82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north east of the village of Tamandu, Arakan, Burma ...

CINEMAGAZINE(?) London scenes round Fleet Street; a brief dramatised history of the British policeman; tribal dances.

No title. View across Fleet St with stone arch leading to Middle Temple, the half-timbered Prince Henry's Room half ...

An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force are seen on manoeuvres in Ceylon, the Gold Coast regiment are shown building a ferry, and the ...

Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the visits made by the delegates during their stay.

Delegates from Africa arrive at Lancaster House. Inside the ...

INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.

RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.

A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...

Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train as nurses, they take examinations, and after 7 years of training she goes to take charge of a four-bed maternity home ...

The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.

Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...

ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the Governor of the Western Region, Sir John Regan.

A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos in 1937.

The film opens with Africans standing outside a corrugated iron hut, with an open sewer running through ...

INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop Lagos. The main problems being reclamation of swamp areas provision of residential areas and slum clearance.

"Rl.1." ...

Nigerian troops on parade; family scenes.

Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Bryan Abbott , who served in the Colonial service in Nigeria after WW2.

The making of Star lager from Nigeria.

The film opens with the Star lager trademark as local music plays. As three African men sit outside drinking Star lager, a close-up of a tray reveals the company logo. The voiceover states that 'These ...

INDUSTRIAL/ETHNOLOGY. Film on the Nigerian cotton industry and how the natives use cotton themselves in the manufacture of clothing.

""BLACK COTTON" Arranged by BRITISH INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS LTD. SURBITON, SURREY." (10). " ...

For detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: The KING WITH THE CANADIANS DESPATCHES FROM TUNISIA FUNERAL OF A V.C. NORTH AFRICAN FRONT ADAMU SOKOTA JOINS UP LORD LOUIS AT SANDHURST

The recruitment, training, and passing out parade at the Southern Police College in Nigeria.

Dancing competitions and various masks. Umu-Chuku, Mbaku & Amanuke. Grandfather Maw, Enu-Ugwu-Abaw; Spirit maidens (Aghogho Mmonwui); District Officer mask (Onyeocha)?; Native Police masks. Nibo. Umu-Chuku Maws. Mgbedike masks.

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1) Native troops (in Northern Nigeria?) parading at small barracks or guardpost; 2) Africans along a road; 3) river with waterfalls; 4) aerial shots of landscape; 5) white men erecting or standing at some kind of aerial; 6) teaparty in garden with ...

1947: 1) Dead person (possibly male), surrounded by family members; 2) Northern Nigerian scenes in modern area; 3) various shots of people relaxing, mostly whites; 1942: 4) Assob Falls(?) swimming scenes; African boys and young men in a kind of Church ...

Central or Northern Nigeria: Jos Plateau; children in village and guinea corn; baby bathed on gourds; pounding maize; giving baby a drink; portraits of women and men with face scars; grinding corn with rocks; demonstrating spade and digging; boy with ...

North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their throats and collecting the blood; 4) a dog being burnt. The background is rocky, hilly scenery; 1945: 5) African woman in a ...

1945: 1) Maize, guinea corn (sorghum) growing; 2) native gathering with dancing; (young men being beaten - Sharo Festival); 3) building a house; 4) African medicine man, dancing on Jos plateau, Nigeria, or eastward; 5) possibly an agricultural ...

North-east Nigeria: 1) African village; 2) girl pounding grain; 3) making scar decorations on a boys back; the operation is watched by a crowd of on-lookers; 4) village: mud huts with thatch; 5) wide scenic shots with scattered farmsteads; 6) building ...

DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.

RL.1 Different races and religions in Nigeria to be integrated - The Moslem Northerners ( ...

ACTUALITY. Local chieftains at an official function in Nigeria.

The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut from the trees and the beans extracted, fermented and dried in the sun. They are then sent to a central depot and dispatched in bulk to ...

An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of the Nigerian paramount Chief the Oni of Ife.

Credit and main title (34). "LONDON ...

Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.

'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, Lagos 19/4/1947, the venue of the AAA meeting. Europeans and ...

Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial Office tea party.

'Nigeria - Agriculture in the School' Young boys ...

Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive way of building houses.

'Nigeria - a Modern Method of Palm Oil Extraction' Two men walk to palm ...

Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and see a fire display.

'Gold Coast government starts Canning Factory' Women cleaning ...

'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads from woodblocks.

'Fiji' A general survey of the islands and industry. AV of ...

Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding'.

A suited black man and woman within London point at a banner that ...

A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the help of the District Officer.

A title introduces the film as 'The Story of how the ...

Record of the operation to separate the Siamese twins from Africa.

Angus Buchanan's expedition to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. Includes Sir Hugh Clifford and the Executive Council of Nigeria; street markets in Lagos; and various tribes in Nigeria and Niger dancing, hunting and cultivating ...

DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.

Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives of the village attending open-air school and learning to read. In his office, the Udi district ...

INTEREST. Journey through the Niger Delta in Nigeria from Onitsha.

No titles. Travelling shot from boat of river bank at Onitsha (47); village, paddle steamer and steamer docked by village (70). "View showing the Golf Course, Offices ...

TRAVELOGUE.

Rl. 1. Aerial shot of Lagos; Ibadhan - University College Hospital; fishing village near Port Harcourt; village funeral rite; village market scenes; chiefs of eastern region at Enugu seen outside parliament building; ...

The Dudley family sail to Nigeria by passenger ship in 1957, and drive by car to their residence up-country. The film includes family activities outdoors; social gatherings of visitors and locals, city, village and countryside scenes ...

The Emir's palace and town street scenes in Zaria, Nigeria

SIR ƒBRYAN * SHARWOOD-SMITH> KNIGHTS THE EMIR OF KANO, ƒALHAJI MUHAMMADU * SANUSI>

Procession involving the Etsu of Nupe; shots of life in the town of Bida, Nigeria

Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages of the 15th Indian Corps' advance through the Arakan peninsula, and parachute supply drops to units in the jungle ...

General impression of the Sahara city of Kano, culminating in the concluding festival of the Moslem Ramadhan.

A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, you can prevent the spread of the disease.

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