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    AMATEUR FILM of a husky and sled journey and a medical centre and orphanage in St Anthony set up by Wilfrid T. Grenfell, an English medical missionary.

    LS iceberg, huskies crossing ice to icebound steamship. Ship moves forward a small distance. ...

     
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    Amateur film showing forestry work and resin collecting in the United Provinces, India.

     
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    INTEREST. Amateur film of India.

    People on their way to the market; animals and ox carts (37). Residency grounds and flowers (50). Procession in Jaipur, elephants with decorative howdahs, soldiers, Nagas, elephants in silver embossed china ...

     
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    The tea plantations of Ceylon.

    17th century map of Ceylon. Commentary states that the island has been known to traders for many centuries. Shots of interior forests. Footage of Buddhist temples and statues, many in ruins: 'The dry climate of the ...

     
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    TRAVELOGUE. Views of Colombo harbour; Tamils unloading of boats; Hindus, Buddhists and Moslems working together; bustling town streets; open air market; a train journey through Mount Lavinia's coconut palms; catamaran fishing boats; Dutch built canals; ...

     
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    Amateur footage of rice and rubber cultivation and a religious festival.

    Shots of rice cultivation. A forest fire and its aftermath, possibly clearing land for a rubber plantation. Scenes at a rubber plantation, inlcuding tapping for latex and ...

     
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    OUTLOOK IS BRIGHTER, SAYS MR. RUNCIMAN. President of the Board of Trade, in talk on British Industries Fair, sees good time is coming. (109) EUROPE STRIKES BAD PATCH OF TROUBLE. Snapshots from Continent show, first the standstill in Paris and incidents ...

     
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    AMATEUR FILM. Scenes in and round the medical service building. Huskies pulling sleds across the ice, steam ship in background possibly stuck in ice (25). Men in grounds of medical building walking very unsteadily (50). Inside the centre a man's legs ...

     
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    (Col) Two young teenage girls pose with colourful parrot type birds on their fingers, also look at flowers and garden at the Gun Carriage Factory estate, Jubbulpore 1940. (B/W) Group of young children of various ages in their best clothes at a Children ...

     
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    SECRETS OF INDIA

    Scenes in Udaipur: feeding wild pigs; watering the state elephants; a fight between a wild boar and a tiger. Map of India indicating the position of Udaipur. Every night a keeper calls to and distributes grain to the wild pigs which ...

     
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    Amateur film following the progress of Dr. Taylor's party on their route to Ukhrul as they give medical aid to the sick of the villages through which they pass.

     
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    Villages, homes, and workshops in Sri Lanka.

     
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    FILM TAKEN IN THE ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN, IN ARABIA AND NORTH AFRICA BY THE SALISBURY ROUND THE WORLD EXPEDITION.

     
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    SECRETS OF INDIA
     
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    Amateur film. Shots of wild Markhor and bison; walking tour and expedition.

     
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    AMATEUR. Camp life and hunting scenes in Assam while on local leave.

     
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    A film prepared by the Boy Scouts of Singapore in cooperation with Messrs. Kodak Ltd. Aspects of the city of Singapore, concentrating on the port area, street life and its multi-racial character.

     
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    SABRA 1934

    Theme of the film is taken from the lives of the Chalutzim or Jewish pioneers who have settled in Palestine. Film shows a typical group of pioneers fighting with almost superhuman power against both nature and hostile Arab tribes.

     
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    Documents the deputation tour undertaken by Rev. Leonard Hurst, Australia and New Zealand secretary of the London Missionary Society,in Southern India, on behalf of the LMS.Places featured include Bellary, Gooty, Anantapur District, Jammalamadugu, ...

     
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    00:00 Pan on deck of ship, presumably the SS Duchess of Richmond, a church service (commemorative?) is held. Some of the ships officers are attending and a number of civilian men are wearing medals.

    00:08 Ashore a large party of ...

     
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    Great Britain

    AMATEUR FILM. Ripon Falls (now damned); native fisheries on Lake Victoria (canoes made of long boards sewn together). The Uganda mail train arriving at Jinja. Women washing clothes at the side of the Own Falls. Crossing the Nile by boat. ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A film addressing the geographical conditions, agriculture, and industries within British Guiana.

    A title explains that 'the low marshy coast of British Guiana is alluvium' as cattle stand in the marshy land. The film then shows ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Against the backdrop of the castles of the Gold Coast, the film shows the life of the local inhabitants.

    The commentator outlines a brief history of the 'gleaming castles along the coast of Western Africa', explaining how the Union ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Tamils who work on the estate. Dancing to celebrate the return of Charles Milne after an absence. Children in garlands. Some children on the beach at PORT DIXON. Making cup holders for rubber collection

     
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    Great Britain

    AMATEUR. Scenes at the Presbyterian Church of East Africa missionary centre in Chogoria, Kenya.

    No main title. Hand drawn map of Kenya with Chogoria highlighted (0.08). "Chogoria is 90 miles from the nearest railway. The roads run ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey

     
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    Great Britain

    Advertising. Film showing the manufacture of Cadbury's products - cocoa, chocolate and 'Bournvita'.

    Rl.1 Credits (54). PROLOGUE. The night watchman of Cadbury's Bournville factory carries out his rounds (278). He returns to his ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A compilation of amateur film and newsreel items, including footage from Jamaica.

     
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    USA

    A survey of native life and conditions in Borneo, concluding with some fine shots of canoes shooting the rapids. Monkey sequence contains some South American shots.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of collieries and activities in Kuala Lumpur.

    Scenes of Malayan collieries at Batu Arang north of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor State. Scenes and activities in Kuala Lumpur, including the Armistice parade, 1933; the Malaya ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Travelogue of the air journey from London To Capetown.

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part of a mimic war dance (53). Shaping spear shafts by whittling down poles, heating them and passing them through a hole in ...

     
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    India

    ACTUALITY. A British official opens the Agriculture and Health Exhibition in Bengal, 1933. The opening ceremony and crowds.

    Bengali titles (6). The entrance to the exhibition seen in the background. Two temporary towers with white painted ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INSTRUCTIONAL. The banana industry in Jamaica.

    Credits (30). Views of the hillside and banana plantations (76). Branches are cut down and the bunches of bananas removed from the branches. Natives carry the bunches of bananas on ...

     
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    CAVALCADE 1933

    USA

    About family life against a background of national events from 1899 to the 1930's.

     
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    USA

    Feature film made out of the 12 part serial of the same title.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film showing a procession of elephants in silver-plated armour in Jaipur; women spinning; the road to Amber; scenes of the Craster family at Jotwara including a Sikh orderly; John McLeod Campbell at Galta; sacred monkeys; a fakir; ...

     
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    CEYLON 1933

    Great Britain

    Ceylon's tea industry.

     
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    Great Britain

    'The Port of Accra- capital of the Gold Coast and Headquarters of one of the Fry Buying Agencies.' Viewed from sea-level two rowing boats approaching large ship. 'Port Officials come aboard' similar shot with single boat approaching ship, ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Life on board a liner, the Orford of the Orient Line, on a cruise to the Caribbean.

     
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    OUR GANGUSA
     
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    South Africa

    INTEREST. The ruins of Zimbabwe. Close-up of African native, shot of a native beating a drum as commentary states that many natives have remained as primitive as when the white man first found them (61-103). Extract from the silent ...

     
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    FLAG 1933

    Great Britain

    Documentary on the history of the British flag.

     
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    Great Britain

    Empire Day Pageant at the Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage at Woking. Children dressed in scout and guide uniforms parade with groups representing different countries of the Empire.

    The display begins with a man and woman - ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    Subjects include the visit of the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron, Vice-Admiral Dunbar Nasmith, November 1933; pearl fishing in Bahrain waters; British warships and gunboats in the Persian Gulf; flagstaff at ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    General views of guests at the presentation of Viceroy Khareita to the Sheik of Bahrain. (Presentation not shown). Women in burka dancing. Abd dancing with band. Racehorses exercising in front of local nobility. European dinghies ...