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    Great Britain

    Prince Philip talks about his world tour of 1956-57. Scenes in Ceylon, Australia, Antarctica and The Gambia.

     
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    Great Britain

    A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.

    A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to make a delivery. Pan across the buildings in a small village. Exterior of the general store, with members of the ...

     
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    Tanganyika

    Promotional film highlighting work done at the Tanganyika Branch.

    Pleaes note: film made 8 years after Tanganyikan RC started - in 1949 - hence film probably made in 1957 - Lady Limerick laying foundation stone (in 1951) - men's ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Prince Philip's visit to Gambia; a crocodile shoot in the jungle; presiding at a gathering of Gambia chiefs.

     
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    BRITISH INSULATED CALLENDER‰S CONSTRUCTION COMPANY BULLETINGreat Britain

    THE SETTING UP OF TWO POWER TRANSMISSION LINES LINKING THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION AT OWEN FALLS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES IN ƒUGANDA>

     
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    FINCHO 1957

    USA

    An African boy and his girl in a small village in Nigeria, and impact of Westernisation due to coming of white man.

     
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    Great Britain

    A study of the crocodiles at Murchison Falls in Uganda, by Armand and Michaela Denis. The Denis's build a camoflage raft and travel upstream towards the Murchison Falls, filming the wildlife that they encounter. They spend time ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and his grandfather. Through the lad's sharpness a drug-smuggling racket is finally brought home to the culprit, ...

     
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    USA

    Story of two men, one white and the other black, raised in friendship all their lives who become enemies during the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya. From a novel of Robert Ruark

     
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    RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

    Training and welfare at Kariba, the K.A.R. leaves Zomba for Lusaka, Chief Rozani invested, Chilonga mission, University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Lady Benson visits new homecraft centre, ...

     
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    RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

    Governor General invests Africans, new wing for Zomba hospital, M.L.C.'s visit Chitedze, Machipisa - progressive store keeper,Governor presents football cup, African sculptor honoured, police ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary on the Caribbean, shot during the making of "Fire Down Below". Tour of Trinidad, sporting activities, carnivals and the Limbo dance performed to the music of a steel band.

     
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    Great Britain

    Scenes of the 1957 Trinidad Carnival, shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner in Trinidad, 1950-60.

     
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    Great Britain

    Tells the story of an industrial enterprise, which showed for the first time how the forest resources of Nigeria and Ghana could be used.

     
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    Great Britain

    Leather traders in Northern Nigeria. Life, crafts, people, capital Kano, and the £2m export trade in hides and skins on N. Nigeria.

     
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    Great Britain

    The Governor of Uganda, Sir Frederick Crawford, visits the Lukiko - the Ugandan Parliament.

     
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    Great Britain

    Adventures of an Irishman in 1890 Africa, who came to join a friend and instead finds his widow, a girl from Marseille, with whom he finally settles down after a series of incidents with both black and white people.

     
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    RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

    Mobile bank, Lake Nyasa fishermen, hospital guest house, police parade at Lusaka, new Salisbury hospital, farmers day at Msingesi, training nurses at mine hospital, sports at Luanshya. RM 2538

     
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    Rhodesia

    The implementation of the Land Husbandry Act, th people involved and the progress it has had on agriculture and the social economy.

     
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    Great Britain

    Mission work in Papua New Guinea.

     
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    Ghana

    A farmer in the Gold Coast (Ghana) learns how to increase his yield of cocoa through the use of insecticides.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur. Buildings, shops and local life on the island of Zanzibar, East Africa.

    View from aircraft landing. Ivory tusks on wagon. Aircraft (East African Airways) on runway. Aerial views from aircraft - clouds and land below. More ...

     
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    RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTCentral African Federation

    Compilation of early Spotlights 1955-58 all focusing on the Kariba Dam Scheme from inception to the record floods of 1958.

     
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    RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

    New Ambulance Service - in Nyasaland. The New Governor-General - Simon Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie. New Postal Agency at Soche.Kafue National Park. Animals for Export - mainly for zoos. Mikolongwe Poultry ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Some of the hospitals, child-welfare classes, schools, teacher-training colleges, etc., run by the Anglican churches and missions in the five dioceses of Central Africa (including Zanzibar). Also includes footage of a leper settlement; a ...

     
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    THIS WEEK [ITV/Rediffusion, 1956-68]Great Britain

    Current affairs programmme. Items: Empire foods; Colour bar; South African troubles; B.O.A.C. flowers.

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary. Tracing the road from French Equatorial Africa to Kenya.

    Fort Lhani(?) French Equatorial Africa to British East Africa by road. The Vanana(?) tribe `beehive' buildings, central granary building, people fishing, a tomb. ...

     
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    RHODESIAN SPOTLIGHTCentral African Federation

    Visit of Queen Mother to Rhodesia 4th - 15th July l957.

     
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    Central African Republic

    Report on the Kariba Dam scheme, and the effects of the record floods.

     
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    Rhodesia

    Stresses the growth in all areas of Rhodesia's natural resources, especially mineral production, increasing white population and consumer consumption (e.g: shoe store), and a great emphasis on the development at Kariba.

     
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    RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

    Rhodesian African Rifles return from Malaya via Beira.

    K.A.R. move to Lusaka.

    Governor General visits African townships.

    Rabies control in Nyasaland with vaccinations.

    Cheap ...

     
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    Malaysia

    The life of Singapore and variety provided by the many different cultures and cu stoms which find expression there.

     
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    RHODESIA AND NYASALAND NEWSCentral African Federation

    Governor opens new bridge, assembly of Mashonaland chiefs, training game guards, new village water supplies in Nyasaland, weight lifting in Bulawayo, Governor General on tour, cycle racing at ...

     
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    Ghana

    DOCUMENTARY: Independence Day celebrations in Ghana, including ceremonies and pageants and the opening of the Ghana Parliament by the Duchess of Kent. The commentary makes a strong plea for racial tolerance, as well as mentioning the possibility ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Sponsored film showing building and civil engineering schemes in southern Africa.

    The film begins in Lusaka, then Rhodesia, and travels through the country and Nyasaland (now Malawi) showing road construction in bush country, bridge ...

     
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    GB

    Short account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Gambia as part of his four-month world tour, 1956-1957.

    Gambia, "one of Britain's oldest connections in Africa, and certainly one of the happiest", prepares to ...

     
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    GB

    A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.

    Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; 1948 Arab-Israeli war and armistice. The advent of Nasser ...

     
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    GB (?)

    Film of the signing of the Anglo-Malayan Mutual Defence Treaty on October 12, 1957.

    The various participants arrive and assemble; the treaty (a defence agreement between Britain and Malaya) is signed. Close-up of ...

     
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    VIEWPOINTGB

    "Welcome to the NATO fleet."

    Robert Mackenzie talks about the NATO meeting (1957?). "The word interdependence is important - it has a new emphasis. It is built of a Soviet initiative. NATO brings together ...

     
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    GB

    Independence Day celebrations in Malaya, 31 August 1957.

    Over shots of government buildings, the British voiceover introduces the film; ‘The eve of Independence, we decorate our towns and await our great moment ...

     
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    Fromings Collection

    Film showing every stage of the production of darkfired tobacco at Kasiya (40 miles from Lilongwe) in Nyasaland, from the issue of seed to the despatch of baled leaf to the Limbe Auction floors.

    Production / Donor Details: ...

     
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    Gladstone Collection

    Eastern Region of Ghana showing large colourful grand festivals with processions of chiefs in Durbar. Asafo military organisation showing their uniform and flags and banners at their Asafo Tufiam or annual festival.

    Moko ...

     
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    Gladstone Collection

    Subjects include crossing the Volta River by cable ferry; Ya Na Abdulai III, King of Dagbon, at Savelugu during independence celebrations, March 1957; Dagomba (Dagbamba) ritual drumming at Savelugu; roof thatchers at work near ...

     
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    Carroll Collection

    Various scenes of the Queen Mother's visit to Nairobi, including a Guard of Honour, her car arriving and the crowds waiting to greet her. It includes some interesting film of a troupe of local men dancing and playing drums as part of ...

     
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    Wilson Collection

    Military action in Malaya in the early and middle 1950s. This shows helicopters of the Royal Navy (S.55s) combining with British and other troops in the jungle campaign against the insurgents in the Malay Emergency. Troops and ...

     
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    Lawrence Collection

    Scenes in Malaya 1957

    Production / Donor Details: This film was shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this ...

     
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    Bryan Collection

    Resettlement of villages in Gwembe (Zambezi) Valley before completion of the Kariba Dam and flooding of the area.

    Production / Donor Details: Mr Bryan was an Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia from 1953 - 1961. ...

     
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    Lewis-Barned Collection

    Holiday in Northern Rhodesia with tourist shots. District officer on Safari around Lake Tanganyika. Lake traffic. Boats. Afrian local Ferries. Lake steam freighter. Shoreside villages with life and scenery.

    Production / ...