FOUR FEATHERS 1978
Adventure story about cowardice versus bravery among British soldiers in the 1880s.
Adventure story about cowardice versus bravery among British soldiers in the 1880s.
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, her charge and a callow subaltern. Baker hopes to escape by river to Khartoum but the wreckage of ...
Amateur. A journey from Khartoum, Sudan to Lake Chad.
Traders in market square selling onions etc Ancient ruins in desert - Egyptian (?) carvings on stonework. Local Sudanese working in corn field. Men with camels and donkeys ...
The discussion on the admission of Sudan to the United Nations. Sir Pierson Dixon supports the application as does the United States representative. The Russian president of the Security Council speaks. The vote - Sudan is ...
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of the River Nile, and creating such fertile country as that of the Gezira Cotton Scheme.
The opening sequences give a vivid ...
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 ...
"Opening of Pump Scheme - Governor and District Commissioners" - British officials, Egyptians, band. "Sudan Defence Force - Kaid Inspecting Passing Out Parade" "Gordon Drake Arthur - Born February 7th, 1951" - baby and ceremony with horses ...
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 ...
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
Village life in Sudan.
Aerial shots of the Nile are followed by scenes of a negro tribe and of a native village. The remainder of the film gives glimpses of some of the negro villagers' activities - cattle rearing, fish spearing, in ...
DOCUMENTARY. The Libyan campaign of 1940-41 in which General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
r.1 British military cemetery in Jerusalem (122). The Pyramids from the air (188). Unloading of military supplies at ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BRITISH ADVANCE INTO ABYSSINIA BATTLE DEMOSNTRATION BY OUR ARMY LORD HALIFAX LEAVES FOR U.S.A. SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS MOVE TO BATTLE ZONE MR WILLKIE GREETS US WITH A SMILE ...
For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: DUNKIRK BOATMEN HONOURED A SOUTH AFRICA'S HOME GUARD KING RECEIVES A 'DECORATION' ALL IN A CONVOY DAY'S WORK TRAINED IN CANADA ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: YOUNG ENGLAND PREPARES CONVOYS CARRY ON PROVINCIAL BUSES HELP LONDON QUEEN VISITS HELP CENTRE TRAINING R.A.F. PILOTS DUCHESS OF KENT AT GREEK SERVICE PIGEONS DO THEIR BIT ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AS AIR BLITZ PETERS, BRITAIN AWAITS ISSUE OF INVASION THREAT KING INSPECTS PUBLIC AIR RAID SHELTERS MR MORRISON INSPECTS PUBLIC AIR RAID SHELTERS FIRST RECIPIENTS OF NEW ...
For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY GROWS APACE AIR WAYS AREN'T ALWAYS WAR WAYS BIG BARRAGE YOU NEVER HEAR EDEN VISITS ARMY IN MIDDLE EAST: EGYPT U.S. PILOTS FORM R.A.F. SQUADRON "GRAF ...
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war campaign against the Sudan uprising.
The Four Feathers was the fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason& ...Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the Ceylon (?), Muscat, East Africa, India and Burma, the Seychelles and while serving on HMS Ilex (1937-1939) ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation of film and crude animated maps, the film's principle concern being the importance of communication to ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part of a mimic war dance (53). Shaping spear shafts by whittling down poles, heating them and passing them through a hole in ...
Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Phillips Dixon while serving as hydrographer on HMS Dahlia shows work of locally recruited Sudanese naval auxiliaries, sports at Port Sudan, gunnery practice by HMS Lupin and searching stopped dhow ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.
The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his mother is killed by a lion, who grows up with the Sheikh's son, Nikitu.
A local woman leaves her baby while collecting ...
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo (1933-1938) covers British Imperial Airways Hannibal, construction of dam at Jabal Awliya, White Nile, Sudan ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of the railway builders.
Main title (15). A map of the route (44-57). View from Table Mountain (69-79). Pan of Cape Town ...
9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of the Nile. Esvah barrage/dam. Coming down the Nile from Luxor, views of the banks and boats ...
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in 1929.
Wadi Halfa - climbing up hill; view of Delta (?); crocodile ; different types of snakes and scorpians handled by Egyptians; ruins at Luxor and street scenes and market.
Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; his son and the real Earl are both in love with the same girl, she eventually marries the Earl after the other son is killed in ...
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, Port Sudan, Aden, Fort Jesus, Mombassa and Nairobi. There are also images of Sudanese natives and views of the P&O SS Mooltan. The ...
A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; the Sultan of Fallata; a ceremonial parade of Arab and Nuba chieftains.
Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and general conditions in the Sudan in the latter half of the 1920s. The areas covered are Kadugli, Amadi, Mardi ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.
The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further shots of the tombs and temples (34-62); natives and donkeys and children seated on the ground ...
Main title. The official party walk on to a raised platform decorated with Union flags and take the salute (35). Lord Kitchener conferring honours." Kitchener moves to the bottom of the steps of the platform and the recipients file past ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Sudan.
Main title. The new Nile bridge at Kosti with a steamer passing (13-38); ferry scenes at Omdurman - natives and camels embark and the ferry moves off (43-102); "The consecration of new cathedral - ...
DRAMA. A British general is captured by a Mahdi. His daughter, is also imprisoned but escapes and summons the Scottish Highlanders who come to the rescue.
No main title. General Dent, a British soldier, in his quarters in the Sudan talking to ...
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a swamp. A letter is attached to a stick in the middle of the canoe (14). On the banks of the Nile, the letter is handed over to ...
King George V and Queen Mary en route to the Delhi Durbar. They are greeted at Port Said? and attend a military parade at Sinkat, Sudan.
No main title? "THE KING AND QUEEN DISEMBARK ESCORTED BY LORD KITCHENER THE SIRDAR, SIR REGINALD ...
DRAMA. Military adventure set in the Sudan, concerning the rescue of a younger brother by the elder brother disguised as a Dervish priest.
No main title. Two brothers, Alfred and James Lewis are privates in the 12th Lancers. They take supper ...
INTEREST. Travelogue.
Main title. A native family is seen emerging one after another from a mud hut that has a thatched conical roof (4-35); men and boys attend to their cattle and lead them out to pasture (42-131); a boy milks a cow (158). ...