Cinemagazine for African distribution. This issue contains items on road building in Kenya and on animals from Kenya at London Zoo.
'Kenya - builds roads' Kenya village, straw huts. Bulldozer clearing land to ...
Economic problems of Jamaica today and the struggle for survival.
At Loughborough College colonials study co-operative methods.
Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa co-operative society manages the collection and marketing of the produce.
Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer, harvests and ...
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include:
COAL - OWNERSHIP TRANSFER RUGBY - SCOTLAND FAIL AGAINST FRANCE MONTY FOR MOSCOW REFUGEE IMMIGRANTS REACH PALESTINE SEA STORIES AUSTRALIA RETAINS 'THE ASHES'
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS... MALTA PARIS MALAYA'S GIFT TO ROYAL COUPLE
INTEREST. Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947: 31st Jan. 1947 - Royal cars leaving Buckingham Palace, cheering crowds, drive down Mall. Boarding train at Waterloo Station (22). Boarding H.M.S. Vanquard at Portsmouth (32). Sitting on deck ...
Story of pearl smuggler's adventures in Singapore.
Report on the Royal visit.
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE TO CLOSE FEN GAP FAREWELL TO THE NEW VICEORY (LORD AND LADY MOUNTBATTEN LEAVE FOR INDIA) (DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ARRIVES BACK IN LONDON) TRIBESMEN ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA DRAWS TEST WITH ENGLAND INDIA ACCEPTS THE PLAN KING ABDULLAH IN JERUSALEM TUDOR MINSTREL FAILS
A story of Rhodesia intended for potential European immigrants. The film highlights the contemporary conditions of life there, outlining the main industries and the standard of living for the African and white inhabitants.
Opening ...
A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.
Over footage of a beach, scrolling titles introduce the film. 'The colonies are the responsibility of the British ...
Outline of the Royal Family's tour of Southern Rhodesia in 1947.
Landscape. A plane lands at Salisbury; George VI and Princess Margaret step out. A second plane arrives; Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth are greeted by Sir John ...
"Cecil Rhodes brought peace to what is now Southern Africa. The Africans were a primitive people...superstitious and wasteful...". An African describes what his people have learnt from the white man: new and improved crops, soil erosion, ...
Includes: redundancies in British factories caused by fuel shortages; British youths emigrating as colonists from Britain to Rhodesia.
Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.
Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.
INTEREST. Travelogue. The island of Bermuda as a holiday resort. Includes the ceremonial handing over of office from one Governor General to another. A trip around the island by carriage. St Peter's Church and Gibb's Hill lighthouse.
Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.
'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, Lagos 19/4/1947, the venue of the AAA meeting. Europeans and ...
Amateur film. Corvette catcher; man hauled up from whale catcher; tanker; helicopter; football ground; Leith Harbour; tanks.
The historic past, cultural and economic present and potential future of Palestine are all portrayed as (mainly implicit) criticism of "the tension and uncertainty of the last 25 years."
Film of the Jordan valley and ...
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides a brief and uncritical review of progress made in Nigeria - Lagos converted from a ...
The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.
On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...
(22B/second series) June/July 1947: Dr Magnes (President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem) addresses members of UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine), speaking in English at the end of a luncheon; Sandstrom chairman of UNSCOP ...
(16B/second series) July/August 1946: With the leadership of the Jewish Agency imprisoned by the British on 29th June 1946 (called by the Jews 'Black Sabbath') Golda Meir was in acting command of the Jewish Agency. As an act of defiance she ...
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram Militia on the North-West Frontier records social and military activity, and the landscape, between August 1946 and ...
Record for regimental historical purposes of the presentation of new colours to the 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D L A Gibbs, in Singapore on 10 July 1947.
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Amateur film with titles shot by Dr David Bates of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) while serving with the British Army in Occupied Japan records mainly scenes of traditional rural life and religious festivals, but also shows the devastation at ...
Indian troops on parade. Independent India flag visible in background. Sikh troops with red turbans and white spats. Shot of the Gateway to India archway in Bombay. Shot of memorial. A flypast. A rainbow over a ...
Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence in 1948) ...
Offcuts from several of Colonel Hodgkinson's films.
Aerial shots of a river and surrounding jungle. Brief shot of vehicles ascending a mountain track, some snow on adjacent ...
Amateur film of a young woman surrounded by crowds on an Indian street. Colonel Hodgkinson does not identify who Althya is - it is possible that she is Althya Clark Youngman, an American ...
An Indain man and two women sitting on a bench in the grounds of Government House, New Delhi. A man walks towards the camera carrying a large basket of flowers on his head. A large group of servants. A group (British), ...
Close-up of a lamp? on the side of a building with a crown on top. Scenes of the Governor General's Bodyguards (mounted Sikhs with red tunics), Government House, New Delhi. Detailed close-up of one of the guard. Close ...
Two women (Ditty Hodgkinson, wife of Colonel Hodgkinson and Edythe?) and a man walk through the gardens of Government House, New Delhi. The two women walk towards the pond. Ditty picks a small orange? from a tree and ...
A group shot of members of the (first) Indian cabinet, although, other than close-ups of Nehru and Lord Mountbatten, only one or two other faces are seen .
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Views of a military display by Indian troops. Manipuri? dancers perform. More troops and a military band march past. A motorcycle display. More Manipuri? dancing.
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A young Indian woman stands on a station platform, holding a package. Acharya J B Kripalani about to board a train, poses for the camera with two guards. Brief shot (from behind) of a groom? in a red turban surrounded ...
A crowd of people at a railway station, Acharya J B Kripalani in the centre. People sit in the street selling goods. A brief shot of a fakir? View of the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta.
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Two Indian men, one holds a long handled axe, the other a rifle. Close-up of a man posing with a pistol. Close-up of part of a hand-made rifle? Close-up of a man demonstrating a pistol. Another close-up of the hand-made ...
An officer (arm badge is a red eagle on a black background) stands in front of a wall map of India, talking and pointing at the map, particularly at Punjab and the Northwest Frontier. A close-up of the officer in front ...
Punjab, India.
Shot of refugees crowded onto a stationary train, others try to climb aboard. Aerial views of stationary trains and refugees.
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Scenes at refugee camp Punjab, Northwest India.
Brief shot of Lady Mountbatten talking to people at a refugee camp. Two men in a street take leaflets from a man in a bookshop. Refugees ...
Scenes of Lord and Lady Mountbatten leaving Government House, Delhi.
A presentation ceremony; Lord Mountbatten presents awards/plaques to troops outside Government House?. A shot of RAF ...
Lord Mountbatten shaking hands with Indian officials at airport? Lady Mountbatten, one of her daughters (Patricia?) and Nehru walk past. A man holds two ceremonial swords? mounted on a wooden base (a further close-up ...
