Set in Africa just after the Boer war, tells of the journey of four men into the African bush, in search of hidden diamonds.

INTEREST. Two natives of Southern Rhodesia chop down a tree and make a dug-out canoe from a section of the trunk. A finished canoe is then seen on the Zambezi.

A general review of Malaya, which seems to be a double battleground, containing a fight against Communism and a struggle to unite its diverse races into one, po litical economic nation.

Shot in Uganda, this film deals with the activities of Makerere College, which provides higher education for Africans from all over East Africa, as shown through the experiences of a typical female student.

The film opens with shots ...

The control of bilharzia and malaria in Rhodesia.

An industrial process film for Tate and Lyle, showing the growth and processing of sugar cane, from the fields of Jamaica to the factories of London.

Introduced with the animated image of Mr Cube announcing 'Mr Cube Presents', the ...

INTEREST. A film on the Gold Coast [Ghana], including a record of the 1946 Ashanti Durbar at Kumase.

RL.1 The town and port of Accra. 200 miles inland, the town of Kumase, capital of Ashanti. Mixture of African and European ...

"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and ...

A look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.

Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.

'Alabi, a young man, refuses to be vaccinated by the Sanitary Inspector. A few days later he goes to visit ...

The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.

The film begins by offering a historical consideration of the three territories. First, Bechuanaland, which is 'mostly ...

Kenya. The work of District teams in combatting disease and increasing food supplies. Town refuse and animal manure are made into valuable compost (instead of providing breeding grounds for flies). Shows the use of compost in growing ...

A celebration of the granting of a Royal Charter to the City of Nairobi, Kenya.

"The City Council of Nairobi presents Kenya Capital". (27). Credits (78). Sir Richard Woodley, the Charter Mayor, seated at a desk relates the history of Nairobi ...

Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken from rickshaw. "The Colossi of Memnon" "Assouan - Nile steamer to Abu-Simbel" "Wadi-Halfa" "Sudan ...

Advertising film. Shows the life of an African family in the Transvaal.

A Ugandan family re-organizes itself to increase its output of murram (hard gravel) blocks.

The film opens with a shot of blocks and then shows an African man working on their production in a small hole in the ground. With his wife ...

INTEREST. Tsetse fly and attempts to curb its effect in Africa.

Credits (40). General views of African scrubland south of the Sahara - cattle grazing (92). Herdsman with herd (108). Native men and children in ...

Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.

No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the head of the queue is a Nigerian (16). MS of the Nigerian seated and smiling ...

Travel film on the Southern end of Lake Tanganyika and the famous Kalambo Falls.

Seretse Khama is seen arriving in a flying boat at Southampton with his wife and child. He is starting his five year exile from Bechuanaland. It is reported that before leving Africa, Seretse came to an agreement with ...

Amateur footage featuring Noel Coward in Jamaica.

Travelogue of everyday life in Nairobi, Kenya, concluding with the ceremony granting the town the status of a city.

A British voiceover outlines the development of Nairobi - 'today in this once barren land stands Nairobi, capital of ...

No. 68 Photographic Squadron, which has been redrawing the map of Africa, moves all its men and equipment by air to Nairobi.

Botswanan politician, Khama, is allowed to return for five days, from exile, because his wife is expecting a baby.

[Son of the Bamangwato chief Sekoma II (died 1925), Khama studied law in the UK and married an ...

The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.

Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...

Shows clearing and harvesting scenes at Kongwa linked with developments in ground nuts scheme.

(1) Ocean voyage home from Pateau in 1939 in M.V. Accra. with visits to Maderia which show the local scenery and people

(2) Morrison family picnic at the lakeside of Jekko Hydro-electric Dam with rowing boat trip. 1950 ...

Travel Film of Central Africa.

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...

Film of The Kruger National Park in South Africa; Wankie Reserve (now Hwange Park); and The Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia.

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...

Flowers, shrubs and trees of Rhodesia showing their flowering seasons; city scenes and parks; wildlife in the bush.

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, ...

Aspects of African life in Basutoland.

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, ...

Views of Zanzibar

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior music and art teacher at Chisipile, Salisbury, Southern ...

Views of Vumba, Southern Rhodesia; mountain scenery, and the National Park of Southern Rhodesia including the ruins of the old city of Zimbabwe.

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. ...

Views of Inyanga Eastern Districts (Southern Rhodesia) and Tanganyika.

Production / Donor Details: Miss Theresa Cunningham Knowles taught music at St. John's High School, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1954-55 and was senior ...

8 reels. 1. The Tait children with deer.

2. Scenes in Malaya.

3. The Tait boys in the garden in Malaya.

4. Holiday picnic by waterside in Scotland(?).

5. A christening in the U.K.

6. Time in the ...

1. Views of game in Tanganyika.

2. Dambuilding in Nzega and tribal 'turnout', Tanganyika. 1956-1958.

3. Nzega Agricultural Show, Tanganyika.

4. Film of Nzega District Agricultural Show (Wannamwezi Tribe).

5. ...

Documenting the African bee, native traditional bee keepers and the bee-keeping industry in Africa.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains ...

Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots are made, fired and taken to market for sale. A family buys a pot and takes it home for use.

Production / Donor ...

The training and work of the Royal Naval Air Service.

Over shots of a dinghy sailing race among moored warships, the commentary speaks of the importance of airpower in modern naval training. The film then provides a ...

Government information film on East Africa.

A brief historical survey introduces the foreign racial elements - Arab, European and Indian - while characterising the natives as "sometimes delightful, but sometimes ...

Programme intended to prompt discussion on East African affairs.

A map of the area introduces a brief demographic and economic survey - active manpower is the region's main economic asset. The process of change can ...

Amateur film shot by Major William Rhodes James while serving with the 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya during the early period of the Malayan Emergency, from August 1948, aiding the civil power and supporting the ...