Sea voyage from Europe to East Africa, via Suez Canal April - May 1958
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior ...
Aspects of African life in Basutoland.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...
Flowers, shrubs and trees of Rhodesia showing their flowering seasons; city scenes and parks; wildlife in the bush.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...
Views of Zanzibar
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, Salisbury, Southern ...
Views of Vumba, Southern Rhodesia; mountain scenery, and the National Park of Southern Rhodesia including the ruins of the old city of Zimbabwe.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. ...
Views of Inyanga Eastern Districts (Southern Rhodesia) and Tanganyika.
Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior ...
Political broadcast. An extract from a routine post National Executive meeting press conference. Morgan Phillips, James Griffiths and Hugh Gaitskell answer questions from the press.
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Visit by Lady Limerick to BRC, , Penang, Malaya 1953.
Shot of Union flag; outside gathering: chairs lined up/women in RC uniforms sitting on chairs. Man (middle aged, glasses, balding) give speech on platform. Lady Limerick with ...
Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.
Travel film on the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika and the famous Kalambo Falls.
The work of the land development officer shown in a dramatised account.
Deals with developments in Qatar, an ancient sheikhdom in the Persian Gulf which is largely desert. Shows how Doha, the capital city is being largely rebuilt.
Some of the hospitals, child-welfare classes, schools, teacher-training colleges, etc., run by the Anglican churches and missions in the five dioceses of Central Africa (including Zanzibar). Also includes footage of a leper settlement; a ...
Tobago, in the Br. West Indies and native occupations and pastimes.
Film showing Sarawak, the youngest colony of the British Commonwealth.
The film indicates that a hundred years ago Sarawak was a land of poor peasants and fishermen and that its first white Rajah (Sir James ...
HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, AGRICULTURE, MINING AND SOIL EROSION PROBLEMS IN SWAZILAND>
Made to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Methodist work in the West Indies and Central America. Shows a midnight service to celebrate the abolition of slavery; the biography of a Methodist Minister; mission activities in Panama and ...
Army Recruiting film in which a man who has served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) writes to a friend who has decided to join, explaining the many benefits and opportunities offered by the RAOC. Basic training at the Corps' Blackdown depot is ...
Amateur film shot by Navy cameraman based on town-class cruiser HMS Birmingham. Includes unedited scenes of life on board HMS Birmingham and naval crew relaxing in various locations including the island of Malta, Inverness in Scotland, the French ...
Survey of present-day Hong Kong with particular emphasis on the appalling slum conditions.
I. Lord and Lady Mountbatten attend a polo match - Lord Louis is the referee. After the match they are seen driving off in an open car.
II. Lord Mountbatten at the end of his tour of duty in Malta (December 1954) bids farewell on the quayside ...
Guides and Brownies greet and march past Lord Rowallan who takes the salute.
Romantic drama set in Hong Kong. Story of the ill-fated love of an American correspondent and a Eurasian doctor.
Good footage of work to help eliminate the tsetse fly problem in Kenya. Var aerial shots of area, ground shots of bush clearance, rivers and wetlands.
Good shots of wildlife.
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Scenes in Malaya 1957
Production / Donor Details: This film was shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this ...
Merdeka in Malaysia
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he was ...
Cameron highlands
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he was ...
Edited film with intertitles showing various schools in Rhodesia: Mission schools, tobacco farm school, 'Governemtn schools in the townships', Goromonzi Senior High. Pupils and students shown enagaging in various activities and ...
Various shots of the beach, house & garden, the family with friends, the air port, water falls, the city, river life, local farming and crop spraying.
Production / Donor Details: Mr. Leeds was an Agricultural Officer in Ghana ...
Various shots of a local Agricultural Show featuring boats & tractors. Shots of new suspension bridge, water falls & picnic, and local bird life & flowers. Some banana and cocoa groves and agricultural trials.
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Arrival at port by road. Views of the docks and dockers, canoeists diving for money and shipping. Various shots of life on board ship from the passengers' perspective and a trip ashore.
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Clearing land for cultivation. Lyons and Cadbury / Fry signs on warehouses.
Preparation and cultivation of cocoa nut trees and a local agricultural show.
Production / Donor Details: Mr. Leeds was an Agricultural Officer in ...
An Agricultural Show at Winneba. Family footage of a visit to waterfalls.
Open day at a trials farm for different varieties of palm.
Production / Donor Details: Mr. Leeds was an Agricultural Officer in Ghana ...
The Afram Plains (Volta Lake) N. Territories & Togoland: journeys across country to Agricultural shows, showing life in various cities, towns and villages on the plains, in the bush and on the coast. Shots include European family life ...
Rhodesia: Vumba. Mountain Lodge Hotel - family scenes.
Most of the footage was filmed for the Methodist Missionary Society in Kenya for the film called 'African Eden'
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Rev. Jan W. Lewis OBE. He went to Kenya in September 1950 to take over from ...
Passenger airliner arrival at Nairobi /Entebe? airport. Colonial domestic family life in garden of country colonial bungalow. and visit by grandparents. Sumbawanga 1956-58
Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major ...
Holiday in Northern Rhodesia with tourist shots. District officer on Safari around Lake Tanganyika. Lake traffic. Boats. Afrian local Ferries. Lake steam freighter. Shoreside villages with life and scenery.
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Andrew's 2nd birthday party at Chapota. Father Christmas arrives to deliver presents. General views of Sumbawanga Village. Life of people in small township. Businesses and townscape.Police station or government post.
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Visit to the Rukwa Valley Game Park (Rukwa Provence) by two couples in Land Rover. Views of wildlife and the topographical nature of the Park.
Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major Harry Lewis-Barned, who served in ...
Scenery at Kalambo Falls. Installation of a Chief in his own village. Supervised Local Council Elections in a village. Manoeuvres and military drill by King's African Rifles out in the Savannah.
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Capetown motor racing circuit.1951; First Foot Safari in Mbeya 1951 IN COLOUR; Crossing the Line Ceremony 1955; Ngoma, Nyasaland; African dancing,,Utete, Tanganyika. Kruger National Park;
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Royal visit in Royal yacht Britannia. Tanganyika in the 1950s. Village life Tribal fairs and gatherings. Construction of Colonial bungalow by District Officer. Difficulties of transport in a marshy area. Panorama of distant ...
Historic and folk sequences from Northern Nigeria.
Production / Donor Details: Donor worked as a Forestry Officer in Nigeria.
The manufacture of soap and edible oils at Kuala Lumpur. The harvesting of the fruit of the coconut and oil palms and the refining, blending, cooking and packing processes for each commodity are shown being carried out by Malay, Indian and ...
Film showing the past and present life of Malacca.
The film tells how Malacca has been conquered several times - by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Malacca as it is now is compared with the past. ...
In Negri Sembilan, one of the nine states of the Malayan Federation, nineteen tribal chieftains renew their allegiance to the reigning Malayan dynasty. The ruler, the Yang di Pertuan Besar, accepts the salutes from the ...
The Gordon Highlanders, on a tour of the Malayan jungle, search huts for bandits, taking a prisoner in the process, finally destroying the huts by the use of phosphorous incendiary grenades.
