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). ...
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 ...
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 - ...
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 ...
