British colonial officer with bus / lorry vehicle onto which local workmen get. Market at jungle village. Communal cooking fires in the communal area long narrow jungle village. British colonial policeman wearing black armband. ...
Gold Coast. The bride, Miss Scanlan dressed in her white wedding outfit and carrying bridal bouquet poses for formal pictures on balcony of house before posing again at the entrance to the Residency where she is saluted by one of the ...
Sports Day. Tamale? Football field with crowds of African spectators on the touchline. Small boys play the game, which requires them to eat an apple suspended from a string without using their hands or arms. Continuous procession of ...
Gold Coast. Lodge holiday retreat deep in hilly country overlooking lake. Young British lady poses in front of Official car, which has Union Jack flying from its bonnet. British official demonstrates the use of Reflex camera to ...
Gold Coast. The grounds of Official Residence. Sentry Box at the main entrance with 3 African sentries standing side by side armed with rifles which are at the slope. Tour of the very extensive gardens and grounds concentrating on the ...
Journey from Liverpool to Takeradi, Gold Coast. Departure of Liner from the landing stage at Liverpool Docks England shot from the ship and showing the details of the landing station with the Liver Buildings in the background. Tugs ...
Gold Coast British lady dressed in straw summer hat, white belt, and divided skirt demonstrates her tennis shots for the camera on deserted tennis court in the grounds of Residency? An African woman with her child in her arms meets ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories Cattle fair on flat open ground on outskirts of village. British colonial officer in Auctioneer's hutch with roof undertakes Auction before crowd of local people. Other British colonial officers on ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Inter Title "Mbofraturo. Bread making." On a large table in the courtyard outside back door of house 3 young girls (2 of whom are African, the third is light skinned and looks European) make bread. ...
Gold Coast. Kumasi Saw mill: chipping machinery with wheels and pulleys in full action and being fed by workmen. Two British supervising are glimpsed out side the building. Workmen at Cement mixing plant on building construction site ...
Ceremonies surrounding the restoration of the Ashanti Confederation 31 January 1935. Substantially repeat Jackson Collection 1.
Production / Donor Details: Donor's grandfather, Sir Francis Walter F Jackson was Chief Commissioner ...
Inauguration of Ashantehene.
See Jackon Collection 1 - fireworks and crowds pushing forward to meet Ashantehene but very underexposed.
Production / Donor Details: Donor's grandfather, Sir Francis Walter F Jackson was ...
Northern Territories Gold Coast. This is dark and rather indistinct footage apart from the final sequence. Group of local girls bathing at waterside of riverbank. Girls dancing. General scenes of village people. British brick out ...
Gold Coast. Rural Colonial Fort / Residence. British Colonial officer with wife walks down exterior stairs to courtyard where they and their son play with their dogs. In the Courtyard there is drawn up a Guard of African troops with ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Study of Lizards and small insects on earth baked ground in open flat scrubland. Swarm of locusts in huge cloud attacking trees and almost blackening out the light. Tribal gathering in flat scrub ...
Gold Coast. Group of small African boy with containers on their heads take water from a pond in the country and carry this away in a long column. Large group of men and teenage boys work on the construction of an earth embankment in ...
Gold Coast. Inter Title "Funeral Costoms by Kumasi Chief in Remebrance of the late Sir Cecil Armitage and Mr N. S. Newlands. Kumasi. 12th Apirl 1933." At a large outdoor gathering, held on a sports field, the Ashanti people re-enact ...
Colour sequences from reel 1: the Ashantehene ceremony. Crowds at large Durbar Ashanti tribal gathering. The manhandling of the "Golden Stool". The parade through the crowds of those carrying the tribal symbols of Authority. The ...
Lahore 1939
Switzerland. India 1938
Simla. North West Frontier Province.
Life in India 1936
Medical missionary Ronald Carpenter's journey on the 1st steamer from Southampton to Bombay.
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter. Includes footage of Bible Churchman's Missionary Society's (B.C.M.S.) hospital in Kachwa where he worked: shots of hospital exterior; steam roller; cataracts surgery; potters wheel; ...
