HOME MOVIES. Scenes of the sugar cane industry in British Guiana (Guyana).
Sugar cane loaded from boat onto a river bank. Man cutting down cane with a machete. Man carrying cane on head and throwing it into a large rectangular ...
ACTUALITY. The 1948 Conservative Party conference: Oliver Stanley's speech on the benefits brought to the colonies by private enterprise and R.A.Butler's presentation of the Agricultural Charter.
Tour round a market place in Accra, made from COI material taken in the Gold Coast.
The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; the fibres used in rope-making.
Amateur footage of the Oxford University expedition to Gambia in 1948. Part 1. Packing the trucks in Oxford and on the road to Southampton. There are scenes on the boat out to Africa, followed by "transhipment onto and up river on board ...
A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined metal into pure copper bars.
Part 1. Milling Shows the various crushing and grinding machines, including: the primary ...
INTEREST. The work of the craftsmen in the Kenyan textile industry and the West African silversmiths and jewellers.
Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.
The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. Intended as one of a group of films made by the CFU showing the large towns of the Empire.
The Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.
The lifestyle of the jungle nomads of the Malay Peninsular rainforest. Life with a nomadic tribe in Malaya, as seen through eyes of Loon, the son of the chief-man. The film shows the tribe setting up a new camp, collecting ...
Traditions and rituals of marriage and dowry in Gold Coast of Africa. Tale of how Arabella has her dowry added to at various stages of her life from birth to marriage.
An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of the Nigerian paramount Chief the Oni of Ife.
Credit and main title (34). "LONDON ...
HOME MOVIES. A trip to New York by the Eisner family, and scenes in British Guiana (Guyana).
View of Southampton docks as ship sails from it. The New York skyline viewed as ship enters port. New York street scenes. New York suburb ...
Leslie Henson's home movie. Sierra Leone. Leslie Henson with native girl. Game reserve. Natives
Newsreel coverage of an RAF photographic survey of East Africa.
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Items include: WALLABIES HUMBLE ENGLAND BURMA CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE IN LONDON The NEW YEAR
A mute educational film portraying life in a typical Malay village of fishermen and rice-farmers.
Brief titles introduce each sequence, but there is almost no comment, the film being left to speak for itself. The ...
Film about 'one of the prettiest villages in Malaya', which has become a centre for the curing of leprosy.
The film shows the village in detail; people working on the land; how leprosy can be cured; the early ...
Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.
The film shows: how people from many races have settled here; the way that the Malays live; the Chinese and their way of life; the role of the Europeans, the ' ...
How Malaya has developed its armed forces since the last war.
The Royal Malayan Navy, a small fleet with all the tradition of an ancient discipline, is profiled first; the ships are provided by Britain, the ...
A description of the operations and the versatility of Radio Malaya.
Every day "the voice of Malaya" broadcasts educational, information and entertainment programmes in four languages. Inhabitants are shown at ...
Reel 1: (Mixed Colour/B&W) IEME School at Kirkee (near Poona), prior to Indian Partition and the creation of Pakistan. British officers fire pistol and rifle on range. Bulldozer clears a malaria site. Indian/Pakistani soldiers pack up, prior to the ...
Offcuts. Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence ...
(B&W) Indian dignitaries await the arrival of Lord Mountbatten. Brief shot of Mountbatten stepping off the launch. He and Lady Mountbatten are greeted and introduced to the dignitaries. A shot of the people lined up ...
Guests arrive at Government House, New Delhi, and are greeted by Lord and Lady Mountbatten. Shots of Indian officers in ceremonial uniform, guests mingling in the background. Three American? Army officers (two are ...
Family scenes in the UK while on leave in the late 1930s and 1940s.
India street scenes with monkey trainer and rickshaw .Smartly dressed Europeans in a park setting with expensive large cars. Celebration party for Indian ...
Includes Jewish refugees in Cyprus.
A historical costume drama, adapted from a popular stage play (A Patriot), glorifying the Song minister Wen Tianxiang, who chose to die for the dynasty in the 12th century rather than surrender to the alien enemy. The film serves as a political ...
Depicts a voyage on board the London MIssionary Society Ship, the John Williams VI, to the Pacific Islands, including Beru (Gilbert Islands), Apia (Samoa), Suva (Fiji), Fife Bay, Port Moresby and Moru (Papua), Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne (Australia ...
Includes item on Gandhi's fasts in India to bring about Hindu and Muslim unificaiton.
AMATEUR. Footage of events in Bahrain 1938-48.
I. Scenes on board HMS Ocean: individual aircraft run up engines; parked aircraft ranged on after deck; Fairey Firefly Mk 5 is towed aft by small tractor; CU as chockman frees Firefly NF.1 as engine starts up; CU diamond-and-square pilot signaller on ...
US Army Documentary film, using stock footage throughout, on the retaking of the Gilbert Islands (a colony of the British Empire from 1916 until 1976) from Japanese forces in November 1943. The film illustrates the use of naval ...
I. "Aktuelles in Kuerze." a. Lord Pakenham gives press conference in Berlin (pledge of non-abandonment); Lindley Fraser of BBC also speaks. b. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, after illness, resumes duties: congratulations from ...
I. Berlin. Centenary commemoration of the March 1848 Revolution; wreaths laid at monument, presentation in theatre, and mass rally addressed by leaders of SDP, CDU and LDP parties.
II. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. ...
I. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. Alpine farmers moving with families and farm animals to higher summer pastures. b. Congress of German radio 'hams' in Bad Lauterberg (demonstrations and exercise; English guests). c. A ...
A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and the prevention of soil erosion.
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows nature of country, customs and religious rituals, crafts, and administrative and health services.
The ...
A short story for children about a Basuto-boy herdsman and his adventures in dealing with cattle thieves.
The second reel (of two) shows Lesaoama, a Basuto boy, as he travels across icy mountains on a Basuto pony in order to tell his ...
'London: This magazine is devoted to the activities of the Gold Coast Band during their visit to the U.K. The music track is an actual recording of their playing' (Colonial Cinema, December 1947, 95).
The ...
Biographical Adventure: The film reconstructs the life of Cherry Kearton. renowned naturalist, traveller and pioneer of cinematography, with excerpts from his wildlife films.
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn the villagers against the nuns. Finally Sister Ruth becomes mad and attacks the mother superior only to bring about her own ...
The story of a young disabled boy who escapes from his tribe as he is about to be sacrificed because of a drought. He flees to a Christian mission and in due course is converted to Christianity and develops his painting talents ...
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. Gandhi and entourage walking along in wooded surroundings. They cross a bridge and enter a village where they are ...
Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial Office tea party.
'Nigeria - Agriculture in the School' Young boys ...
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YOUNGEST RACE-HORSE OWNER ICEBOUND BRITAIN SHIVERS PARADE IN ADDIS ABABA OUR ROVING CAMERAMAN (BURMESE DELEGATION) (NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR) (WHALE HUNTING) OUR ...
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