Amateur film. Tanker leaving `Southern Harvester'; arriving Leith Harbour; `Southern Harvester' from the air; whale thrashing; whales alongside `Southern Harvester'.

Amateur film. Leith Harbour; floating dock; pumps; `Southern Harvester'; floating factory; gunner in corvette; pipes for blowing; playing the whale.

Story of naval captain's apparently successful discovery of perfect way of life and how feminine vagaries transform his happiness into a fool's paradise.

A film depicting the Caribbean islands - West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras - and highlighting the traditional customs and songs, before showing the modern developments and welfare services available.

The film opens ...

Travelogue of Jamaica.

I. Hawker Sea Fury 098 takes off from Illustrious Class aircraft carrier. Safety barrier lifts behind aircraft.

II. Camera pans to follow small formations and individual Firefly aircraft as they fly past aircraft carrier.

III. Flight deck ...

Travel short about a Merchant Navy engineer who calls at Hong Kong, Bangkok and other Eastern cities prior to accepting a berth in the Orient.

Depicting life on a cedar plantation in Central Africa, showing the nursery, pine tree plantation, pest control, trout fishing and wild plants and flowers.

Survey on resources of Northern and Southern Rhodesia, natural and human. Scenes in Lusaka and Salisbury. Southern Rhodesian delegation arrives in London for conference on future of the Rhodesia.

Royal Marines at Gibraltar, February 1954.

Part 2 contains scenes of Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon H A McMillen (the Governor General of Gibraltar) and aides-de-campe crossing by jackstay ...

Progress in the territory, showing schools, universities, buildings, education and political development.

Part 1. Sir John and Lady Edelsten arrive at Customs House. Inspection of combined Army and RAF guard of honour. Arrival at Customs House of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Creasy; the C-in-C and Lady Edelsten make their ...

Chartered aircraft crash in Malta, February 1956: general view of wreckage showing personnel clearing debris.

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ACTUALITY. Local chieftains at an official function in Nigeria.

A party for British children onboard HMS Forth, submarine depot ship at Malta.

LA.LS from quayside to HMS Forth alongside - a huge Father Christmas figure has been erected as if in the act of ...

Film on the Copper Belt region of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), specifically the interaction of Christianity and commerce in this region and the work of the United Mission to the Copper Belt (in which the London Missionary society was a partner). The ...

Film on the role played by British forces in Cyprus, focusing on the balance between celebrations and the need to continue operations against EOKA.

Men of the 1st Battalion the Royal Ulster Regiment land from the ...

The visit of Winston Churchill to Jamaica in January 1953.

The film opens with the arrival of Winston Churchill at Montego Bay airport on Friday 9 January 1953 on board the 'Independence', the personal plane of the President of the ...

ACTUALITY. Procession to the City Hall in Singapopre, the arrival of the Governor and the Duchess, inspection of the guard of honour, speeches and the ceremony.

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks to blow up British fleet off Gibraltar.

The history of coffee-growing and a detailed description of the coffee industry in East Africa.

First shown in Nairobi in March 1959, the film was made on location throughout East Africa, including ...

HMS Tyne at Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises.

Flag Officers arrive on board HMS Tyne at Grand Harbour, Malta. FO's meeting in C-in-C's Dining cabin.

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Scenes in and around Malta during Combined Fleet Exercises, Mediterranean 1955.

Combined Fleet formed up prior to entering Grand Harbour. Harbour entrance and Valletta. Firing the Royal ...