Film-expedition to New Guinea.

General survey of Kuwait, its oil, its ruler, social services, technological and agricultural advances among the Arab people, and a visit to the Majlis. Opens with an interview with three Kuwait students in Britain.

The co-op officer and the problems he encounters in Sarawak.

A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.

A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados.

Part of Command Activities Series

Notes

Content information copied from SSVC RAF Catalogue of Training Films & Video Tapes 1989

The 1st Battalion of Rhodesian Light Infantry, 3 recruits are followed through basic training.

ACTUALITY. Members of the 1st Battalion, 2nd K.E.O. Gurkhas on active service in Borneo.

An introduction to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, including footage of fauna, flora and the local way of life, and showing the work of London Missionary Society/ CCWM (Congregational Council for World Mission) missions in the islands. The film follows ...

Shows all stages in the planting, growing, work in the ginner and the buying and selling of cotton.

A light comedy romance between a rich American diplomat and a Russian emigré princess from Hong Kong.

Countess Mountbatten's last tour in North Borneo.

The film shows her arrival and a number of visits to various establishments, and ends with a shot of a Union Jack sinking to half mast.

The sugar industry in Rhodesia, including:- 1960 Bulawayo trade show, the sugar pavillion and the visit by the Queen Mother, the Chirundu sugar estates, the processes involved in making and refining sugar.

General scenes in Aden showing back streets, domestic animals, goats, camels, etc. Water carts. Mountains in background. Buildings. Helicopter shown on ground. Descent of CS grenades from Helicopter. CS ...

A hunter kills a sacred lion and is cursed by a native chief. Unhealed he returns to Africa and kills the chief, and is healed.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...

Includes various scenes of a family on safari in Tanzania (Tanganyika), showing the scenery that they drive through, the villages & people that they visit and meet and the kind of roads and bridges that they drive along. It has a few ...

About 400' of wildlife, mostly in Uganda National Parks, shot between 1958 and 1966. NOT edited into a coherent film.

Production / Donor Details: John Cleave was ADC Karamoja District for 11 years.

A year in the life of the people of Karamoja District, taken in 1958-60, edited.

Mostly in Matheniko county, and includes some Tepeth from Moroto mountain. Scenes include blood-letting (the major diet of the Karamojong is cattle- ...

A 300' edited record of the demarcation of the border between Uganda and Kenya from late 1959 to March 1960. The 6-month foot safari along the trackless border at the foot of the scarp was supported by camels, donkeys and porters. An ...

A 275' edited record of the hand-over on Independence. Parade with the Governor handing over the PM Obote and some of the celebratory events that followed.

March-past of the 4th Kings African Rifles.

Multi-racial crowds at ...

A compendium of wildlife and scenes mostly in Uganda's game parks, in those days excellent, and some from Karamoja. 1958-1966. Edited.

Production / Donor Details: John Cleave was ADC Karamoja District for 11 years.

Independence celebrations in Nigeria.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Cressy was Deputy Superintendent of the Palestine Police Force and then Deputy Commissioner of the Nigerian Police.

VHS containing various film items illustrating Mr Crouch's life and travels as a British official in Southern Arabia. It shows many aspects of life in the desert, including stunning scenery, military patrols, good shots of the Hadhrami ...

Family shots of Mr Crouch's engagement, wedding & honeymoon in East Africa. Back on duty in Aden, and other holiday footage.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Crouch served as a political officer in the Aden Protectorates and Aden ...

Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.

Depicts the life of the Christian church in the remote desert communities of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Shows the work of a travelling African evengelist; journeys of several hundred miles made by the missionary of the London Missionary Society to ...

Travelogue of Hong Kong

Development projects in Mexico, Burundi, Hong Kong and Tanzania illustrate the need or co-operation between develop-ing and developed

A study in social transition, presenting the problem of a young village African who goes to work in the Rhodesian copper mines, but then, unable to come to terms with an industrial environment, feels himself drawn back to the simple ...

A report on the tension between China and Hong Kong and the border clashes of 1967.

A profile on Dominica.

Politics in British Guiana.

Deals with the Royal Tour of West Africa. (Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gam bia). Commentary spoken by Anthony Quayle.

TRAVELOGUE.

Rl. 1. Aerial shot of Lagos; Ibadhan - University College Hospital; fishing village near Port Harcourt; village funeral rite; village market scenes; chiefs of eastern region at Enugu seen outside parliament building; ...

A report on Anguilla, with Robert Bradshaw and Sir Frederick Phillips.

I. Bridge of a Daring Class destroyer at sea: Captain and Lieutenant, Officer of the Watch, on the bridge. OOW issues orders to bring the ship past the landing craft HMS Striker (L.3516) which is on a reciprocal course. OOW inspects compass and ...

Footage from Mr Day's time as Senior Political Officer in the South Arabian Federation between 1964 and 1967.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Day entered HMOCS as Political Officer, Western Aden Protectorate, in 1961. From 1964-67 he ...

Various scenes in The Gambia

Production / Donor Details: Mr Dudley joined the Colonial Office after WW2 and was sent to Nigeria, initially to carry out a land survey assessing the damage done to agricultural land by tin mining ...

Various scenes in The Gambia

Production / Donor Details: Mr Dudley joined the Colonial Office after WW2 and was sent to Nigeria, initially to carry out a land survey assessing the damage done to agricultural land by tin mining ...

Various scenes in The Gambia

Production / Donor Details: Mr Dudley joined the Colonial Office after WW2 and was sent to Nigeria, initially to carry out a land survey assessing the damage done to agricultural land by tin mining ...

DOCUMENTARY. The build-up of British forces in the Gulf States.

The commander of a British platoon in Bahrain, Lt. Pattinson, explaining the reasons for Britain's presence to a group of new arrivals (13). Titles. A military band ...

During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, her charge and a callow subaltern. Baker hopes to escape by river to Khartoum but the wreckage of ...

Survey of the police work in the Borneo jungle of the British forces against the Indonesian confrontation.

British naval operations at Malta in World War II.

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