Film of Michael Stewart, Foreign Secretary, being interviewed on the Rhodesian situation shortly after the resignation of Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs' resignation.

The film indicates, among other things, why things ...

"PRELUDE TO CONFLICT" asks why it was allowed to happen and finds the weakness of states created at Versailles, change in Russia, the delusions of grandeur of a poor and humiliated Germany, rise of European dictators and ...

The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The majority of the film is shot during independence celebrations held in Maiduguri, Bornu Province, ...

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.

Tracing the development of Gallagher's tobacco company and showing modern factories in Great Britain and the farm in Rhodesia where the tobacco is grown.

GOVERNMENT FILM. A record of the Queen's visit to the Gambia in 1962.

A report on the dispute between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar.

THE REFERENDUM OF SEPTEMBER 10TH 1967 IN WHICH ƒGIBRALTAR> VOTED TO REMAIN A BRITISH COLONY

A tour of Gibralter.

The people of Grenada - their everyday work and life, their occupations, what they grow and their native customs. Intended for children aged 10-11 years.

A British regiment stationed in a newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal is ordered to hand over command to the African Captain Abraham pending the result of political ...

Family Safari in Bechuanaland (Botswana). It contains other interesting scenes of family life and work in progress.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Gibbs was a Surveyor with the Directorate of Overseas Surveys. He was in Northern ...

Family Safari in Bechuanaland (Botswana). It contains other interesting scenes of family life and surveying work in progress.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Gibbs was a Surveyor with the Directorate of Overseas Surveys. He was ...

Family on holidays in South Africa and Norway and life and work in Zambia.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Gibbs was a Surveyor with the Directorate of Overseas Surveys. He was in Northern Rhodesia between 1962/63, and in ...

Film made by the COI for the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. Shows how African children live, the schools they go to, and the type of education they can receive with the help of teachers from England. Also ...

Sequences showing the record of a great number of journeys made and visits to road and airfield construction in many parts of Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons, and also an international conference of road engineers in Mozambique ...

Pictures Lagos in 1955-61 with its fringes of old villages and the Brazilian Quarter of the city, in the process of being superseded. The work of the Lagos Executive Development Board is shown, and some road and bridge construction and ...

1. Military moments ; N. Rhodesian 1st. Battalion's last parade before Independence Day 1964. Last Queen's Birthday Parade at Ndola (Regular Army, T.A. and Police Units participating) Pres. Kaunda visiting a T.F. camp at Tug Argan ...

Life with the N. Rhodesian Regiment: Zambian army's riot drill 1967; a flight over the Zambesi to Kariba; the Blue Train on a journey from Bulawayo to Cape Town 1968; a voyage on the SS Oranje (Union Castle Line) Capetown to ...

Passing out parade of European NE trainees at the NSTE, Bulawayo; 1961 World Trade Fair; A European wedding with footage of typical 1960's women's and children's clothes. Also family footage.

Production / Donor Details: Major ...

1. the opening of the Zambian National Assembly 1964 - with tribal dancing, official celebrations and speech from the rostrum. 2. Family footage (visit to official gardens in Salisbury, Army family quaters, family pets, children ...

Navy Documentary film set onboard the Centaur Class aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R.12).

Includes interviews with LAEM (Leading Air Engineering Mechanic) John McCulloch, LAEM 'Scouse' Aitken and LAEM Ken Middleton. ...

A journalist becomes involved with a gang in Hong Kong by means of a microfilm found accidentally, with nightclub dancer and girl journalist complications.

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 ...

Amateur film shot by Ordnance Officer Lieutenant G Moss, assisted by Ordnance Artificer Don Hayward, on board HMS Belfast during the ship's Far Eastern commission under command of Captain Morgan-Giles, gives disjointed ...

HMS Centaur embarks men of 45 Royal Marine Commando, Ferret armoured cars of 16/5 Lancers, and RAF Belvedere helicopters for the voyage from Aden to Tanganyika.

LS pan over Aden ...

A pictorial record of activity on HMS Hermes during her second commission, starting in the Mediterranean and ending in Hong Kong.

Aerial sequence showing HMS Hermes entering Grand Harbour ...

Observers on a coastal range report the fall of shot to HMS Lion as she carries out a bombardment.

A party arrive by jeep at the coastal site to observe the bombardment and report the fall of ...

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 ...

I. Gemini inflatables carry ashore a party of marines and sailors from HMS Rothesay. The sailors, armed with No 4 rifles, pick their way over the inhospitable terrain. They comb the beach area. A prisoner is brought in, hands ...

Amateur film shot by Midshipman Ian Shuttleworth while serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East between August 1963 and September 1964 during Confronation in Borneo records leave in Hong Kong, carrier and helicopter activity, Crossing the Line ...

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 ...

C-in-C Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley, leaves Malta in HMS Tiger to render a salute to the US task group carrying President Eisenhower.

Aerial sequence showing HMS Tiger at sea ...

En route to Hong Kong HMS Victorious exercises her crew in riot squad drill. The exercise is not taken very seriously. In Reels Two and Three Victorious has reversed course and is steaming ...

Measures being taken against communism in Hong Kong. With Sir David Trench, P.S. Woo, David Lai, Elsie Elliott, and police commissioner T.C. Eates

The landscape, life and culture of Hong Kong together with its industrial potent ial and development

Mainland Chinese refugees in Hong Kong.

Amateur film shot by Major Allan Cameron of 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers when serving at Headquarters 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade records scenes of military and local life, including contrast between Chinese shanty towns and wealth, ...

The geography of Hong Kong: its importance as a great free sea port; its growth as a manufacturing city and the efforts being made to house and provide work for refugees from China

Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...

Hovercraft SRN5 is tested as a patrol and transport craft.

CUs of Captain Peter Beacon at the controls as the hovercraft moves off. CUs of the radar and radio operators, and ...

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 ...

Mute film of the 13/18 Hussars on duty in the Far East.

Checkpoint: local people searched. Morris 1000 passes armoured vehicle. (Blank 25 ft to 27 ft) Woman puts out washing in garden of house (troops' accommodation ...

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 ...