RAF troops leaving for Iraq (51ft).

ACTUALITY. A record of a visit to South Africa by a group of American tourists during a world tour on the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's motor vessel "Asturias".

"R.1" Various shots of the "Asturias" entering Table Bay (14-65); ...

The world tour by Edward, Prince of Wales, on board HMS Renown, 1920.

(Reel 1) The Prince, wearing his naval uniform, comes on board HMS Renown at Portsmouth harbour on 14th March, shaking hands with Rear-Admiral Sir ...

NEWSFILM. Mrs Diana Strickland arrives home after her African motor tour (28ft).

Note: Offcuts under title MRS STRICKLAND HOME (75ft).

INTEREST. Section from expedition film, showing the village of Ibandha, and Bakonjo tribal dancing.

No main title. Intertitles (18). Bakonjo people pass the camera (35). Four male Bakonjo pose for the camera (40); group of young ...

CINEMAGAZINE(?) London scenes round Fleet Street; a brief dramatised history of the British policeman; tribal dances.

No title. View across Fleet St with stone arch leading to Middle Temple, the half-timbered Prince Henry's Room half ...

Indian and some British forces on the Mesopotamian Front, 1917-1918.

British "Territorials" in winter clothes march along a road in Mesopotamia, followed by a unit of cyclists. Indian soldiers marching. A 1-pounder ...

"Sir Alan Cobham makes final trials over the River Medway, of the all-metal flying-boat 'Singapore'". Map showing the route to be taken (10- 23). The flying-boat taxi-ing across the water (30). Long shot of men in the flying ...

Travelogue. Scenes of African life. Probably offcuts and clips from different films.

No main title. Street scenes in a North African/Arab town; narrow streets, only pedestrians present, shop fronts onto street, Arab dress and Muslim ...

An annual race meeting at Maseru, Basutoland.

Introduced as the 'annual native race meeting' at Maseru in Basutoland, the film opens with shots of the crowds travelling on the roads to the races. During the journey ...

INTEREST. Shots of wild animals in East Africa. The water buck (15-122); birds flocking to a water hole (132-155); finches (156-166); ravens (177-190); vultures and crows eating (199-262). The secretary bird (274-279); the spur fowl ( ...

INTEREST. Amateur film showing Cape Town, the Table Mountain, Kimberley Mine, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls, and the Zambezi river.

DRAMA. An African setting. Ellen, a young woman, is forced to marry a rich man she dislikes, Krugg, for the sake of her father. The man she loves, Frank Logan, returns from a jungle expedition too late. On her wedding night Ellen is saved from Krugg's ...

African tribal dancing.

Undated film of Allenby in Palestine, and scenes of the RAF flying display at Hendon and the cerremony of Trooping the Colour, both in 1929, shot by a British medical officer serving with the Iraq Levies, 1920s-1939.

"THE AMBASSADOR OF EMPIRE: THE PRINCE OF WALES HAS NOW COMPLETED HIS TOUR OF THE DOMINIONS: HERE WE SHOW HIS GREAT WELCOME HOME AFTER VISITING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND." Driving from the station in an open carriage, the ...

ACTUALITY. The Governor of Bengal, Lord Lytton, inspects the Governor's Bodyguard in Calcutta.

Main title. The Governor and his party get out of a car at the inspection ground, a wide expanse of grass and trees (30). Lord Lytton mounts a horse by ...

DRAMA. Set in Malaya. Professor Gilbert Olives and his wife Marion are in Malaya so that he can develop an antidote for cobra bites. Marion wants to go home but he is too intent on his work. When he discovers that Marion is having an ...

Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn reviews military parade at Rawalpindi. triumphal arch, flags, large parade, groups on horses, large march past of infantry by saluting base.

ACTUALITY. The Earl of Lytton arrives in Calcutta to take up his appointment as Governor of Bengal.

Main title (12) Calcutta Board of Censors Certificate for 31.3.22 (19). Colonial officials wait at the station, the train pulls in. Lytton shakes ...

Amateur film of Kashmir. Ruins at Avantipur - views of the temple and man-sized rice storage jars.

INTEREST: Travelogue. Map (44); views of Baghdad from the river, with crowds crossing Maude Bridge, which is laid across floating boats (108); statue of General Maude (127); views of the river Tigris (150); a 'guffah' or tub ...

Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.

I. A panorama of Baghdad from the Tigris inland, filmed from the Tower of Seria. Indian soldiers (described as British ...