The history of Basutoland and its people provides a background to the problem of murder for medicine in that country. The ritual killing and mutilation of victims by a group of people under the orders of their chief in order to make up ...
The first Bata shoe fashion show at the Raffles hotel, Singapore. Features models from Singapore's Mannequin school and music from Giancarlo's Italian show band.
Record of Baptist Missionary Society tour led by Sir Herbert Janes of various locations in Sierra Leone. Opens with boat leaving Liverpool and shots of journey. Predominantly consists of shots of black urban and rural life with less ...
Film of the signing of the Anglo-Malayan Mutual Defence Treaty on October 12, 1957.
The various participants arrive and assemble; the treaty (a defence agreement between Britain and Malaya) is signed. Close-up of ...
Taken by HMS Ceylon. Full details of signing ceremony, speeches etc in docket CNI 38/51.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.
Story of an Englishman involved with the Mau Mau in Kenya.
Training of the first 400 of Singapore's National Servicemen.
The life of Singapore and variety provided by the many different cultures and cu stoms which find expression there.
Title cards. Shots filmed from a vessel as it enters the harbour. Singapore is 'the seventh largest port in the world'. Passenger cargo boat arriving at the port, five European travellers disembark. Male traveller taking in the view. Views ...
Study of Singapore's first general election.
Electioneering posters for the first election to Assembly with an elected majority. `The Vote Is Secret'. Canvassing. The candidates, David Marshall (Labour Front) addresses workers in a square ...
The story of J.L. Wilson, Bishop of Singapore arrested by the Japanese Security Police for spying in 1943. His enduring faith throughout his emprisonment led some of his captors to conversion to the Christian religion.
Travelogue on Singapore, one of the world's natural junctions and one of the greatest international ports.
The port; street scenes, warehouses, junks unloading timber, the interior of a warehouse, different produce being unloaded eg, ...
Native craft; deep-draught vessels; dry docks; pipe-loading of latex; rubber pla ntations; pineapple fields; the battle of malaria; internal transport including the "trishaw".
Visit of Sir Anthony Eden and CIGS (Field Marshal Harding) to 848 Squadron RN, Malaya.
(Reel 1) Display of trooping lifting and parachute techniques evolved by the Royal Navy and the SAS. Sir ...
Composite items from NORTHERN AND RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTS , all concerning Sir Gilbert Rennie
Traces the history of the development of the production of the hard fibre, sisal, and shows growth and processing, and finally the many uses of the fibre. Sisal is one of the greatest industries of East ...
Film of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon "Small World" in December 1958. The crew, who designed the ballon and planned the whole voyage consisted of Arnold "Bushy" Eiloart (Commander ...
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 ...
Story of two men, one white and the other black, raised in friendship all their lives who become enemies during the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya. From a novel of Robert Ruark
Maps show how the growing of a varied range of crops is possible; native life and subsistence farming on the Low Veld; commercial cultivation of maize, tobacco, cotton, fruit and barley on the high Veld.
Compilation of Northern Spotlights no's 1-7.
Remote Beauty Spots. [Northen Spotlight No 1]. A visit by three South African delegates to Abercorn and the surrounding area, to investigate tourism posibilities. c. 50ft.
The Sovereign's ...
"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 ...
Ships of the British Home Fleet pay goodwill visits to islands in the West Indies and then join Canadian ships for joint exercise in the North Atlantic.
After some scenes from the outward voyage (including refuelling ...
I. Entry of Mediterranean and Home Fleet ships into Grand Harbour, Malta (15th March 1952).
I. Long distance shot of fleet approaching Malta. HMS Superb (wearing flag of FO Flotillas "Home" ...
