The history of Basutoland and its people provides a background to the problem of murder for medicine in that country. The ritual killing and mutilation of victims by a group of people under the orders of their chief in order to make up ...
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.
Record of Baptist Missionary Society tour led by Sir Herbert Janes of various locations in Sierra Leone. Opens with boat leaving Liverpool and shots of journey. Predominantly consists of shots of black urban and rural life with less ...
Film of the signing of the Anglo-Malayan Mutual Defence Treaty on October 12, 1957.
The various participants arrive and assemble; the treaty (a defence agreement between Britain and Malaya) is signed. Close-up of ...
Taken by HMS Ceylon. Full details of signing ceremony, speeches etc in docket CNI 38/51.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.
Story of an Englishman involved with the Mau Mau in Kenya.
Training of the first 400 of Singapore's National Servicemen.
The life of Singapore and variety provided by the many different cultures and cu stoms which find expression there.
Title cards. Shots filmed from a vessel as it enters the harbour. Singapore is 'the seventh largest port in the world'. Passenger cargo boat arriving at the port, five European travellers disembark. Male traveller taking in the view. Views ...
Study of Singapore's first general election.
Electioneering posters for the first election to Assembly with an elected majority. `The Vote Is Secret'. Canvassing. The candidates, David Marshall (Labour Front) addresses workers in a square ...
The story of J.L. Wilson, Bishop of Singapore arrested by the Japanese Security Police for spying in 1943. His enduring faith throughout his emprisonment led some of his captors to conversion to the Christian religion.
Travelogue on Singapore, one of the world's natural junctions and one of the greatest international ports.
The port; street scenes, warehouses, junks unloading timber, the interior of a warehouse, different produce being unloaded eg, ...
Native craft; deep-draught vessels; dry docks; pipe-loading of latex; rubber pla ntations; pineapple fields; the battle of malaria; internal transport including the "trishaw".
Visit of Sir Anthony Eden and CIGS (Field Marshal Harding) to 848 Squadron RN, Malaya.
(Reel 1) Display of trooping lifting and parachute techniques evolved by the Royal Navy and the SAS. Sir ...
Composite items from NORTHERN AND RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTS , all concerning Sir Gilbert Rennie
Traces the history of the development of the production of the hard fibre, sisal, and shows growth and processing, and finally the many uses of the fibre. Sisal is one of the greatest industries of East ...
Film of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon "Small World" in December 1958. The crew, who designed the ballon and planned the whole voyage consisted of Arnold "Bushy" Eiloart (Commander ...
Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.
'Alabi, a young man, refuses to be vaccinated by the Sanitary Inspector. A few days later he goes to visit ...
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
Maps show how the growing of a varied range of crops is possible; native life and subsistence farming on the Low Veld; commercial cultivation of maize, tobacco, cotton, fruit and barley on the high Veld.
Compilation of Northern Spotlights no's 1-7.
Remote Beauty Spots. [Northen Spotlight No 1]. A visit by three South African delegates to Abercorn and the surrounding area, to investigate tourism posibilities. c. 50ft.
The Sovereign's ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and ...
Ships of the British Home Fleet pay goodwill visits to islands in the West Indies and then join Canadian ships for joint exercise in the North Atlantic.
After some scenes from the outward voyage (including refuelling ...
I. Entry of Mediterranean and Home Fleet ships into Grand Harbour, Malta (15th March 1952).
I. Long distance shot of fleet approaching Malta. HMS Superb (wearing flag of FO Flotillas "Home" ...
New York; "Florida" - Fort Pierce - Miami; "Caribbean Islands"; Cuba; Montego Bay airport; St Kitts - aerial shot of islands, harvesting on estate, buildings, markets, Blairmont factory, from boat. "Bauxite Workings Mackenzie, [British ...
The implementation of the Land Husbandry Act, th people involved and the progress it has had on agriculture and the social economy.
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves and murderers.
The following statement regarding the story prior to the opening credits: 'For hundreds of years ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Alex Swann while serving on submarine depot ship HMS Forth of the 3rd Submarine Flotilla between September 1956 and November 1958 records family and tourist scenes in harbour, and his own ship in dry dock ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; 1948 Arab-Israeli war and armistice. The advent of Nasser ...
The visit of General Gruenther, Supreme Commander, SHAPE visits NATO HQ Malta at the invitation of C-in-C Mediterranean.
General Gruenther arrives at Luqa Airport, Malta. He welcomes Admiral ...
English garden domestic scenes with dogs. Hong Kong harbour & views of houses on hills surrounding city. Confrontation with Chinese soldiers at the boarder High Dam under construction. Japanese county villas. Coach parties standing by ...
A variety of images covering aspects of the Royal Visit to Nigeria of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1956.
Production / Donor Details: Mr. Smith (b. 1914) was a railway engineer who worked in Nigeria between 1937 ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana. Tour begins in Cairo.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between 1942 and 1955. This ...
Shots of life in the Gold Coast, March to July 1955
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between 1942 and 1955. In 1956 he took up a post as Lecturer in Tropical Agriculture at ...
Sisal growing.
Amateur footage showing the British life style in Mauritius during the 1950s and 1960s.
Film taken in northern Nigeria including impressions of the people and their lifestyle, and more specific shots relating to Ms Spencer's nursing work with mothers, children and babies.
Production / Donor Details: Mrs ...
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part 1: Northern Nigeria 1953-1965. Part 2: Sarawak 1965-1967: Simangang; Kuching; Miri; Kelebit and also Brunei; ...
The enlarging and improving of Takoradi Harbour in the Gold Coast.
Amateur. Scenes in Tanga on the coast of Tanzania.
View from bungalow looking over to coast - Pemba Island (?) Black servant with a large fish. Views of ships in harbour. Small fishing boats. Telecommunications tower. General views ...
Lumberman's campaign to find and destroy a renegade white man who is leader of ferocious native tribe which terrorises an area in E. Africa.
Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ostriches. The migration of buffaloes and other herds. Birdlife, tortoises and snakes.
Government information film about a coastal irrigation and rice growing scheme.
Malaya imports food, buying rice from abroad with money desperately needed for schools and homes. Tanjong Karang is an attempt to increase ...
Government information film about a coastal irrigation and rice growing scheme. Tanjong was once a vast wilderness of swamp and forest. Yet Malaya urgently needed more rice-land. So, with modern machines, the jungle ...
Story of how an American adventurer foils a Red plot to blow up Hong Kong.
Tarzan to the rescue of the occupants of a plane that has crashed in Africa jungle. He saves them from white hunter who wants to hand them over to African tribe in exchange for ivory.
