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    ACTUALITY. The construction of a railway bridge across a river in South Africa.

    A gang of African labourers, with an overseer, assembling railway lines; bridge in background (31). A section of girder bridge is hauled into position on ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. European-led expedition on camels in African country.

    A line of camels carrying wooden crates pulls to a halt in a sandy clearing. The black African drivers, naked from the waist up, wearing feathered head dresses and carrying ...

     
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    France

    INTERET. Travelogue. A Muslim festival in Delhi.

    Main title (4). HAS of the city (5). Crowded street scenes during the festival (14). A street entertainer watched by the crowds (27). Further street entertainers (49). A procession of people ...

     
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    France

    INSTRUCTIONAL. The manufacture of rope at Howrah.

    Main title (3). Indians unload bales of hemp from a barge on the river (38). Unpacking the hemp and laying it down in thick strands (43-60). Feeding the strands into a machine (64-86). The ...

     
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    INTEREST. Working elephants in India.

    Titles (1). Gap (4). MS three elephants walk along a beach past the camera. In the foreground, three boys squat in a group (? playing a game) (26). MS elephant with two riders walking into deep ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. Indian elephants bathing and working.

    Sea breaking on rocky shoreline (17). Native handlers on Indian elephants emerging from a lake (49). A handler makes his elephant lie down in the water (73). An elephant carrying a piece ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. Scenes in North Borneo.

    Titles (11). Gap. Main title (14). Titles (21). MS house, native people in the foreground, a clock tower in the background (32). MS platoon of sentries fall in and the old watch march away (70). ...

     
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    Great Britain

    ACTUALITY. A lion hunt in East Africa.

    "Native lion hunt" (2). An African on horseback canters towards the camera (9). African hunters walk through the bush, each carrying a spear and shield (35). Various shots of the hunters taking ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A record of the Preston Empire Day celebration of 22 May 1909.

    A title introduces 'Preston Empire Day May 22nd 1909. Promoter of the Empire Day Movement Right Hon. The Earl of Meath K.P., P.C.'. Boys in sailor uniforms and girls in ...

     
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    France

    INTEREST. Fishing with dynamite in the Solomon Islands.

    Main title and intertitle (10). A European throws dynamite into a river, it explodes, 'natives' jump in and retrieve the fish (nitrate damage) (48). The action is repeated and the ' ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Kandy, Colombo and the Kelani river.

    Market scene in Kandy. Merchants display their wares, while people, children and animals jostle each other past stalls (33). A street scene in Colombo; ox-wagons vie with carriages drawn by ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. Scenes from the Far East.

    Crowds of native people at a quayside passing items from hand to hand to load a steamer (54). A freighter (101). [Titles describing a buffalo herd, no picture]. Waves crashing against a rocky ...