Travelogue, following a journey from Mexico to Borneo, via Singapore, covering local flora, wildlife, peoples and customs.

The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods.

Over a map of Barbados, a West Indian voiceover outlines a history of the island - 'Barbados is the only island which has always remained British since its ...

Travelogue of the air journey from London To Capetown.

Documentary on the development of an air mail service over the British Empire.

AMATEUR FILM. Scenes in and round the medical service building. Huskies pulling sleds across the ice, steam ship in background possibly stuck in ice (25). Men in grounds of medical building walking very unsteadily (50). Inside the centre a man's legs ...

AMATEUR FILM of a husky and sled journey and a medical centre and orphanage in St Anthony set up by Wilfrid T. Grenfell, an English medical missionary.

LS iceberg, huskies crossing ice to icebound steamship. Ship moves forward a small distance. ...

Gibraltar, Port Said, Suez Canal, Aden. Ex-P&O ship 'Narkunda' to HMS Penzance. Scenes around Dehra Dun. Himalayas from Mussoori. Kashmir merchant shows his goods. Indian funeral cortege. "John Chinaman has his turn". Family scenes with a bemused ...

Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans on beach with dogs. "INDIA - THE SEA MAY BE A BARRIER OR A BRIDGE" "INDIA---BRITAIN THE SEA SEPERATES ...

START 00:00:00 Flying operations on the fleet aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in the Mediterranean: RAF deck crewmen dash towards a Blackburn Ripon II biplane torpedo bomber after it has just landed on the flight deck. A D Class destroyer HMS Delight ( ...

Compilation film in five episodes of the Indian forces on the Western Front, Mesopotamian Front and Palestine Front, 1915-1918.

I. The first reel shows men of the Indian Corps (including British soldiers) in France ...

Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Hope Fountain, near Bulawayo, South Rhodesia, training girls and women for community service. Features missionary teachers Miss Ross and Miss Read.

Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at Inyati, near Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia - a Model Native Training Institution with Boys Boarding School and a Practising School.

Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Serowe, Bechuanaland, home to the Bamangwato tribe. Features Semane, widow of Chief Khama, and Khama's son, Chief Tshekedi Khama and his wife.

Samoan Sidelights. Includes three sequences - Sinnet Making (a kind of twine); Samoan Kava ceremony; Roasting the Ceremonial Pig.

Introduction to Samoa featuring footage of Tutuila, Pagopago and Apia, including the work of the Apia Samoan Church. Lava fields at Savai'i. Kava ceremony in Samoan London Missionary Society pastor's house on Savai'i. Also features footage of Vailima, ...

Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society mission ship, John Williams V (launched 1930), and the role of the ship in the life of the mission. Voyage from Suva to Samoa and the Ellice Islands.

Depicts life at mission schools in Samoa, including Papuata Girls' High School, Leulumoega Fou Boys' High School, Malua College and Atauloma Girls' High School.

START 00:00:00 Title 'Pathscope Safety Film presents "Mediterranean 1938 1939"' superimposed over a still of the G Class destroyer HMS Glowworm (pennant number H92) in the Grand Harbour, Malta. On board the battleship HMS Warspite with spray breaking ...

Photographed at Mindolo and Nkana, N. Rhodesia. Depicts work to improve levels of literacy in the mining compounds and surrounding settlements of the Copper Belt, including the Mindolo mission press run by the London Missionary Society for the ...

Quasi-official detailed guided tour of the Colony of Gibraltar with informative intertitles.

Production / Donor Details: Major Wilfred Theodore Blake (1894-1968) was a pioneer aviator, author and traveller.

Amateur footage showing British life style, local people and shots of the pitch industry in Trinidad in the 1930s.

1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.

23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.

Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an around Gantok residency. 10.04 2. Gyantse and west Tibet. 11.20 3. Gantok residency in Sikkim, 1931-2. 4. Ha and Paro ...

Modern missionary work in South Rhodesia, the territory explored and opened up by Livingstone.

Reel One of three.

Victoria Falls. The four-day steam-train journey along the Orange River from the Cape to the Falls, via Mafeking ...

FILM TAKEN IN THE ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN, IN ARABIA AND NORTH AFRICA BY THE SALISBURY ROUND THE WORLD EXPEDITION.