Missionary work in Nigeria. The difficulties of facing Third World development, in a religious context. The film shows the problems in promoting health care, education and agriculture.

Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.

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 ...

THE INSTALLATION OF THE ƒSARDANA OF SOKOTO> AS PREMIER OF NORTHERN NIGERIA AT ƒKADUNA>, 1ST OCTOBER, 1954

Travelogue of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, highlighting the contrast between old and new methods. The film shows the development of the railways, bridges and modern machinery, while also showing the traditional methods of local ...

Multiple reels on DVD. Family wedding. Journey from South African to Lagos. Flight to Kaduna. Picnic near Kaduna. Kaduna Polo Club. West African Frontier Force parade. Santa Claus: Christmas 1951. Treasury building, Kaduna. ...

How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.

The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as the intertitles provide facts about the palms. Africans are shown climbing the trees - 'the natives climb the palms by ...

No.1 Deals with the nutritional importance of palm oil and palm kernels. Depicts also West African life in the rain belt forest areas of Nigeria. No.2 Outlines the importance to the Nigerian people of the palm and traces how the oil trade ...

Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British District Officer and a tin miner leads to war.

The film introduces the main protagonists. Yilkuba, the witch ...

INDUSTRIAL. The collection and manufacture of palm nuts and palm oil; travelling shots along the River Niger and its tributaries; and rubber plantations in Nigeria.

Main title (6). Cutting down the palm fruit (24-43); stripping the ...

The World Health Organisation at work in Bolivia, Nigeria and Burma.

An African hospital.

The film covers the reception and treatment of a street accident case, with a glance at the X-ray and outpatients departments, in a Lagos hospital.

The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at Kano.

This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports of call. The visitor shows us views of people, European and African, and their habitat and other surroundings encountered on his ...

A pageant in Kano, Nigeria.

Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and members of the Wagenia, Acholi, Sesi, Teffik, Juruba, Mendi and Kroo tribes - Jomo Kenyatta, later an ...

Designed primarily to inform the Nigerian public of what is involved in the exploration for and production of oil in their country. Portrays the work of a seismic exploration party in the difficult swamp country of the Niger Delta.

THE VISIT OF BRITAIN‰S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, ƒOLIVER * LYTTELTON>, TO NIGERIA, 24TH MAY-1ST JUNE, 1952

Documentary describing the rapid growth of the Nigerian palm oil trade.

Celebrations, attended by the Princess Royal, to mark the introduction of self-government in Western Nigeria in November 1957.

The film opens with street scenes, highlighting the preparations for the impending celebrations. The new offices ...

Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.

'Alabi, a young man, refuses to be vaccinated by the Sanitary Inspector. A few days later he goes to visit ...

Life and industries in Nigeria.

"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and ...

A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.

The film opens with shots of traditional rural life - the landscape, cows, horses ploughing the fields, blossoming trees, sheep and finally ...

A variety of images covering aspects of the Royal Visit to Nigeria of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1956.

Production / Donor Details: Mr. Smith (b. 1914) was a railway engineer who worked in Nigeria between 1937 ...

A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part 1: Northern Nigeria 1953-1965. Part 2: Sarawak 1965-1967: Simangang; Kuching; Miri; Kelebit and also Brunei; ...

Survey of the peoples, customs and economy of Nigeria.

Travelogue of Nigeria. Includes Kano airport, Kano town - the mosque and market; children memorising the Koran; aerial views of Lagos; cocoa and ground nut cultivation; palm oil ...

'Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an ...

The operation of the PWD Sawmill in Nigeria.

Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.

(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides a brief and uncritical review of progress made in Nigeria - Lagos converted from a ...

Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, one with superstition, one with land conservation and one with education in Nigerian schools. What is being done to ...

Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on N. Nigeria.

ACTUALITY. Nigeria (or Belgian Congo?): Lord Leverhulme and his host and hostess, followed by three more European men, walk through a garden with palmtrees and a fullsize statue of a woman (15). (Gap) In front of a flight of stairs up to ...

Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and Ghana could be used.

three parts:- Animal Feeding Men of the Mersey Matadi Palm

The medical work of the Uzuakoli leprosy settlement, and the patients' varied activities.

Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.

Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. First, 'officers and men of the great West African Frontier Force' arrive at Liverpool on the liner ...

At Udi in Nigeria.

Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection eg, the dispensary, a concrete water tank with tap, men clearing and levelling the ground, the arrival of the district officer ...

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Prince Henry and Princess Alice, on a tour of Eastern Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons and Lagos as the Federation of Nigeria approaches full independence and entry into the Commonwealth, starting 12 May 1959. ...

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

Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan campaign, 1944-1945.

No action footage. Men of the 81st Division under Major General Loftus Tottenham, ordered to ...

The election and appointment of the new archbishop of West Africa, James Lawrence Horstead of Freetown, Sierra Leone who replaced Leslie Gordon Vining of Lagos at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos.

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)

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 ...

A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George VI.

The King is "a symbol of unity" who links the Empire in "geography, history and destiny" and also an ...