Scenes of Burmese civilian life in a large village in the Arakan region of Burma, five miles from Kindaunggyi, on the banks of the Tanlwe Chaung (river ...

For the first time since the liberation of Rangoon, Burma, almost a year previously, the people of the city celebrate the Water Festival with lavish ...

After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian nationalists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia ...

In Surabaya a large pall of smoke hangs over a burning kampong or village. Two Chinese civilians approach carrying their belongings; the leading man carries a small Chinese flag to ...

Nature story about a young colonial girl lost in the African wilderness with her pet bushbaby.

The film opens with air to ground shots from an aeroplane of the snow covered Alps, the Italian coastline and Rome. The film continues with highlights of Rosie Newman's visit to Cyprus including scenes in and around Kyrenia, carob and olive trees, a ...

Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), shows part of flight in Imperial Airways Handley Page Hannibal passenger plane named Hengist (AAXE) over Middle East, landing for refuelling in ...

A film of a safari from Isiolo in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya across Chalbi desert to North Horr(?). 2 Landrovers with police radio equipment to keep in touch with outside world.

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Military band performing on the march at a military establishment (Poor focus). Celebrations and parade, probably in Nicosia on Greek ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Greek wedding & party and Greek Orthodox priest. Country life. Camels. Floods. Forests. Troodos Mountians. Coastal scenery. Coastal ...

Title falsely suggests the film is a story of a summer holiday in the Troodos mountains. There are some scenes from Cyprus but many more are of scenes in Britain. Extensive sequence of general and external views of Durham Cathedral, ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies. Fancy Dress; arrival of Father Christmas on a decorated donkey cart. Coastal scenery. Byzantine & Roman ruins, ...

Leaving Liverpool. Madeira. Las Palmas. Sierra Leone. Takoradi. Accra. Lagos. Bonny. Port Harcourt.

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925- ...

Crossing Niger. Young Isaac Waltons. Dancing Class. Asaba, Mbieri, Amawbia. Mbaku (leader run amok) Ugwu-Awba.

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the ...

Dancing competitions and various masks. Umu-Chuku, Mbaku & Amanuke. Grandfather Maw, Enu-Ugwu-Abaw; Spirit maidens (Aghogho Mmonwui); District Officer mask (Onyeocha)?; Native Police masks. Nibo. Umu-Chuku Maws. Mgbedike masks.

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Various scenes in and around a girls school on the Niger Delta.

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and ...

Girls' dance groups.

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and 'Among the Ibo') about the Ibo of Nigeria, ...

Various scenes on the Niger Delta. River trade. Music. Blacksmith. Mission hospital. Varoius shots of church-going Africans in European dress, numerous African church ministers, African choirboys.

Production / Donor Details: ...

Various dances and masquerades, possibly at a funeral. Funeral celebrations and sacrifices. Dancing and masks. Final part of film.

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and ...

Negative exposed reel of Basden Collection 4

Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and 'Among the Ibo') ...

Local people and coastal scenes on the Gold Coast around Elmina.

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.

Scenes showing work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast.

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.

Sequence of shots of exterior of gold mine. Men with large dead snake. Sequence of very good group and individual posed shots of local people in traditional costume.

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley ...

Scenes include work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.

Various sporting scenes - tennis, sailing, an African sports event with colonial spectators. Includes sack race, bicycle race, women in running race carrying pots on heads.

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter ...

Grandma's visit, Shad Valance Thika, Jardini holiday, Arusha Holiday, city park, Arboreliern, coffee trees.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and ...

Mitchell Park Show,

Thika

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in Nairobi. She married a motor ...

Wedding of Mary Beatrice Leithead & Alan Martin Shadrack at St. Francis Church, Karen, near Nairobi on 30th July 1960. Reception at Shadracks' House Rhino Park Road, Karen.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil ...

East Africa Airways - visiting.

Scenes believed to be of various cities & towns - Mombasa, Zanzibar, Nairobi, Gedi, Mbarara, Mwanza, Iringa, Dar-es -Salaam, Bagamoyo, Tanga, Namanca?.

Murchison Falls. Ruins of an Arab ...

1961

Queen Elizabeth Park - river trip, animals, birds, performence of local tribal dance. Livingstone. Victoria Falls.

An African sunset taken from the air.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a ...

Nevasa, Suez, Port Said, Cairo, Gibraltar. Jean + Glen at Barcelona, setting sun.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications ...

Kilimanjaro

Game. Sarah & Simon Bell, Bell's House (Nairobi)

Peter Kenyatta

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications ...

Sarah-Pineapple, dog show, Helicofter, swimming, Mombasa, seaside.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in ...

Housing and street scenes, estuary harbour life (probably Lagos) also showing some Western shipping but mostly African craft and fishermen.

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...

King Jimmy Market/ Waterslide Market/ Sulima

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the ...

Freetown/Sussex

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...

Scenes in Sierra Leone

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...

At home in Sierra Leone

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...

Aeroplane landing.

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...

Most of the film features the Birches and friends young and old at leisure on the beaches of Sussex bay on the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone. Some sequences demonstrate its beautiful setting; others also show native settlements ...