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 ...
An Indian Durbar' (1926) Travelogue style film showing coronation of Sir Hari Singh as Maharajah of Kashmir.
Production / Donor Details: Shot by American travelogue film-maker Herford Tynes Cowling
...The Governor of Bengal's annual inspection of bodyguard: arrival of the Calcutta `Season' with the new Viceroy of India Lord Irwin.
Main title (7). "Inspection of Body-Guards By His Excellency Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal" (9). Victor Lytton, ...
AMATEUR. Buicks being assembled at Allenberry and Co., Calcutta, importers of Buicks and Chevrolets. Shots of crates on ox-carts, Indian workers, ranks of finished cars.
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Fiji.
British Screen Classics logo (10). Pan of shoreline, bay and steep hill (14-36). Three sailing outriggers in a bay; Fijians set sail (41-52). MCU travelling shot over prow and outrigger cutting through sea (58-77). ...
INTEREST: Scenes from around the world of different forms of beasts of burden.
No credits. MCU Mountie comes across a rope bridge on horseback towards the camera followed by a man on foot leading a donkey (7-19). MS rocky mountain path along ...
AMATEUR. Footage of outdoor assembly of cars at Allenberry & Co, Calcutta - importers of buicks and chevrolets.
TRAVEL. A journey from London to Japan on the SS Haruna Mari operated by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line (Japan Mail Steamship Co.); followed by scenes in Japan.
Main title (4). "Great Japan" (10). Liverpool Street Station, passengers board trains ( ...
Set in Samoa, the film records the daily life of the protagonist as a ceremonial feast is prepared.
Fa'angase, a 'maiden,' and Moana's mother gather leaves; Moana collects taro root. Moana and his brothers, Pe'a and Tu'ungaita, set a snare for a ...
ACTUALITY. Garden party given by Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India during the Calcutta `season'.
Main title (10). The garden party guests arriving (mainly Europeans). They cross lawn in front of the house (52). The Viceroy's party passing in front of ...
DRAMA. Two prospectors in New Guinea, both in love with the same girl, are captured by head hunters, one escapes and betrays his friend to win the girl.
rl.1 Peter Mack and his daughter Eleanor live on a plantation in New Guinea. He lends a map ...