ETHNOLOGY. Some of the customs of the Swazi.
"Killing the bull" ceremony for rain. The old warriors of the tribe dance and chant inside the cattle kraal watched by young women (24-82); the young warriors dance in front of the young ...
"AFRICA WORLD WAR COMFORTS SERVICE. Pleasure trips on the Thames. June 1918 (10). Wounded Springboks at Windsor and Eton College (13). The 'Sunbury Belle' arrives at Windsor Wharf. Typical scenes on board. Little friends entertain our ...
ROMANCE. Donald, the Colonel's son, appears cowardly as the result of torture in Africa. He woos and weds the gipsy Rilka. His gipsy rival persuades her to leave but Donald recovers his nerve and regains Rilka.
R.1. Title and ...
"Triumph of the Motor Tractor over the tracts of the wilderness in Palestine". Holt tractor pulling limber and men through the desert in Palestine. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (44ft).
A secret agent spies for the Kaiser's Germany as a double agent, but is able to clear his name with the woman he loves.
Part of the record made by Lowell Thomas of the Middle East campaign.
Incomplete Issue. Items include:
IN TARGET LAND "Recording hits from guns great and small" (56ft).
THE ETERNAL CAMEL "The desert still defies Man to invent a transport substitute for the camel which marches to War in Palestine ...
"Mosque and picturesque scenes in Palestine now occupied by the British". Mosque of Omar and surrounding buildings. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (60ft).
Gurkha and British troops during the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine Front, November 1917.
Gurkhas in a trench prepare for the assault and attack. They are probably 3/3rd Battalion, the Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, ...
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orlans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 1914, the line at the end of 1914, the line after the ...
Scenes of Gaza and its surroundings shortly after its capture by British forces, Palestine Front, November 1917.
(Reel 1) A panorama of Gaza under British occupation. (The two ships described as shallow draft ...
I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, 11 December 1917.
I. Views of the honour guard at the Jaffa Gate, composed of English, Welsh, Scottish, ...
