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    Williams Collection

    Uganda: independence parade. Various floats representing aspects of the country. Fruitbats (?). Gardening. Birdlife. Crossing the Nile by ferry. Torrential rain in garden. Car maintenance.

    Production / Donor Details: Ellis ...

     
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    LOOK AT LIFE

    A look a the British base at Aden, now GHQ Middle East under one commanding officer. A visit by the aircraft carrier HMS Centaur coincides with 'Aden Forces Week', also present was Harold Watkinson, Defence Minister.

     
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    Crazy World War II comedy, based on Gibraltar's Barbary Apes legend.

     
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    HUNGER 1962

    A film looking at hunger and its causes, particularly politics and power struggles. It opens with scenes of hungry children, and the admonishment that the hungry know they need not be hungry, and looking at the disparity between the rich and the poor ...

     
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    Survey of the life of the islanders and their reaction to modern life.

    Pitcairn Island in 1962 was an exceedingly remote place inhabited by a very small number of people – just 128, according to The Pitcairn People’s ...
     
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    Hargreaves Collection

    Ship journey. Diving, underwater footage of fish: puffer fish, rays. Location unclear. Some footage of South Africa: Table mountain. Duke & Duchess of Kent visit Owen Falls. Journey in middle east: Suez canal. Air journey: views of ...

     
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    Hargreaves Collection

    Jinja sailing club? Flora. Owen Falls - water stopped, September 1962

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    The story of HMS Belfast's 1961-1962 Far East commission.

    The World's Fair at Seattle holds no surprises for the men of HMS Belfast - since they were flown out to their ship at Singapore in ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    HMS Protector takes off a Royal Society expedition from the island of Tristan da Cunha, evacuated the previous year after a volcanic eruption.

    Captain Graham of the Protector meets members of ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB

    I. Reel Two. LS along the quayside at Labuan as soldiers disembark from HMS Tiger. HA from the ship to the quayside - a group of men disperse after a short briefing, soldiers await transport, their arms laid ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB

    Reel One. HMS Albion enters Singapore. Sequence shot from the quayside as troops disembark with their kit to board waiting transport. A band is playing to welcome them. A soldier kisses a baby held up by his ...

     
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    GB

    RAF film on the aircraft and role of Transport Command.

    The film shows how aircraft such as the Bristol Britannia, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, De Havilland Comet and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were ...

     
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    GB

    Part of Command Activities Series

    Notes

    Content information copied from SSVC RAF Catalogue of Training Films & Video Tapes 1989

     
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    GB

    Report examines Gibraltar's precarious economic situation and the Rock's strategic importance to Britain.

    Too small for industry, declining in importance as a passenger and trade sea-port, dependent on hostile Spain ...

     
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    GB

    The Duke of Edinburgh's South American tour.

    Specific aim of tour was to discover opportunities for British business in this potentially wealthy continent which Britain helped develop last century, but which has ...

     
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    GB

    Kenya government's Land Development and Settlement Board scheme to encourage Africans to return to the land and farm small five to ten acre plots is forcing large landowners in scheduled areas to sell up . Two such farmers, an English settler living ...

     
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    GB

    Report from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, follows the apparently similar working day of a middle-class white, a butcher, and a middle-class African, a brewery representative, then lets a group of whites and a group of ...

     
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    GB

    Report on "Operation Noah" and on efforts to tackle another ecological problem created by the construction of the Kariba Dam, the spread of a floating water fern.

    Wildlife is being stranded on small islands behind ...

     
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    GB

    British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.

    British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...