An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.
The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...
Tribal African village life.
"Equatorial Africa". Meeting of the village elders; the chief addressing them; warriors with spears; men returing from jungle with a dead animal. Young, scantily-clad girl skips across the screen ...
A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip "Come On Steve" in Africa, where they must escape local cannibals.
Lord Sandy, the Commissioner, leaves his African ...
Advertising film which shows all aspects of Cadbury's work from the harvesting of cocoa beans, the production of cocoa and chocolate, to the paternal attitude of the company towards their staff.
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Scenes from Hong Kong including: pedestrians in the midday sun; latest fashions in ladies' frocks; men's wear; policemen and sailors in their summerwear; in the city centre and shops; in the side streets. Compiled in 1937 and rearranged in ...
Scenes of Hong Kong, including: a variety of people in winter clothes; shops and shop signs; Christmas decorations in shops; the opening of a new church for Chinese Methodists; people in oriental costume; the native quarter (including a ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son
The life of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the building of the Suez Canal.
Family in the British Colonial Service in West Africa. Their son revolts against the life and becomes involved with a trouble making scientist. He and his gang are eventually killed and the son escapes.
Hong Kong scenes including: the Lido at Repulse Bay; a Chinese bathing club and Dragon Boat race; the filmmakers leave their house on a day trip; harvest time in the rice fields; the filmmakers' bungalow and the beach at Ting Kau.
INTEREST. Aspects of life among the Swazi; parts of the Kingship and First-Fruits Ceremony, or Incwala, shown. Shots of countryside (60-84). Cattle on the road (96). Administration buildings, some white ...
Amateur footage of a journey which originated in Syria showing scenes in Egypt and the return voyage home to Britain.
Luxor, street scenes, temples the Colossi and the photographer, Cuthbert Wigham. Crossing the Nile. Sakkara, crossing the desert ...
British Honduras: scenes on a typical tour to find suitable land for agriculture, including a forestry survey with forest officers. Shows typical transport hazards.
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Leisure, ceremonial, and celebrations in British Honduras, including a regatta and cricket matches. Followed by plantation work and bridge construction.
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British Honduras: river scenes with boats, jungle and village scenes and soil surveying with Professor Hardy.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Harold Smart OBE. Mr. Smart was born in Lesotho ( ...
Basutoland: dam building and ploughing. shots of daughter Shirley.
Nyasaland: ferrying the car across the boundary river; the rail terminus; on the lake; loading rice at the lake port.
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Clearing forest for banana plantation. Cultivation (including air spraying of crops) and harvesting and transportation of the crop to the port for export to Europe. Loading of ocean freighters and ocean voyage (including stop at ...
AMATEUR. Bazaar scenes; oil fields and oil rigs; winches; man going down oil well; ball game played with feet.
Colonel Hodgkinson and friends - poolside at the Taiping Swimming Club, Malaysia.
A sign on a fence reads 'No Dogs Allowed'. Shot of a dog looking up, cut to a sign and swimming pool ...
Colonel Hodgkinson and friends - poolside at the Taiping Swimming Club, Malaysia.
A man and woman take it in turns to dive from a diving board. Others follow, some in slow-motion, some ...
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY SPLITTING AND WEAVING PALM LEAVES
Amateur film. Tanggye; bazaar scenes; Inle Lake Buddhist festival - rowing through rushes in procession, decorated boats; last Durbar ever performed by the Governor.
Romance of Tarzan and Jane.
