New York; "Florida" - Fort Pierce - Miami; "Caribbean Islands"; Cuba; Montego Bay airport; St Kitts - aerial shot of islands, harvesting on estate, buildings, markets, Blairmont factory, from boat. "Bauxite Workings Mackenzie, [British ...
The implementation of the Land Husbandry Act, th people involved and the progress it has had on agriculture and the social economy.
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves and murderers.
The following statement regarding the story prior to the opening credits: 'For hundreds of years ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Alex Swann while serving on submarine depot ship HMS Forth of the 3rd Submarine Flotilla between September 1956 and November 1958 records family and tourist scenes in harbour, and his own ship in dry dock ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; 1948 Arab-Israeli war and armistice. The advent of Nasser ...
The visit of General Gruenther, Supreme Commander, SHAPE visits NATO HQ Malta at the invitation of C-in-C Mediterranean.
General Gruenther arrives at Luqa Airport, Malta. He welcomes Admiral ...
English garden domestic scenes with dogs. Hong Kong harbour & views of houses on hills surrounding city. Confrontation with Chinese soldiers at the boarder High Dam under construction. Japanese county villas. Coach parties standing by ...
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 ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana. Tour begins in Cairo.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between ...
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between 1942 and 1955. This ...
Shots of life in the Gold Coast, March to July 1955
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between 1942 and 1955. In 1956 he took up a post as Lecturer in Tropical Agriculture at ...
Sisal growing.
Amateur footage showing the British life style in Mauritius during the 1950s and 1960s.
Film taken in northern Nigeria including impressions of the people and their lifestyle, and more specific shots relating to Ms Spencer's nursing work with mothers, children and babies.
Production / Donor Details: Mrs ...
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; ...
The enlarging and improving of Takoradi Harbour in the Gold Coast.
Amateur. Scenes in Tanga on the coast of Tanzania.
View from bungalow looking over to coast - Pemba Island (?) Black servant with a large fish. Views of ships in harbour. Small fishing boats. Telecommunications tower. General views ...
Lumberman's campaign to find and destroy a renegade white man who is leader of ferocious native tribe which terrorises an area in E. Africa.
Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ostriches. The migration of buffaloes and other herds. Birdlife, tortoises and snakes.
Government information film about a coastal irrigation and rice growing scheme.
Malaya imports food, buying rice from abroad with money desperately needed for schools and homes. Tanjong Karang is an attempt to increase ...
Government information film about a coastal irrigation and rice growing scheme. Tanjong was once a vast wilderness of swamp and forest. Yet Malaya urgently needed more rice-land. So, with modern machines, the jungle ...
Story of how an American adventurer foils a Red plot to blow up Hong Kong.
Tarzan to the rescue of the occupants of a plane that has crashed in Africa jungle. He saves them from white hunter who wants to hand them over to African tribe in exchange for ivory.
