The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of the Copperbelt industry.
The commentator introduces the story over a map, with the title 'Northern Rhodesia 1902'. 'At the ...
'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).
General account of the production of tobacco, with special reference to Southern Rhodesia; includes a study of an actual tobacco estate; with its seasonal activities and life in the native kraal.
Cultivation of tobacco, season by season on a Southern Rhodesian estate,from the preparation of the ground to the curing and grading of the leaves.
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, swinging on branches (260), chimp chasing leopard and other animals (334), attacking people, ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives of the village attending open-air school and learning to read. In his office, the Udi district ...
Illustrates primitive methods of iron smelting by means of account of methods used today by the Bantu peoples.
Celebrations in Zanzibar to mark the 70th birthday of the Sultan Seyyid Khalifa Bin Harub.
Attempts to smuggle rubber out of Japanese occupied Java.
Described by the voiceover as 'the true story of Mai Mangwende, the wife of Chief Mangwende of Southern Rhodesia and the African women's clubs she founded all over the Mangwende reserves'.
Mai Mangwende addresses a group of women in a ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.
A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...
DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
A diamond field is discovered in South Africa. How one man attempts to enforce law and order during the working of it. A British contribution to the Western genre.
4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.
Anthony Eden's Empire tour. The London County Council elections. Food rationing. The Young Conservatives' conference at Filey including a visit to Butlin's. Extract from Churchill's speech at the M.I.T. praising the deterrent powers of the ...
Coffee cultivation around the village of Marangu on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro.
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.
A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...
The work of the Central Hospital, Elat, Cameroun, especially its care for lepers. The case of Moses Mvondo is followed from his father leaving him at the hospital to his cure three years later.
A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.
Scenes around a farm bought in Kenya.
KENYA GLIMPSES. Kenyan farm. Cattle, ox wagon, landscape, watering cattle, farmhouse, washing coffee berries. Sorting coffee. Lucerne (plant used as animal fodder) for cattle. Nairobi. Airport ...
Commander Kearans receives gifts from the Governor.
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...
Describes the 5 races of people in Malaya and their work in the factories and fields.
The beauty of Southern Rhodesia, its expanding agricultural and industrial development and the opportunities it offers for pioneers of today; the history, geography and social life of the inhabitants.
