The development and growth of the volcano from the beginning of the eruption in October 1961 until March 1962 when active growth had virtually ceased. The film indicates some of the effects of the volcano on the flora and fauna of the ...
Some aspects of the varied work being done by young volunteers from Britain for Voluntary Service Overseas in social and medical services, particularly in the new countries of Tanzania and Mauritius.
Belize facing a take-over bid by neighbouring Guatemala.
Film abot Wankie national park, showing the park, camps, people game watching, and the game.
Looks at early race relations in Britain. Tells the story of a West Indian man as he makes his way from the false equality of an England v. West Indies cricket match to the reality of trying to find accommodation ...
Amateur travelogue. Mr. and Mrs. Brown continue their world tour and reach their next destination, the Philippines. They visit Manila and notice the huge gap between rich and poor; they see mansions that are being protected by armed guards, as well as ...
Incomplete film on the role of British forces around the world in the mid 1960s, including a summary of the British units stationed in Gibraltar, Cyprus, North Africa, Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong and Guyana. Ian Mikardo, Labour MP for Poplar, comments ...
Amatuer film. Footage, with lots of close-ups, of wild elephants in Africa. Including shots of them grazing at the waterside and a herd with youngsters and young adult elephants.
Amateur footage of William Butlin on holiday in Africa on a riverboat safari.
Shot of William Butlin with an 8mm (?) camera filming bush vegetation/flowers (37 ft). A European car being loaded onto a river ferry/raft. WB chatting to ...
Amateur film of William Butlin on holiday in Africa.
Shot of William Butlin plus a European man and woman (possibly Nora, Butlin's mistress/second wife) wearing ponchos and straw hats. Shot of an African village; villagers dressed in ...
Amateur film of William Butlin on holiday in Africa.
William Butlin is greeted by a European man as he arrives in his car. Nearby African dancers are doing a display in the street. Shot of WB filming them. Shots of another group of ...
Amateur footage of William Butlin on holiday. Various pieces of footage, largely in Africa, including WB with his second wife (Nora (?)); on a boat; elephants on the riverbank; thatched huts; views from a speed boat across a lake.
Amateur footage of William Butlin on holiday in Africa. Shots of WB at his hotel, on safari, on a riverboat, using an 8mm camera during his holiday.
Amateur film of William Butlin in African villages.
William Butlin with African children in a village, handing them food. Young African men. Native African dancing, with different dances performed, including a very fast rhythmic ...
Amateur film of William Butlin on safari in Uganda, Africa, c.1960.
William Butlin chatting to a middle-aged man with glasses in a safari suit in the savannah. William Butlin next to a large cactus. A sign above reads "Queen ...
Well shot footage of white rhinos filmed from a jeep.
The industrial evolution of Rhodesia.
Amateur film about tradition and change in Africa including footage of a male circumcision ceremony performed by the Bugisu tribe, Uganda.
Footage includes: Long introductory intertitle on dark traditions of Africa and how it is ...
Life in the Rhodesia Royal Air Force - the day's routine at an air base, vampire squadron exercises, training for new recruits, bombing training and the Commonwealth exercise "Battler".
I. Close-up of helmsman of HMS Ocean, stripped to the waist. He carries out his normal duties.
II. Various shots taken in Grand Harbour, Malta, of ratings travelling by, and alighting from, motor boats and dghaisas (dghajsas) piloted by ...
Winston Field discusses his government's decision to introduce the death penalty for a variety of offences, including petrol bombing. Also answers criticisms from Harold Wilson and the British government.
A family tours Southern Rhodesia on holiday. Shows holiday spots from the Eastern Districts, the Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Zimbabwe ruins, Bulawayo and the Wankie National Park.
Film showing move of 4th Royal Tank Regiment from Edinburgh to Aden. Showing parade of the Regiment at Redford Cavalry Barracks, Edinburgh, departure from Turnhouse airport, and scenes of the Regiment's activities as Middle East Armoured Car Regiment ...
I. HA over the parade ground at Radfan Camp (?), covered in heaps of soldiers' kit - a Wessex helicopter approaches to pick up two cargo nets laden with gear and flies off. LA of Wessex picking up more kit. CUs as ...
Life in Hong Kong.
Scenes in Kenya
Scenes in Kenya
Peter Warner's memories of Bush Bashing with the Directorate of Overseas Surveys'
Fort Jameson. Expedition into Bush
Bush Beacon
Pillar Building
Dead Elephant
Surveying, with Helio flashing
...
1960 Annual Bamenda Race Meeting.
Mentchem Falls.
Bush Camping.
Bamenda.
Crashed Mammy Wagon.
Crossing the Donga River.
Treacherous Hairpin Road in Bamenda.
Borneo:
Light railway
On ...
Agricultural best practice and British Government service. Government Livestock station. Up country inspections by British officers. Voting at Polling station in Election. Mountain airstrip landing Local police band concert. Rustic ...
Wicksteed young children playing in local river and swimming in the pool in the official bungalow. Horse race meetings at two separate race courses. Views of the official bungalow and its grounds.
Production / Donor Details: ...
Lake District gymkhana. Middle East airport with aircraft movements.
Tour by boat of Portsmouth Naval Dockyard with attention paid to HMS Vanguard. (The 'last battleship in the Royal Navy'). Religious flower procession in ...
Film devoted exclusively to footage of the Wicksteed young children on the beach and at their seashore home in Borneo.
However, from (14.29 and 15.42) sequences dealing with the horses kept by the Wicksteeds at their coastal ...
Steam locomotive arriving at rural station with its train. Arrival of Father Christmas by jeep on railtrack for children's party in town.
Wicksteed family life in their bungalow in Borneo. Swimming, their life on the beach ...
Short camera tour of Hong Kong harbour shot from small boat showing the commercial shipping in the harbour and the tower blocks of Hong Kong shot from the surrounding hills.
Production / Donor Details: These films were taken ...
Comet airliner of Malaysia Airways lands at Airport. Horse raising on farms. Wooded hill county. Internal passenger service at hilltop airstrip collects
country people. RAF helicopters in action over wooded mountain ...
Aerial shots of the mountain country around Kina Balu. Commercial timber logging operations in the jungle with operations using heavy equipment.
Felled timber trunks being towed down river . Expedition down river by British ...
Road construction in the high forest mountain country. Porters carrying their loads in tough terrain. The villages and countryside in the high mountain area around Mt Kina Balu.
Extended sequence showing the rocky summit of Mt ...
Views of the coast and of Tawau township with modern building and port installations. Royal Navy Cruiser lying off shore.
Commercial timber logging operations. Modern trawler at sea taking the catch onto its deck. Official ...
Commercial logging. Tug pushing raft of logs on river. Commercial felling machinery. Coastal fishing villages. Royal Navy Frigate sailing off shore
Material brought to Factory for the manufacture of Industrial or Manila Hemp. ...
City scenes in Hong Kong. River traders. Thailand: Bangkok.
Production / Donor Details: Ellis and Greta Williams worked for the Government in Uganda from 1949 to independence; Mr. Williams worked at the Treasury, Mrs. Williams ...
Uganda: independence parade. Various floats representing aspects of the country. Fruitbats (?). Gardening. Birdlife. Crossing the Nile by ferry. Torrential rain in garden. Car maintenance.
Production / Donor Details: Ellis ...
Young girl holding baby. Train arriving. Car journey - Kenya. Timboroa (Rift Valley). Crossing the equator. Heavy goods train, carrying cars. Home life. Chameleons. Flowers. Williams' with young African children; Mr. Williams sawing ...
Journey to South Africa. Basutoland.
Production / Donor Details: Ellis and Greta Williams worked for the Government in Uganda from 1949 to independence; Mr. Williams worked at the Treasury, Mrs. Williams as an official ...
Various scenes in Brunei, including large and colourful celebrations.
Production / Donor Details: Ellis and Greta Williams worked for the Government in Uganda from 1949 to independence; Mr. Williams worked at the Treasury, ...
Scenes in Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and the UK, 1957-69
Production / Donor Details: The film was shot by Terence Leslie William Windle, private Secretary to Sir John Rankine in Nigeria from 1951 to 1958 and a District Officer in ...
Documentary on the Zambesi river.
DOCUMENTARY. A report a week after Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) and the possible effects on Zambia.
No titles. Yachts sailing on Lake Kariba (0:10). A black man helps ...
