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    Visit to Brunei on the north coast of Borneo with its large oilfield. Tourist attractions.

     
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    USA

    Adventures of Trinidad night-club dancer and brother of her murdered husband in tracking down group of enemy spies responsible for the crime.

     
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    Great Britain

    Ronald Haines travelogue emphasising the variety of scenery and human customs in Africa.

     
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    Great Britain

    Story of 6,000 mile journey by road rail and air from Cape Town to Cairo.

     
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    ANTIGUA 1952

    Great Britain

    Antigua, the northernmost island of the Leeward islands in the Caribbean. Description of the old English harbour and the scenery.

     
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    Great Britain

    Record of Baptist Missionary Society tour led by Herbert Janes (later Sir Herbert Janes). Various parts of Southern Africa (including Rhodesia), covering travel, location and landscape shots, shots of rural and urban life and some footage ...

     
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    BLACK LAKE 1952

    Great Britain

    INTEREST. The extraction of asphalt from Pitch Lake in Trinidad, its transportation and export.

     
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    Ghana

    A story of transition within the Gold Coast, as the boy Kumasenu moves from a small fishing village to the modern city of Accra.

    'Lured by the false stories of his cousin Agboh, the boy Kumasenu leaves his village to seek adventure in the ...

     
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    Birch Collection

    Housing and street scenes, estuary harbour life (probably Lagos) also showing some Western shipping but mostly African craft and fishermen.

    Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...

     
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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    Survey on resources of Northern and Southern Rhodesia, natural and human. Scenes in Lusaka and Salisbury. Southern Rhodesian delegation arrives in London for conference on future of the Rhodesia.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Part 1. Sir John and Lady Edelsten arrive at Customs House. Inspection of combined Army and RAF guard of honour. Arrival at Customs House of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Creasy; the C-in-C and Lady Edelsten make their ...

     
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    Great Britain

    ACTUALITY. Procession to the City Hall in Singapopre, the arrival of the Governor and the Duchess, inspection of the guard of honour, speeches and the ceremony.

     
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    Great Britain

    Conservative Party newsreel. Cartoon pointing out that there is no age limit for School Certificate entrants. The Commonwealth Conference. The Duchess of Kent returns from Far East tour. David eccles on incentive. Meeting between Churchill ...

     
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    INTEREST. Singpore.

     
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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    Duchess greeted by Royal Family at London Airport on return from Malaya. Flashback to highlights of tour which included Borneo, Sarawak and Hong Kong.

     
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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    She inspects the RAF Malay regiment, opens a Tuberculosis clinic, receives hon. Freedom if city, visits George VI dockyard, military hospital and Women's Royal Army Corps.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Trials carried out in Malta illustrating the use of a NL Pontoon to bridge a water gap between LST ramp and the shore when loading and unloading a Centurion tank.

    Pontoon approaches HMS ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The importance of the life-giving waters of the Nile to Sudan and Egypt with property depending on the success of the scheme.

    In 1952 General Film Distributors released the Gaumont-British Instructional production, Focus on ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Medical work of the Salvation Army in Africa.

     
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    Arrival at Singapore, freedom of the city, visits to naval and military bases, schools and university; Kuala Lumpur - parade of voluntary workers, Mallaca hospital visit, Kinrara military hospital.

     
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    HMS KENYA 1952

    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    HMS Kenya in Mombasa, November 1942.

    Races in a pulling regatta in Mombasa Harbour (7th to 10th November, 1952). Remembrance Day Parade, 9th November; units taking part include Royal Navy, ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    HMS Kenya arrives in Mombasa, 23rd October, 1952.

    Desmond O'Hagan (Provincial Commissioner for the Coast Province and Chairman of the Emergency Defence Committee) arrives, and departs after ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREAGB

    I. MS as HMS Ocean passes right to left, steaming through the breakwater to leave Grand Harbour - the crew line the side for leaving port and Fireflies and Sea Furies are ranged aft. A Westland Dragonfly hovers over ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREAGB

    MS off the starboard quarter of HMS Ocean in Grand Harbour - crew man the side as the ship departs. Carrier passes the mole where the camera is situated - Sea Furies and Fireflies parked on deck - sea calm - crew give ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A TRAVELOGUE ABOUT JAMAICA WITH EMPHASIS ON KINGSTON.

     
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    AFRICANS IN ACTIONRhodesia

    Shows the various businesses Joe Hlahla an African landowner does.

     
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    USA

    Jungle Jim survives a number of encounters with natives and whites all after riches.

     
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    Great Britain

    A visit to the bush area on the outskirts of Kenya, with glimpses of sisal making and wild game.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREAGB

    Film depicting the working up of HMS Ocean on passage to Korea, and air operations onboard HMS Glory.

    Introductory sequence draws attention to the post-war RN programme for the ...

     
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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    In Negri Sembilan, one of the nine states of the Malayan Federation, nineteen tribal chieftains renew their allegiance to the reigning Malayan dynasty. The ruler, the Yang di Pertuan Besar, accepts the salutes from the ...

     
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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    The General arrives at Kuala Lumpur to take over as High Commissioner of Malaya, and is greeted and shown the secretariat by deputy McGillivray.

     
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    Dramatised advertising film for Lux toilet soap intended for African audiences.

    The film opens with an African man sitting and playing guitar while two African women sit at his feet and sing in turn. The African man is next shown in his car ...

     
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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton visits Mau Mau territory and meets the senior chief of the Kikuyu tribe. Mr Lyttelton is interviewed upon his arrival at London Airport, principally about the Mau Mau.

     
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    Advertising film for Sunlight household soap.

     
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    Nigeria

    THE ELECTIONS TO SET UP REGIONAL LEGISLATURES IN NORTHERN, EASTERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA; AND THE MEETING OF THE NEW LEGISLATURES AT ƒKADUNA>, ƒENUGU> AND ƒIBADAN>

     
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    A shiftless man is befriended by a trader, but betrays him out of desire for a chieftan's daughter by showing a secret channel to a rival Arab. His treachery leads him to be abandoned by everyone.

     
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    Great Britain

    Describes a bauxite mine in British Guiana of the Demerara Bauxite Co.

    Aerial view of Mackenzie, British Guiana. Visit of the Governor to the mine. Exterior and interior of a guest house, club, swimming pool, tennis courts. A ...

     
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    Canada, Great Britain

    Mining bauxite in British Guiana, the Saguenay Hydro-electic scheme and the aluminium smelting plant in Northern Quebec.

    The mining of bauxite in British Guiana, the bauxite being transported to the Demerara river and ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Story of terrifying adventures of rubber planter and his wife in Malaya whose estate is attacked by bandits.

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    TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

    A report on life in Korea and Malaya - featuring jungle patrols searching for terrorists, a day in the life of a rubber planter and civil precautions against terrorists.

     
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    Malaysia

    Scenes of the Royal visit to the respective countries

     
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    Great Britain

    The work and living conditions of the scientists who man the seven bases set up in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.

     
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    Nigeria

    THE VISIT OF BRITAIN‰S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, ƒOLIVER * LYTTELTON>, TO NIGERIA, 24TH MAY-1ST JUNE, 1952

     
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    Nauru

    Composite items from NORTHERN AND RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTS , all concerning Sir Gilbert Rennie

     
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    Zambia

    Compilation of Northern Spotlights no's 1-7.

    Remote Beauty Spots. [Northen Spotlight No 1]. A visit by three South African delegates to Abercorn and the surrounding area, to investigate tourism posibilities. c. 50ft.

    The Sovereign's ...

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    I. Entry of Mediterranean and Home Fleet ships into Grand Harbour, Malta (15th March 1952).

    I. Long distance shot of fleet approaching Malta. HMS Superb (wearing flag of FO Flotillas "Home" ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, one with superstition, one with land conservation and one with education in Nigerian schools. What is being done to ...

     
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    UNILEVER MAGAZINEGreat Britain

    three parts:- Animal Feeding Men of the Mersey Matadi Palm