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Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.
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INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a local looking at a sign post 'To Kingolwira'. The African sets off in this direction and comes to a ...
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Great Britain
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating "Government Primary School". The boys of the school are roused at 6.30 a.m. by a bugle. The boys get up, wash, sweep ...
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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS 1960
WIND OF CHANGEGreat BritainHow a college education in Dar es-salaam is changing the lifestyle of Victor Kimeseru, a Masai tribesman from Tanganyika.
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BRITISH CALENDARGreat Britain
DOCUMENTARY. Tanganyika on the eve of independence. An interview with Julius Nyerere.
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Buckland Collection
Scenes in the life of a civil engineer and his family in Tanganyika, including bush safaris and camps.
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by L.L.R. Buckland, a civil engineer in the Tanganyika Public Works ...
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CARL PETERS 1941
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INTEREST. Celebrations in Dar Es-Salaam to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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COTTON OF TANGANYIKA 1960
KenyaShows all stages in the planting, growing, work in the ginner and the buying and selling of cotton.
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Cotterell CollectionMade in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and documentary footage of the geography and wildlife of the area, with extensive sequences of a range of levels of gold ...
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Great Britain
A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
The film introduces Kinga's home - huts in a clearing - before showing Kinga and his family, who are at work making bread, collecting wood and ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Sixteen African chiefs, the heads of tribes represented in 11th East African Division fighting in Burma, are received at Government House in Colombo, ...
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Leaving from Swiss (?) airport (Swiss flag flying), followed by views from airplane of coastline. East African local flora: collecting seeds by shaking tree and the seeds 'exploding' off. Sisal production process including farming, separating, drying ...
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INTEREST. Travelogue. A railway journey in Northern Tanzania (?) and waterfalls on the River Pangani.
No main title. Filmed from the front of a moving train; train passes Africans (21). Back view of train as coal is loaded by Africans ...
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FIRST YEAR 1948
Great BritainThe Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.
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FOUR ROADS TO FUN 1955
Central African FederationFour couples describe their holidays:- Kariba/Eastern Highlands, Lake Nyasa, Victoria Falls, Lake Tangyanika.
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TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain
Shows clearing and harvesting scenes at Kongwa linked with developments in ground nuts scheme.
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Golding Collection
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).
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Tanzania
Family life in Tanganyika, including everyday scenes, and the work of white nurses in improving the health and standards of the people.
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Holmes Collection
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The donor Mrs Holmes was born in Arusha, Tanganyika in 1925, and was a Colonial Nursing Sister in Tanga, ...
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Holmes Collection
Film of Sisal production in Tanganyika filmed over a period of 18 months during 1955-56(?)
Production / Donor Details: The donor Mrs Holmes was born in Arusha, Tanganyika in 1925, and was a Colonial Nursing Sister in Tanga, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES 1950
USAIn 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown territory they find the skeleton in the mines, and are rescued from a wild native.
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Knowles Collection
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 ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. Stone, Commander of the British Forces in Egypt ...
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MARANGU 1948
Great BritainLife in the Chaga village of Marangu in Tanganika, near Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The film shows the role of the chief in stimulating economic and social progress and how European and African institutions operate side by side. It then shows ...
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MEN OF AFRICA 1940
GBDevelopment programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does not shirk her responsibilities to her colonies."
An opening sequence of maps and stock shots ...
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MEN OF TWO WORLDS 1946
Great BritainAn African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land. Solo pianist: Eileen Joyce.
Men of Two Worlds was released only in 1946, but had its ...
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Marsh Collection
This film includes footage of building work going on in Kisumu docks, a family Christmas, sailing boats racing on a lake, views taking whilst travelling around the country and film of the Lake Works and survey camp and people working ...
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Great Britain
Native life in Tanganyika and Kenya.
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Great Britain
A FILM PROMOTING THE WORK OF THE RSPCA
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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
Emphasises the need for improvement of social conditions and closer integration of all races in East Africa to enable Africans to cope with social and economic changes which have taken place.
Shots of mountains and plains of ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an airfield ...
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SISAL 1948
Great BritainThe cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; the fibres used in rope-making.
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SISAL 1958
EAST AFRICA'S EXPANDING INDUSTRIESGreat BritainTraces the history of the development of the production of the hard fibre, sisal, and shows growth and processing, and finally the many uses of the fibre. Sisal is one of the greatest industries of East ...
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SISAL 1945
Great BritainOn the cultivation and treatment of sisal in Tanganyika with an emphasis on the importance of the crop for war needs.
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Selkirk Collection
Wildlife in Serengeti National Park. Sign posts in Park. Giraffes Leopards in trees. Vultures. Savanah countryside Visit to Park by British Pair in Land Rover with local guides. Views from small plane over the plains. Observation ...
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Selkirk Collection
Wild life in Lake Manyara National Park. Forest Fire. Village street. Local boys cutting grass with machetes. Mother elephant with calf. Elephant herd behaviour. Wildebeest herd. Ploughing openland by oxen team with European helping. ...
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Silk Collection
Travel diary shot by Mr Silk during his farewell tour of Africa after leaving his job as Agricultural Officer in Ghana. Tour begins in Cairo.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Silk was an Agricultural Officer on the Gold Coast between ...
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TANGA, EAST AFRICA 1955
Great BritainAmateur. Scenes in Tanga on the coast of Tanzania.
View from bungalow looking over to coast - Pemba Island (?) Black servant with a large fish. Views of ships in harbour. Small fishing boats. Telecommunications tower. General views ...
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TANGANYIKA 1954
USALumberman's campaign to find and destroy a renegade white man who is leader of ferocious native tribe which terrorises an area in E. Africa.
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TANGANYIKA VISTA 1951
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Kenya
Showing wild animals in the National Parks of Tanganyika. The Serengeti plain, vegetation, wildlife of the river, giraffes, elephants, hyenas, ostriches. The migration of buffaloes and other herds. Birdlife, tortoises and snakes.
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Great Britain
A POGORO WOMAN AT IFAKARA AND OTHER POTTERS MAKING CLAY POTS, AND A POGORO MAN MAKING A BEER STRAINER BY SPLITTING AND WEAVING PALM LEAVES
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THIS IS TANGANYIKA 1950
Great BritainA look at Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Re-edited in 1961 into TANGANYIKA STORY.
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