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    An island by island account of a visit by Methodist ministers to the missions between October '35 and February '36.

    Traveling by boat, the S.S. Orbita starts at Santander, Coruna and Vigo (Spain) passing the Azores. and the first ...

     
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    Great Britain

    ?Amateur footage: scenes on deck of H.M.S. Carlisle off Tristan da Cunha; supplies rowed shore; ship's chaplain with bridal couple; ship's doctor examining islanders; sailors signalling to ship with semaphore amd morse code.

     
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    Amateur film of a family visit to the Northwest Frontier, India.

    A woman walks in front of a palace/temple. Smoke coming out of a tower in the palace/temple. Two stone elephants flank the entrance. Views of the ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes in Benares; Nicola's wedding; Lucknow races.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Life at Naini Tal.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady Kendall, wife of Sir Charles Kendall, in Allahabad, Benares, Naini Tal, Lucknow and England. The second ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Naini Tal: an official parade; family shots. departure by train. the journey home by ship via Suez Canal and Gibraltar. Lucinda, the new baby.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    The Donaldson family moving into the Collector's House at Aligarh, mid 1930s; fishing; country race meeting and fairground; preparing to move the Collector's camp; gardening, extensive bazaar sequence.

    Production / Donor ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Visit to Ireland; scenes at home; the voyage out to India via Port Said and Aden; scenes at Naini Tal, including the George V Silver Jubilee parade;

    sailing, and garden scenes at Aligarh.

    Production / Donor Details: The ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Country train journey; preparing for a girl guides' garden party in Allahabad

    servants' children's party; leopard shoot in Kheri and Collector's Xmas camp;

    picnic at big game shoot; presents distributed to staff at camp; ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Ship voyage to India. Baby Lucinda in India with her mother in the domestic surroundings of the family home and garden.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady ...

     
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    COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

    Following soldiers hacking through jungle. Column of troops Gurkha? Mules through river. Native soldiers? Hats. Pan camp. Guard and drill. Troops on the march. Crossing bridge. Troops lined up.

    Notes ...

     
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    (Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving Southampton . The regiment watch other boats and a destroyer from the deck. The train stationary at a station in France. The ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of scenes in Malaysia and Singapore.

    The Chenderoh Dam near Taiping, on the Perak river which feeds a hydro-electric power station. Doctor Ross and a monkey on the Caledonia Estate. The operation of a rotary oil press ...

     
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    Amateur film of recruits training in Waziristan.

    Shots of the camp, road and countryside; Bannu - signpost showing routes to Waziristan, Bannu permanent camp - scouts block house at control post into tribal territory. Saidgi Camp; Shinki Pass ...

     
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    'The Port of Accra- capital of the Gold Coast and Headquarters of one of the Fry Buying Agencies.' Viewed from sea-level two rowing boats approaching large ship. 'Port Officials come aboard' similar shot with single boat approaching ship, ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed in the colony.

     
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    "Wedding of the Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghraji Saheb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh 1933". "Part I. The Bridegroom. Princes of India arriving. The Dandia Ras. A Fuleka Procession". "Ghani Khama". "'Princes of India Arriving.' Ruling Princes ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife - probably on a Thomas Cook tour)

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of the Madras district of India and the coast line.

    Indians carrying goods to market in panniers (8). Fishermen, the coastline (75). Fishing from shore with nets (124). Elephants clearing forest 9147). Coastline, man in ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua, with some shots of Miami and Havana.

     
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    SOHO FEATURE FILM MAGAZINEGreat Britain

    Cinemagazine on cocoa production in Tobago.

    "Photographics Present...Cocoa". A waterfall in Tobago, in the British West Indies. The history of the cocoa bean. Men knock pods from trees, women put them ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Filmed scenes of Palestine to illustrate Biblical sayings and images.

     
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    Great Britain

    DRAMA. The whites working a rubber plantation in West africa slowly collapse under the multiple strains that their life-style imposes.

    Rl.1. Introduction about the effect of damp rot in West Africa (50ft). On a rubber plantation in ...

     
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    A parable set in Palestine at the time of Christ.

     
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    Travelogue, following a journey from Mexico to Borneo, via Singapore, covering local flora, wildlife, peoples and customs.

     
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    The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods.

    Over a map of Barbados, a West Indian voiceover outlines a history of the island - 'Barbados is the only island which has always remained British since its ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Travelogue of the air journey from London To Capetown.

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary on the development of an air mail service over the British Empire.

     
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    AMATEUR FILM. Scenes in and round the medical service building. Huskies pulling sleds across the ice, steam ship in background possibly stuck in ice (25). Men in grounds of medical building walking very unsteadily (50). Inside the centre a man's legs ...

     
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    AMATEUR FILM of a husky and sled journey and a medical centre and orphanage in St Anthony set up by Wilfrid T. Grenfell, an English medical missionary.

    LS iceberg, huskies crossing ice to icebound steamship. Ship moves forward a small distance. ...

     
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    Gibraltar, Port Said, Suez Canal, Aden. Ex-P&O ship 'Narkunda' to HMS Penzance. Scenes around Dehra Dun. Himalayas from Mussoori. Kashmir merchant shows his goods. Indian funeral cortege. "John Chinaman has his turn". Family scenes with a bemused ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans on beach with dogs. "INDIA - THE SEA MAY BE A BARRIER OR A BRIDGE" "INDIA---BRITAIN THE SEA SEPERATES ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Flying operations on the fleet aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in the Mediterranean: RAF deck crewmen dash towards a Blackburn Ripon II biplane torpedo bomber after it has just landed on the flight deck. A D Class destroyer HMS Delight ( ...

     
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    Compilation film in five episodes of the Indian forces on the Western Front, Mesopotamian Front and Palestine Front, 1915-1918.

    I. The first reel shows men of the Indian Corps (including British soldiers) in France ...

     
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    Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Hope Fountain, near Bulawayo, South Rhodesia, training girls and women for community service. Features missionary teachers Miss Ross and Miss Read.

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at Inyati, near Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia - a Model Native Training Institution with Boys Boarding School and a Practising School.

     
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    Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Serowe, Bechuanaland, home to the Bamangwato tribe. Features Semane, widow of Chief Khama, and Khama's son, Chief Tshekedi Khama and his wife.

     
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    Samoan Sidelights. Includes three sequences - Sinnet Making (a kind of twine); Samoan Kava ceremony; Roasting the Ceremonial Pig.

     
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    Introduction to Samoa featuring footage of Tutuila, Pagopago and Apia, including the work of the Apia Samoan Church. Lava fields at Savai'i. Kava ceremony in Samoan London Missionary Society pastor's house on Savai'i. Also features footage of Vailima, ...

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society mission ship, John Williams V (launched 1930), and the role of the ship in the life of the mission. Voyage from Suva to Samoa and the Ellice Islands.

     
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    Depicts life at mission schools in Samoa, including Papuata Girls' High School, Leulumoega Fou Boys' High School, Malua College and Atauloma Girls' High School.

     
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    GB

    START 00:00:00 Title 'Pathscope Safety Film presents "Mediterranean 1938 1939"' superimposed over a still of the G Class destroyer HMS Glowworm (pennant number H92) in the Grand Harbour, Malta. On board the battleship HMS Warspite with spray breaking ...

     
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    Photographed at Mindolo and Nkana, N. Rhodesia. Depicts work to improve levels of literacy in the mining compounds and surrounding settlements of the Copper Belt, including the Mindolo mission press run by the London Missionary Society for the ...

     
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    WT Blake Collection

    Quasi-official detailed guided tour of the Colony of Gibraltar with informative intertitles.

    Production / Donor Details: Major Wilfred Theodore Blake (1894-1968) was a pioneer aviator, author and traveller.

     
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    Warren Collection

    Amateur footage showing British life style, local people and shots of the pitch industry in Trinidad in the 1930s.

     
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    Williamson Collection

    1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.

    23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.

    Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an around Gantok residency. 10.04 2. Gyantse and west Tibet. 11.20 3. Gantok residency in Sikkim, 1931-2. 4. Ha and Paro ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.

    Reel One of three.

    Victoria Falls. The four-day steam-train journey along the Orange River from the Cape to the Falls, via Mafeking ...

     
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    FILM TAKEN IN THE ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN, IN ARABIA AND NORTH AFRICA BY THE SALISBURY ROUND THE WORLD EXPEDITION.