the technician in the modern navy is stressed, along with illustrations of various areas: command and ...
AFRICAN BOYS MAKING WHEELED WIRE TOYS
An interview between David Attenborough and the Samoan graduate student who later became Dr.Fanaafi Ma'ia'i discussing some of the issues raised in Traditional Samoa Film No. 7. The Samoan lady gives her views on Dr. Margaret Mead.
RAF film on the aircraft and role of Transport Command.
The film shows how aircraft such as the Bristol Britannia, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, De Havilland Comet and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were ...
"The world's loneliest inhabited island" filmed during the Gough Island Scientific Survey in 1955-56. Geography, history, economy, etc.
Regimental record, with detailed commentary by commanding officer, of parade by 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment in Aden in presence of Princess Alexandra of Kent, Sir Charles Johnston (Governor of Aden) and Air Marshal Sir Charles ...
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 ...
Dramatised documentary using a story about faulty navigational radar to illustrate RAF life and work in the Far East.
RAF Staging Post at Gan in the Maldives discovers a malfunction in the CRDF (Cathode Ray Direction ...
Information film about the benefits of the national radio service in Sarawak.
The film opens with a performance by the Kuching Constabulary, a popular attraction in the capital. Radio permits this music ...
Considers the history and economies of the 3 parts of the federation, the differences between the races, and interviews with Dr. Banda and Roy Welensky.
Hong Kong under the personal supervision of Mr. Norman F.C. Li. Grateful thanks to Mr Wu Chung for meeting the cost of the film the work of the British Red Cross Society Hong Kong Branch on the 100th anniversary of the BRCS and the 12th Anniversary of ...
Record of the mutual ties which bind Britain and Malta.
Compareda and contrasted, Salisbury - Rhodesia and Salisbury - Great Britain.
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 ...
State Visit (post Independence) by Emperor Haile Selassi. Grant of Independence; the arrival of official guests and the celebrations, Dr Banda opening Dam. Tribal dancing. Touring expedition up country by the author showing ...
Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archae ologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who mke friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...
Life of Mr and Mrs Twiss in Gold Coast in mid-50's. Swimming, tennis, friends, Xmas in the tropics (Nativity play), the beach, sports day. Mini and Landrover cars in use, interiors and exteriors of European homes, some scenes of African ...
The last meeting of the Board of Admiralty, the Army Council and the Air Council before the three services came under the control of the Ministry of Defence. The first Defence Council meeting and unified operations in practice in Aden.
USS Nautilus enters Malta.
USS Nautilus (571) enters Malta and secures to a buoy. The cameracraft approaches the American submarine for CUs.
Notes
Technical: a print of unusually ...
An area in Swaziland, adjacent to the Great Usutu River, was found to be ideal for planting a vast forest of quick pines. After intensive research a pulp mill of a new type which does not feed any effluent into the river was erected and put into ...
A documentary looking at the transfer of the Batonka people of the Zambezi valley to new homes because of the creation of Lake Kariba. It starts off with footage shot in 1956 and looks at the Batonka tribe, with scenes of village life and a ...
Deals with a group of misfit soldiers of a British garrison near Singapore during the guerilla uprisings of the early 1950s. Based on the novel by Leslie Thomas.
