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    AFRICA 1931

    BUTCHER'S TALKIE CHATSGreat Britain

    TRAVELOGUE. 1920s footage of African wildlife with added commentary and Ravel's Bolero.

    Wildlife - zebras, ostriches; ostrich shot by man in solar topee. Visit to grave of Cecil Rhodes. Victoria Falls. African ...

     
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    VITAPHONE VARIETIESUSA

    In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an audience and shows film that he shot in Africa.

    Presented as a lecture, The Professor introduces ...

     
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    ADVENTURES IN AFRICAUSA

    Wildlife safari to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Portugese East Africa (Mozambique).

     
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    PATHE GAZETTEGreat Britain

    Scenes from the lives of people in an African native tribe. A woman gathers up an animal hide and walks through a village accompanied by a child; a man herds cattle nearby. A small bird pecks at the ground amidst the cattle. A ...

     
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    PATHÉ PICTORIALGreat Britain

    INTEREST. Shots of the sea from the side of "S.S. Narkunda" (31). The bridge of the ship (65). The engine room (120). The bridge (142). Life boat drill (198). Shots of the sea from the side of the ship (212).

     
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    FOX MOVIETONE NEWSUSA

    Main title. "Squadron of British planes starts from Cape Town on 4,600 mile return trip over the jungles to Cairo" (17). LS airfield at Cape Town (27); PAN three biplanes taking off (53); MS as they fly over the camera on their way ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. Lumbering in New Zealand and Burma.

    Titles (27). New Zealand lumberjacks felling large tree by axe, sawing trunk into sections, which are hauled away by tractor (52). A large horse team hauls a wagon loaded with a tree ...

     
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    Newsreel item on aircraft of 14 Squadron flying over Mount Kenya, probably 1931.

    The squadron pilots start up their Fairey IIIF aircraft and take off. Three of them, and the camera plane (see note below), overfly the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film shot by Medical Officer of the Boundary Commission. Shows British Colonial Officials travelling to Somaliland via Marseilles, Malta and the Suez Canal and arrival in Berbera. Shows camel racing with the Camel Corps and the ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film. Reindeer; penquins with chicks; King penguins; sea elephants; Prins Olaf Haven; flensing platform; harbour scenes; making a football ground.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film. Leith Harbour; Garonda Peak; whale catcher; working at Dam; factory; oil storage tanks; view over island; reservoir.

     
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    CHOGORIA 1931

    Great Britain

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

    No main title. "The old women find new things hard to understand - Miss Malcolm's meeting for grannies." (0.11). A number of old women ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Shows the achievements, aspirations. racial attitudes of colonial railway builders. Traces the journey from the Cape to Cairo by train, boat, Morris and native bearer.

     
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    Amateur footage of activities in (?) Duars area; tiger shoot.

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    General views of Bahrain seafront and the Arial desert. Imperial Airways airliner landing. Gypsy Moth biplane at airstrip. Pilot and taking off.

    Subjects include British Political Agency staff on the waterfront at Manama; take- ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The work of the Child Emigration Society in helping children from slum areas in Britain move to Australia and learn a new life. Includes slum scenes, the departure and arrival of a group of children, conditions at the Fairbridge Farm in ...

     
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    Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun - the log pond, saw mills and timber testing workshop. The Silvicultural (forestry) Museum and Botanical Herbarium. Seasoning kiln for controlling and hastening the drying of timber. Experiments of fire damage to ...

     
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    Cultivation in Gorakhpur Forest, rearing forest trees along with agricultural crops. Clearing roots. Different stages of crop development. Demonstration forest - measuring bamboos, removing frost covers from nursery seedbeds, measuring trunks in a ' ...

     
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    BRITISH SCREEN NEWSGreat Britain
     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.

    Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. Constantinople, loading of maize. Varna, unloading at the quay. The entrance to the Bosphorus. Quarantine station. ...

     
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    BRITISH SCREEN NEWS

    Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in England for the India Round Table Conference at St James' Palace (second session).

    "The Mahatma arrives to attend India Round Table Conference" (1 frame). Gandhi seated on floor, in loin cloth, works ...

     
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    AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.

    The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta (21). Plane refueling (47). Aerial views and Indians gathered around plane (61). Arrival of plane at Jodhpor, people ...

     
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    Great Britain

    AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey across the Middle East region.

    Aerial views of unidentified towns and countryside along the River Tigris, the town of Kut (91). The River Tigris and Baghdad, street scenes in Baghdad and a hall ...