STREETS OF CAIRO 1928
Cairo and the river Nile.
Cairo and the river Nile.
How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.
The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as the intertitles provide facts about the palms. Africans are shown climbing the trees - 'the natives climb the palms by ...
Amateur film of New Delhi. Street scenes. Fountains. Show jumping and horse artillery on parade. AV from a plane. Interior of plane. Personal film of children on ski-ing slopes and playing in wood. Cricket at Batyana High School.
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Malaya.
No main title. "A prominent land-mark - Government House, residence of the Governor of the Strait Settlements" (4). LS Government House in Singapore (?) (18). "The railway-traveller through Malaya ...
Travelogue. Commander Glen Kidston's trip to Africa, including a safari and a visit to a plantation.
No titles. LS of docks and large cranes (3). MCU of man reading `Photography for the Amateur' and smiling at the camera (17). A ...
"H.R.H. the Duke of York takes the salute in Hyde Park". Shot from behind the Duke of York as he salutes one of the sections marching past in the background.` Brigade and Standard bearers of the Girls' Life Brigade and the ...
First section of a floating dock leaves Newcastle for Singapore (44ft).
"INTEREST. Travelogue" The film opens with a map of Africa with pointer showing places on the railway line (89-117)(150-166); Lobito Bay, the starting point of the railway (192-222); a ship loading at Lobito dock (230-277); the SS Angola ...
Amateur film. The first film taken by Salvesen of the new floating factory. Leaving South Georgia late September 1928. Shots taken from `Saragossa' of rough seas between South Georgia and ice; two floating factories without stern slips; ...
9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of the Nile. Esvah barrage/dam. Coming down the Nile from Luxor, views of the banks and boats ...
Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in 1929.