Uganda: independence parade. Various floats representing aspects of the country. Fruitbats (?). Gardening. Birdlife. Crossing the Nile by ferry. Torrential rain in garden. Car maintenance.
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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.
Crazy World War II comedy, based on Gibraltar's Barbary Apes legend.
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 ...
Survey of the life of the islanders and their reaction to modern life.
Pitcairn Island in 1962 was an exceedingly remote place inhabited by a very small number of people – just 128, according to The Pitcairn People’s ...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 ...
Jinja sailing club? Flora. Owen Falls - water stopped, September 1962
The story of HMS Belfast's 1961-1962 Far East commission.
The World's Fair at Seattle holds no surprises for the men of HMS Belfast - since they were flown out to their ship at Singapore in ...
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. 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 ...
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 ...
RAF film on the aircraft and role of Transport Command.
The film shows how aircraft such as the Bristol Britannia, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, De Havilland Comet and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy were ...
