Lord Grenfell lays the foundation stone of the Malta Pavilion for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. Scenes of construction. Filmed by Hutchins and Heath (99ft).

Footage of Sir Harry Lauder's round the world trip, camp life in Africa (?).

Cherry Kearton's journey in the Congo, showing wildlife along the course of Semliki River.

Convoy of troops and camel trains along (?) Khyber Pass enters camp. CU Camels. Mules and camp activities.

Animation. Silhouette, white on black.

"Lyman H. Howe presents Hunting Lions in Africa" (3). A man on the back of an elephant shoots at a lion. The lion retaliates and chases the man and elephant. Monkeys run up palm trees out of the path of ...

No main title. "Messrs. J. Walkden's Store" (3). LS of the store, name clearly seen, a European man stands outside, a group of Africans (Hausa) leave the store (17). "Messrs. Christian's Stre" (20). Two Europeans walk down a path from the ...

DRAMA. Mesopotamia. Captain Richard Galt is appointed as political officer to El Ragi and becomes popular with the natives. He falls in love with a native girl which is used by his political opponents to stir up rebellion. The ...

The Dugmore-Harris expedition to East Africa which was made to photograph wildlife in its natural surroundings. From a hide by a water-hole the following are observed:-

R1.1. Oryx (401-587); Marabou stork (589-752); eagle (735-775); ...

Amateur footage of train at platform with guard of honour; parade. Original label mentioned Prince of Wales.

Newsreel compilation of stories shot between May 1923 and August 1923.

"TIDWORTH TATTOO Musical Ride by the 12th Lancers." (31st July 1923 1290 (3)) (4). [No picture]. Gaumont Logo (5). "ENGLAND'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL. Head Master ...

Travelogue of Fiji: Fijians making baskets and mats from coconut palms; ripening bananas in a pit; making kava; preparing a fire-walking pit; sailing in outriggers.

Srinagar waterways street scenes; Martand ruins. A European intervenes in a fight(?) between a man and a boy. The European leads the boy away.

Includes the item 'West Africa in England'.

Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of Waziristan scouts (soldiers) - sitting at camp; camel caravan in mountainous terrain. Scouts rushing down rocky hillside, smoke from firing, troops taking avoiding action.

Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of the visit of president Poincare to Jamrud Fort on the Kyhber. Six officers flanking three civilians and the group going off in car. Views inside the fort. Motor and animal traffic on the approach road.

INTEREST. Section from expedition film, showing the village of Ibandha, and Bakonjo tribal dancing.

No main title. Intertitles (18). Bakonjo people pass the camera (35). Four male Bakonjo pose for the camera (40); group of young ...

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 ...

INTEREST. Part of a journey from the Semliki River to the Ituri River in the Congo (Zaire).

Main title (7). Line of porters walk up hillside at the base of the Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori Mountains) (49). The River Semliki on ...

Angus Buchanan's expedition to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. Includes Sir Hugh Clifford and the Executive Council of Nigeria; street markets in Lagos; and various tribes in Nigeria and Niger dancing, hunting and cultivating ...

INTEREST - Travelogue. Shots of jungle, river, waterfalls and sea in Fiji (40); thatched huts built on stilts over a river, a man punting a canoe along, children and dogs on the platforms over the river (80); boy feeding a pig on a ...

The story of the meeting, in Africa, of two men who find that they were the husband and lover of the same woman.

Rl. 1. Captain Bull is in charges of an African outpost. A local witch doctor ...

INTEREST. Journey through the Niger Delta in Nigeria from Onitsha.

No titles. Travelling shot from boat of river bank at Onitsha (47); village, paddle steamer and steamer docked by village (70). "View showing the Golf Course, Offices ...

Prince of Wales attends the closing ceremony of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (75ft).