1950s
Pigs at test site, Field hospital, camera plat – cameraman Hatch – pigs used to determine H-bomb effects, – Camera Plate – Cameraman Williams 1957 – pigs, troops at bomb test site with masks, cameraman at Camp Desert Rock, troops at test site, explosion, convoy to test site, mushroom cloud in distance, Las Vegas scenes including neon signs, bomb site test dummies, cameramen readied, troops relax, field communications, troops readied, plane over, obsolete military equipment at test site, geiger counter deployed, dummies readied, troops past H-Bomb damage, military vehicle destroyed by blast, helicopter over, camera plat Yucca Flats, troops to and past camera, Cameraman Pendleton and Desert Rock, Decontamination area, ‘Don’t be Dumb Keep Mum’ sign, Silence sign, convoy past, troops at bomb test site and checked for radiation, blast and troops, cameraman at Desert Rock, Decontamination area, troops at dawn or dusk, interview re test bomb blast, confidential aston, pigs prepared fro test and results, APPLE-II destruction, MET plane destruction, SNOWBALL destruction, GRABLE destruction, troops over desert at night, various troops and blast, civilians and blast?.
Title shows US types March, man reads newspaper title ‘Troubled areas threaten peace, August 1949 and Russian Nuclear explosion, newspaper headline ‘Russ have A-Bomb’, newspaper title mash-up, McArthur to Wake Island, animation radiation effect, address to camera re Atomic bomb, address re Hydrogen bomb production and Vox Pops re building the H-Bomb, animation re Russian attack on USA, atomic cocktail drink, biomedical tests using pigs, Jeep convoy past sign saying ‘if you wouldntt tell Stalin don’t tell anyone’, Careless talk sign, briefing prior to troops to bomb test site, address re beauty of Nuclear bomb, bomb test preparation and GIs converse and GI answer to camera, to bomb site and graphic re radiation, troop response to blast, blast and troop talk of reaction, troops toward Bomb mushroom, mid west town, good reactions to test including shadow of plane over farmland, bomber pilot and control room.
Vietnam – 1954 Vietnam divided at 17th Parallel, Ho Chi Minh with children, South Vietnam progress and elections, economic aid by USA, agriculture, dhows, Manila SEASO signed, construction, terrorism, Guerilla warfare, victims, rice fields, Map, peasant activity, construction, rubber production, cloth production, 1959 Gettysburg Eisenhower address re Vietnam, pretty girls, guerilla war.
Construction – Hinkley Point Construction.
Listening to radio WW2
Fortress, H.A.S. Port, pan port to sea, shipping, H.A.S. city, plantation, forest, harvesting fruit, checking fruit, wages paid, planting, wages paid.
Ofala Celebration of H.H. Obi Okuso II of Onitsha – Obi celebrates festival, dancing, good African types, musicians, stilt dancers, traditional dances, instillation of Silas Ezenwa the Obi (1957), procession, celebrations, Obi installed.
Procession,dancers, cavalry, colourful parade, Tribute to Royal visitors, grand cavalry, cavalry charge, motorcade away, Kaduna airport, royal visitors leave, plane away, cavalry across desert.
Animals & people in hut, cooking, African type, hospital, patients, chemist, check-ups, cookery class, baby-care, exercise, sewing, carpentry, livestock, crop management, harvest, store houses, livestock, football, African homestead life, cropping, ploughing.
pan African landscape, oxen, cotton, dyers, markets, laden donkeys, cotton, children, netball, dancing, aerial Northern territory, aircraft lands (Spain), plane view touchdown (Spain), plane lands, Queen down steps and welcomed, red carpet, Queen in Northern Region of Nigeria, royal salute & guard of Honour, fly-past, motorcade away, motorcade route, Queen past, arrive at Government House, Kaduna racecourse, cavalry display, motorcade arrives, flag, display, colourful display, good cavalry charge, Queen addresses crowd, Queen to car & away.
Col/Sound – Kenyan colonial types, missionary, Kenyatta paean song, Mau Mau camps, images of Kenyan struggle for independence, aerial mount kenya, independence struggle, Kenyatta 1st interview, Independence, rallies, Kenyatta scenes and speeches re imperialism and freedom, MASTER OF FACTS rally, African leaders arrive, Selassie attends celebrations, Obote arrives, Nyerere arrives, oath of Office taken by Kenyatta, fireworks, Kenyan flag raised and Union flag lowered, celebrations, flypast, Prince Philip gives power to Jomo, education schemes, city building, cafes, Nairobi scenes, manufacturing progress, printing, smelting, industrialisation, meat production, Harambe development, brewing, food production, telecoms, airlines, docks, Kenyatta funeral, Arap Moi reads eulogy, eulogies, salute, widow, flags.
Title over Ghana Flag, map of Ghana showing territories, street scenes, crowds, VIPs arrive, Nixon and Russian delegation, decorations go up, Duchess of Kent, Nkrumah motorcade, flags, Nkrumah and Governor, BOAC plane taxiing, Duchess of Kent down steps, meets governor and Nkrumah, motorcade away, arrive for ceremony, under large parasol, religious blessing, crowds in stadium, band, Nixon & wife, blessing, dancing & singing, chiefs procession, chief shake hands with duchess, duchess waves, parade, children, fly over, dancing, duchess watching, colourful parade, coastal scenes, boats races, duchess, fly over harbour, horse race, fashionable racegoers, Miss Ghana 1957, beauty parade, floats, state dinner with speech by Governor, Duchess & Nkrumah, Duchess at hospital, War Dead wreath laid, pan down law courts, university, fade to (sound starts) night Duchess unveils statue monument to freedom, Union flag lowered, Midnight March 6 1957 independence arrives, flag raised,fireworks,Duchess at Parliament, Duchess reads queen’s message for Ghana, excited motorcade, rejoicing, Nkrumah motorcade, Nkrumah lauded, State house dance, Duchess & Nkrumah dancing, Nkrumah sees Duchess leave Ghana, dancing, freedom dancing, traditional & modern dancing, independence song, Nkrumah dancing on dais, Nkrumah tearful, Nkrumah shouts Freedom for Ghana and speaks of new Africa and new black man, National Anthem, flag, fireworks.
Montage of Commonwealth scenes inc Hong Kong, Nkrumah,diagram of Africa, Muslims praying in huge numbers, nomads ride camels, sheep herders, mineral quarry work, Aerials Nigeria, nomadic tribesmen gallop at ceremony, modern buildings, 1900 film Hand over from Niger Company to Britain, Nigerian soldiers review, white colonial type with Nigerians, industrial scenes, construction, Nigerian government, very colonial, schools, agricultural colleges, university scenes, physics lab, lepers treated, operation in progress, industry, agriculture, peasant farmers, palm harvests, palm oil process, pyramids of ground nuts at Kano,cocoa, cotton harvest, mill workers, rubber production, women sewing, tin mining, dredging, irrigation, railways, surveying, international airport pov from airplane, Nigerian Airways, people boarding and waving goodbye, Constitutional Conference 1957, regions of Nigeria, New Federal Prime Minister 1957 Tafawa Bewela, independence voting, polls, results, Queen at Parade 1956 ceremony, local councils, Judiciary, hand over.
Eisenhower at church, Eisenhower speaks of armistice, Eisenhower and Dulles at Whitehouse, Eisenhower at Camp David and Nixon and Dulles and Defence secretary Wilson, prisoner exercise, brainwashing exercise, comment on brainwashing,
Junior Dramatic Society, play in progress, children stage play, stamp collectors club, army cadets, sketch club, pottery, textiles, hockey, rugby, tennis, cricket, swimming, diving, sports day & presentations, old and new schools, schoolchildren and courses, report card, teacher – parent interview, clasroom activity, creative children, various school activities, interviews, secondary school, roll call, grammar school, school activities, lessons, practical courses, subjects taught, schools, pan schools, school activity, various courses, school orchestra.
Interviews re Harlow new town, high pan Harlow new town, Harlow scenes, housing, interviews.
Pan rustic scenes, mother & child, girl, boy cycles, young boy runs through dale, children, schoolchildren, young boy to school, slum school headlines, minister speaks to camera re schools, new schools & old schools, children in schools, lessons, 1955, playground games, to camera, children to classroom, lessons, teacher giving lesson, various lessons, teacher at blackboard, teacher reading book, pan children, PE, various lessons, carpentry & art class, school children interviewed, PE, parents interviewed re exams, exams discussed with headmistress, children to class, raise hands etc, taking exam, bunsen burner, teacher interview re grammar school, pupils interviewed, playground, interviews, aerial over playing fields & colege, pupils at college, private school types, refectory, private school types in the 60s, boarding school, dorms, pan down library, studying, grammar school, secondary education, school lesson, bicycles, secondary modern clases, photography, model, erotic shot, glamour model shoot.
Rural bus through town & passengers alight, car through village, delivery van, fish for sale, enter church, rural types, sweeping shop front, village life carpenter, baker, blacksmith, fruit picking, ploughing, farm scenes, hay making, harvest, elegiac village life, basket making, school & lessons, church scenes, traditional family life (nuclear family), at dinner table, village pond, pub scenes, gardening, children play, cricket on the green, children at play, rural bus away from village, Stainless steel documentary, suburban kitchen, traditional housewife in kitchen, stainless steel head office, stainless steel production, domestic appliances, washing car, barrel production line,
milking, Millbank Tower, child CEO, 60s/70s High rise blocks, pan high rise blocks, council block in Lambeth, lifts in tower blocks, crying child in tower block home, life in tower block, irritable children, pan tower block flat, lifts, committee, children play amidst high rises, teenagers, pan up high rise, newspaper headlines, Bovis sign, high rise construction, interview, pull out view high rise,
Regal Cinema opens in Harlow, queues, dignitaries, Dion Hart & Guy Middleton, Poster-Angels One Five, audience in cinema, Finsbury slums, demolishing, skyscrapers in Finsbury, family in flat, activity in flats, Nye Bevan talks on housing, audience listen to Bevan.
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