A ruined planter makes good in Australia and returns in time to save his fiancée from a nunnery.
Scenes of shipping on the Suez Canal and Red Sea. A camel caravan walking along the shoreline.
RAF troops leaving for Iraq (51ft).
The Empire Premiers inspect the airship R.33 and its mooring post (96ft).
The control of hookworm disease in Kenya.
INTEREST. Travelogue. A journey through Egypt on a Nile steamboat. The boat passes all types of rivercraft (120), stretches of dense vegetation (160), birds (181), a water-buffalo (196) and a typical water-side village (257). The boat ...
DOCUMENTARY. Sections of footage showing African wildlife and penguins.
MCU pile of film cans, the top can is marked with Cherry Kearton's signature, a reel of film is taken from this can (14). Main title (16). Gap (16). MCU herd ...
Leopold Amery, the Colonial Secretary, and Empire premiers gathered for the Imperial Conference at 10 Downing Street (88ft).
Three brothers shoulder the blame for a theft, and join the Foreign Legion.
The Empire Premiers opn HMS 'Revenge' witness a mock battle and naval display at sea. (Mackenzie King and William Cosgrave did not attend) (149ft).
Note. There is a large amount of off-cut material for this item. ...
Amateur film of the various stages in the digging of ditches to drain subsoil to assist in malaria control
Schoolschildren celebrating Empire Day (50ft).
Story of Prince Gautama and how he became Lord Buddha, the Enlightened One.
Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British District Officer and a tin miner leads to war.
The film introduces the main protagonists. Yilkuba, the witch ...
Empire premiers at Cambridge University, including Mackenzie King of Canada, and the Maharajah of Burdan (44ft).
A record of Sir Alan Cobham's flight from London (Stag Lane) to the Cape Town South Africa. The flight - the Imperial Airway Survey Flight - was made for the purpose of investigating the possibilities of aviation in Africa.
Main ...
DOCUMENTARY. This is the filmic record of the journey made by M. Andre Gide whose diary was published in 1927 as VOYAGE AU CONGO and partly in 1928 as LE RETOUR DU TCHAD.
R.1 En route by sea (90-212); map showing inland journey (222-250); ...
DRAMA. A love story of two generations.
R.1 Dr. Martin Sumner, a Victorian country doctor and early motor enthusiast, meets Dora Romney. He invites her and her mother to accompany him the London- Brighton run; the car runs into ...
Cartoon adventure, in which Felix plays golf. He's shot overseas on a jet of water and ends up in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to devour him.
The coconut palm kernel industry of the Solomon Islands; the lives of the Solomon Islanders and their recruitment to work for Lever Brothers. Re-edited from A ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY.
Main title and credit (41). Explanatory titles outlining ...
Army camp with British army officers waiting for 'The Off.' Armoured Car exercises & inspection. Meeting of two tribal clanleaders at Clan gathering with pipe band.
Trek into the outback by party with Memsahibs on horseback ...
Record (with intertitles) for regimental historical purposes of the blessing, presentation and trooping of the Silver Drums by the 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel F S Montague ...
Amateur film presumably shot by a British Army officer in the Royal Artillery serving at Quetta records full-track carrier and Morris Commercial truck towing guns on difficult sandy terrain and various off-duty scenes with British Army wives boating ...