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    Amateur film. People in swimming pool aboard ship. Ships going through Suez Canal. Venice. Walking around bombed out city (Shanghai?). View from high story building across Shanghai. Interior of boat; people waving from boat. Gibraltar - scout ...

     
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    Reel 1: (Can marked: Japan 1934) Views of mountainous landscape, shrines, Japanese lady in kimono and Japanese men in western dress, temples (Kyoto?) and lake scenes.

    Reel 2: (Can marked: China) Street scenes in Chinese city, showing market, ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage: Shillong races, golf, picnics (attended by Lord and Lady Willingdon) and market scenes.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.

     
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    Amateur film showing street scenes in Simla, the Simla Kalka railway, a mule train on the road to Tibet, street scenes in Lahore, the Araurkali Bazaar, and the Badshahi Mosque. The Shalinar gardens; farewell party to the Governor, Sir Geoffrey de ...

     
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    Amateur footage of scenes in and around Simla - street scenes and rickshaws; Viceroy (Earl of Willingdon?) at Lahore station. Probably shot by Col. Taylor, Chief Engineer to North Western Railways, Lahore.

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

     
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    A film prepared by the Boy Scouts of Singapore in cooperation with Messrs. Kodak Ltd. Aspects of the city of Singapore, concentrating on the port area, street life and its multi-racial character.

     
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    Great Britain

    Personal film footage of Singapore and Penang, malaysia, in c.1932.

     
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    USA

    Four American sailors visit a club and meet Singapore Sue.

     
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    Amateur footage of scenes between Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai; remains of war-damaged buildings?; Shanghai.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of various scenes in Malaysia.

    Devil dancing in Singapore. Shots of a family and fishing scenes. The watch tower at Malacca. Brief shots of the region of Johore including, the river ferry at Maur (Muar), the causeway ...

     
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    (B/W) Erosion control in Coon Creek, Wisconsin, "Placed with Siwalik film as my USA tour in 1934-35 gave me ideas as to what was needed in Siwaliks". Trenches and rubble bunds in Kalachitta, Attock. Building stone and wire bolsters in Nurpur Kangra to ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Methods of making mats from leaves are demonstrated by women of Magnasa and Bimal tribes.

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part of a mimic war dance (53). Shaping spear shafts by whittling down poles, heating them and passing them through a hole in ...

     
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    Great Britain

    DOCUMENTARY.

    r.1 Part 1 - the Buddha. Scenes of dark jungle with glimpses of animals, ruined temples and tropical vegetation (180), devil dancers perform (270), commentary explains that then came Buddha. Pilgrims traversing the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Musical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. He is astonished to find he is actually the descendant of an African queen, and resolves to return to his native country to ...

     
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    TOPICAL BUDGETGreat Britain

    Cameron Highlanders in Southampton (79ft).

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film. The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh, particularly at Chirala, about 200 miles north of Madras on the east coast. Possibly shot by an H.D.Wills employee.

    "Views from trains and car": countryside and villages. "Tobacco ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Account of sponge industry in Bahamas.

     
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    Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at Anandgarh. Big wheel. Knife sharpener. Sweet stall. Washing elephants. Buffalo bull fight. Military sports at Rewa. The Maharajah ...

     
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    Travelogue on Palestine emphasising its modern industrial as well as its historical and religious aspects.

     
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    STAMPEDE 1930 has video enhanced entry

    Great Britain

    Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his mother is killed by a lion, who grows up with the Sheikh's son, Nikitu.

    A local woman leaves her baby while collecting ...

     
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    USA

    Biography of the American explorer from his reporting for the New York Herald to the discovery of Livingstone's body and Stanley's conversion.

     
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    Great Britain

    An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.

    The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...

     
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    ADVENTUREGreat Britain

    Tribal African village life.

    "Equatorial Africa". Meeting of the village elders; the chief addressing them; warriors with spears; men returing from jungle with a dead animal. Young, scantily-clad girl skips across the screen ...

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and chocolate, to the paternal attitude of the company towards their staff.

    RL 1: Titles and credits (44). "THE ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Scenes from Hong Kong including: pedestrians in the midday sun; latest fashions in ladies' frocks; men's wear; policemen and sailors in their summerwear; in the city centre and shops; in the side streets. Compiled in 1937 and rearranged in ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Scenes of Hong Kong, including: a variety of people in winter clothes; shops and shop signs; Christmas decorations in shops; the opening of a new church for Chinese Methodists; people in oriental costume; the native quarter (including a ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son

     
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    SUEZ 1938

    USA

    The life of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the building of the Suez Canal.

     
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    USA

    Family in the British Colonial Service in West Africa. Their son revolts against the life and becomes involved with a trouble making scientist. He and his gang are eventually killed and the son escapes.

     
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    Great Britain

    Hong Kong scenes including: the Lido at Repulse Bay; a Chinese bathing club and Dragon Boat race; the filmmakers leave their house on a day trip; harvest time in the rice fields; the filmmakers' bungalow and the beach at Ting Kau.

     
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    LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF AFRICAN NATIVESSouth Africa

    INTEREST. Aspects of life among the Swazi; parts of the Kingship and First-Fruits Ceremony, or Incwala, shown. Shots of countryside (60-84). Cattle on the road (96). Administration buildings, some white ...

     
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    SYRIA IV 1931

    Amateur footage of a journey which originated in Syria showing scenes in Egypt and the return voyage home to Britain.

    Luxor, street scenes, temples the Colossi and the photographer, Cuthbert Wigham. Crossing the Nile. Sakkara, crossing the desert ...

     
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    Smart Collection

    British Honduras: scenes on a typical tour to find suitable land for agriculture, including a forestry survey with forest officers. Shows typical transport hazards.

    Production / Donor Details: ...

     
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    Smart Collection

    Leisure, ceremonial, and celebrations in British Honduras, including a regatta and cricket matches. Followed by plantation work and bridge construction.

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    Smart Collection

    British Honduras: river scenes with boats, jungle and village scenes and soil surveying with Professor Hardy.

    Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Harold Smart OBE. Mr. Smart was born in Lesotho ( ...

     
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    Smart Collection

    Basutoland: dam building and ploughing. shots of daughter Shirley.

    Nyasaland: ferrying the car across the boundary river; the rail terminus; on the lake; loading rice at the lake port.

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  • Smart Collection: 5: Banana cultivation and trade, British Honduras 1930s
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    Clearing forest for banana plantation. Cultivation (including air spraying of crops) and harvesting and transportation of the crop to the port for export to Europe. Loading of ocean freighters and ocean voyage (including stop at ...

     
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    AMATEUR. Bazaar scenes; oil fields and oil rigs; winches; man going down oil well; ball game played with feet.

     
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    COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

    Colonel Hodgkinson and friends - poolside at the Taiping Swimming Club, Malaysia.

    A sign on a fence reads 'No Dogs Allowed'. Shot of a dog looking up, cut to a sign and swimming pool ...

     
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    COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

    Colonel Hodgkinson and friends - poolside at the Taiping Swimming Club, Malaysia.

    A man and woman take it in turns to dive from a diving board. Others follow, some in slow-motion, some ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY SPLITTING AND WEAVING PALM LEAVES

     
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    Amateur film. Tanggye; bazaar scenes; Inle Lake Buddhist festival - rowing through rushes in procession, decorated boats; last Durbar ever performed by the Governor.

     
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    USA

    Romance of Tarzan and Jane.