Uganda: Reel 4 of 4

Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of the Earth.

The film is in four parts, with frequent intertitles. Internal references date ...

Life in Central Africa.

The official film record of the Prince of Wales' tour of India and Burma, 1921-22. Covering Bombay, Poona, Bharatpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Benares, Rangoon, Mandalay, Nepal, Madras, Patiala and the Khyber Pass. Also featuring a tiger hunt, ...

A journey by car and camel, through Persia and on to Quetta in Baluchistan.

Camel caravan (57-68). Man leading mules (71-75). An Englishman setting off for the `back door' of India by car (85-101). Kermanshah, the first ...

Pulley system with yaks walking downhill to pull sleepers up it. Processes in the building of a 2 mile 'wet slide' to transport the sleepers where the river is too fierce - planning the alignment, carpenters shaping the trestles, and bits of the ...

Lord Grenfell lays the foundation stone of the Malta Pavilion for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. Scenes of construction. Filmed by Hutchins and Heath (99ft).

TRAVEL. A journey from London to Japan on the SS Haruna Mari operated by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line (Japan Mail Steamship Co.); followed by scenes in Japan.

Main title (4). "Great Japan" (10). Liverpool Street Station, passengers board trains ( ...

TRAVEL. Scenes on the island of Tristan da Cunha and at Cape Town prior to leaving.

Main Title: `To Tristan da Cunha on HMS "Dublin" - March 1923' (7). Shots of HMS Dublin standing in and then leaving port at Cape Town (64). Left-to- ...

Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; his son and the real Earl are both in love with the same girl, she eventually marries the Earl after the other son is killed in ...

Amateur film.

Girls school run by missionaries - shots of Miss Attlee teaching the girls English games with African actions (e.g. "This is the way we dig our garden" instead of "wash our hands"); Miss Marshall and the girl guides ( ...

The official tour of Mr. Amery through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada between July 1927 and February 1928.

Leaving Smila, Scot's Kirk and English Church. On the Hindustan-Tibet road: preparing mules and loading up, bazaar scenes and native life. Near Narkanda, local farmer ploughing with oxen. Rampur bazaar scenes: buildings, features and locals. Crossing ...

ACTUALITY. Nigeria (or Belgian Congo?): Lord Leverhulme and his host and hostess, followed by three more European men, walk through a garden with palmtrees and a fullsize statue of a woman (15). (Gap) In front of a flight of stairs up to ...

Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of car trip up Khyber Pass - native caravans en route, camels and nomads; broken-down truck being repaired. Aerial ropeway views.

Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of a trip through the Kurram valley south of the Khyber Pass and on the Afghanistan border. Scenes of village life. Cows and sheep on road, buffalo, mule caravans, oxen threshing, winnowing by hand.

PROPAGANDA. Appeal by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for funds to continue its work on Tristan da Cunha. The film consists of material shot during the visit to the island by The Quest in 1922, previously released in ...

Silent travelogue. Photography by Rev. H. R. Ferger. Intertitle: 'India – That great country of intangible thrill, of the east that is east, f oriental beauty and colour.' Scenes at the Taj Mahal. Various shots of elephants and riders, including a ...

Travancore Game Reserve, Bombay, and Bakers Estate, Komeron, Cochin.

Travancore Game Reserve, Bombay, and Bakers Estate, Komeron, Cochin.

Travancore Game Reserve, Bombay, and Bakers Estate, Komeron, Cochin.

Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan. Durbar. Public Levee of the Governor. Ceremony. Horse riding. Polo match. Horse riding display. River boat trip by skin craft. Boy Scouts ...

Made in New Guinea by a Scottish company, the film combines elements of the jungle adventure with the travelogue.

Unveiling memorial to the 40th Pathans. Parade round the memorial at Mardan on the Grand Trunk Road at Attock. The 40th Pathans fought in the Middle East in World War One.

The enrolment of the Crown Prince into the Royal Army of Spain. Attending the ceremony are Alfonso Xlll, Victoria, his wife, the Crown Prince, Alfonso and Eugenie, Empress of France. A second item shows a religious procession in Malta.

Cinemagazine: includes items on Cuba, ice manufacture in N. America, fiddler crabs in the Mississipi River, the sugar cane industry of Hawaii, Paris views, a musical chimpanzee and a drill display by cadets at a U.S. military academy ( ...

Amateur film showing a hill station above Madras and a tiger hunt. Various shots of the Togas tribe. Scenes of Port Said and Aden.

The horse race.

Europeans walk through the ruins of Martand near Srinagar - a Hindu temple built 700 AD. Tour of the ruins with details of the carvings.

Amateur film made by Viscount Hinchingbrooke on a world cruise 1924/5 from San Francisco to the Far East and India.

In August 1924 Victor Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, aged 17, and his grandmother, the Countess ...

Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of the visit of president Poincare to Jamrud Fort on the Kyhber. Six officers flanking three civilians and the group going off in car. Views inside the fort. Motor and animal traffic on the approach road.

The visit of Lord Irwin, (EFL Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax) and Lady Dorothy Irwin (later Viscountess Halifax) to Jodphur. Sahab Rahabur at Jodphur. The Maharajah of Jodphur and English officials at the train station for reception. The Sarba Risla. ...

Unfinished film of the visit of King Amanullah and Queen Surayya of Afghanistan to Britain, 13th March-3rd April 1928.

The film is partially completed, and shows some signs of proper editing, but scenes may break off ...

DOCUMENTARY. This is the filmic record of the journey made by M. Andre Gide whose diary was published in 1927 as VOYAGE AU CONGO and partly in 1928 as LE RETOUR DU TCHAD.

R.1 En route by sea (90-212); map showing inland journey (222-250); ...

Wadi Halfa - climbing up hill; view of Delta (?); crocodile ; different types of snakes and scorpians handled by Egyptians; ruins at Luxor and street scenes and market.

Palestine in the present day, arranged as to illustrate the New Testament of the Bible.

Scenes of the life of the people of Palestine, contrasting the ancient and the modern.

Amateur footage of mountain battery on mule back - officers and snipers on mountain top - assembling field gun.

Amateur footage by Randolph Bezzant Holmes of Waziristan scouts (soldiers) - sitting at camp; camel caravan in mountainous terrain. Scouts rushing down rocky hillside, smoke from firing, troops taking avoiding action.

Leopold Amery, the Colonial Secretary, and Empire premiers gathered for the Imperial Conference at 10 Downing Street (88ft).

Compilation of amateur footage of family holidays in: Malaga and Alicante (June 1929); Barcelona, Palma and Soller (June 1929); Constantine (June 1929); Tangier, Vigo and home (June 1929); Madeira (1930); Santa Cruz and Las Palmas; Madeira (1932) and ...

Prince of Wales attends the closing ceremony of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (75ft).

The industrial development of West Africa (probably Gold Coast and Nigeria) under British rule.

West Africa before it was developed; forests (28-43); swamps (45-52); deserts (55-60). Men crossing a river by a tree branch (66-78). Two ...

ANIMATION. Stop-frame puppet animation. Snap the Gingerbread Man goes hunting in Africa and is chased by a lion.

"Snap the Gingerbread Man in `WILDEST AFRICA'. Produced by Kinex Studios Hollywood" (3). Snap the ...

Compilation film of events in Palestine, autumn 1917 to spring 1918.

2nd Battalion, the Black Watch, led by its pipe band along a desert road. "The Australian Camel Corps" (actually pack camels ...