People & History
Night life in Lagos 2001, danceband, club scenes, Modern Lagos, TV station, airport, traffic, Hotels, horse racng, beach scenes, yachting, intercut with club scenes, fishing boats, local scenes, fishermen, beach scenes, beach management, pipeline, H.A.S. Lagos, H.A.S. traffic, Lagos, Architecture, traffic, Statue, terminus, statue, Brazilian Quarter, Independence Building, shipping, ships, docks, freight from ships, heavy machinery, produce to ships, airport, planes land and disembark, plane s take-off, trains, street scenes, shoeshine, markets, textiles, shopping, view along shops, traffic, Banks, good market scenes, various produce, cloth sellers, jewels, plastics, cooking implements, schools, classrooms, playtime, children dance, secondary schools, science class, museum, ancient artworks, lectures, school parliament, modern hospital, hospital wards, doctor checks, car manufacturing, welding, biscuit manufacturing, soap making, brewery, beer manufacturing, ferry, jumping from ferry, bus service, old city scenes, new towns, new houses, football match, cricket match, horseracing, European and native types, fashionable types at races, good racing, swimming and diving pools, mosques & call to prayer, praying, christians to church, cathedrals, church-going, Victoria beach resort and people to beach, beach activity, Riviera scenes, whites relax and enjoy, yacht club race, yachts, water-skiing, night scenes, neon signs, traffic at night, nightclubs, nightclub activity, various types dancing, jazz music, bicycles, commuters.
Nigerian dignitaries & officials, Princess leaves after self-government ceremonies, train leaves, Self-government celebrations in West Nigeria, bands, stilt-dancing, Yoruba?, traditional dances.
Parliament building, Beamish & Hughes to present mace, regional federation delegates, Mace ceremony in Western region, UK delegation, delegation, Beamish addresses the House and presents the Mace, Hughes addresses the House and presents the Erskine MayTextbook of Parliament, leader of the House offers motion of thanks, motion seconded, informal cocktail party, celebrations, premier meets Ghana football team, football game, crowds, Governor attends state ball which ended the celebrations, musicians, dancing, Governor and Nigerian leader dances, self-government celebrated in London, Commonwealth delegates arrive, Western Nigerian celebrations.
Salon International Trade Show, fashions, English pubs, Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel market, The Albert Pub near Victoria, The Colonies pub – Good example of Empire theme in London – Nairobi, Arap Moi, chairman opens convention, Lome Convention, Moi addresses convention, Flag lowered in Rhodesia, pan Rhodesia, Mugabe & Prince Charles, New Flag of Zimbabwe raised, celebrations, Prince Charles addresses at Handover ceremony, Nairobi Conference, Borough of Chelsea, Chelsea street scenes, Chelsea types, Swinging London, London fashions, hair styles, photo shoot, Birmingham Evening Mail office activity, newspaper montage, newspaper production, presses, Yugoslavia break-up scenes, UN forces in Bosnia, Helicopter over, map, UN forces in snow,helicopter over, truck convoy, British troops in Bosnia, convoys at night, supplies unloaded, orphans, supplies to Sarajevo Airport, pilot view, burning buildings, refugees, night convoy, Durham cathedral views, suffragettes march, protests, Suffragette museum, Pankhursts, Davidson, Women war workers WW1, Nancy Astor, Thatcher, Lady not for turning, modern women politicians, Beckett interview, HOP scenes, Boothroyd, Commons scenes, Abbott, Macmillan interviewed on African Development,
good old graphic of empire, Hong Kong, Fiji, Malaya, Salaam, good commentary “Africa home to more primitive peoples”, Palestine, Gibralter, West Indies, Caribbean, Colonial office sign, good colonial office scenes, African villages, pan cattle, mandarin talks of Africa, research stations at Wellcome, Trinidad, research, white students of Empire, training administrators, East Africa, pan African countryside, cattle herders, pans, tribes of East Africa, dancing, good night dancing, carrying wood, cattle, African types, disease, pan construction, good comm “initiative of the white man”, hydro-electricity, Mombassa, medicine, maternity, babies, malaria treatment, malaria prevention, swamp reclamation, pan marshes, tsetse fly, pan Tanganyika forest, scientists, research, sleping sickness research, inspections in Uganda, pan hills, malnutrition, milking, agricultural training, planting, livestock, ploughing, markets, Masai, cattle, soil erosion, land reclamation, herders, cattle migration, schools, farm school, Uganda college for Africans, broadcasting, cinema, broadcasting house, Malcolm Macdonald Secretary of State for the colonies gives broadcast, modern Africa, Nairobi railway works, football game, scouts, colonial types and Africans, meeting tribes, tribal trials, Lukika parliament, Big Ben, wireless & cable communications, tickertape, Nairobi, Sir Robert Brooke in Nairobi, agricultural show, pan African types, African reads, commentary “times have changed”.
Pub scene, domestic scene, story about home security, ransacking house, pawn shop, policeman enters, fence in pawnshop, breaking in, keys, breaking-in, chase, in cell, pub scene.
Accession to the throne by the Kabaka of Uganda November 1942, Pan Kampala, Amirembe Cathedral, Bishop recieves Kabala and H.E. the governor, Colonial types, the Kabaka arrives to take oath with governor Sir Charles Dundas, African rifles inspected, archpast, the Kabaka takes the oath of Allegiance, dancing, drummers, musicians, military band, children march past, flags carried, the Kabaka at garden party Lubiro Palace, African & colonial types, wrestling, Budo hill, huts, Saza chiefs assemble to greet the Kabaka, Kabaka & Katakiro & Semanobe, Kabaka to chapel of King’s College Budo, Kabaka proclaimed, Kabaka presented with emblems of duty, justice and enduring authoruty, colonial types, Kabaka invested, Kabaka carried along, celebrations.
Northern Region Development Corporation of Nigeria offices, council meeting on Shendam resettlement, agenda, Northern Nigerian vilages & farms, tribal life, farming on infertile soil, (1962), pan new village settlement, surveyors, building dwellings, new villages, agriculture production, cultivation, drums, groundnut & cotton production, rice production, happy village life, children play, washing, water carrier, wells, grazing lifestock, school bell & primary school, truck past camera, markets, village produce, co-operative farmers, tribal dances, h.a.s. large village, busy roads, shell refinery, industrial scenes, corned beef production, good production scenes, beer and soft drink production, animal skin tanneries, tanning process, groundnut oil & butter production, groundnut oil & flour, dairy, Northern Nigerian textile factory, training school & students, hotel construction, factories, markets, re-settlement.
Northern Region Development sign.
Health & Baby Week – Lagos 1956 – Obe Adele opens baby week, health parade, Governor General Robertson arrives and greeted, colonial types, dancers, floats and people past, walk past, judging winners of parade, Health & Baby week exhibition, mothers & babies, babies, swimming pool, diving, closing ceremony.
THE NORTH REJOICES – Nigerian Northern House of Assembly meeting 1959, self-government bill to be ratified, Sir Gavin Bell arrives, colonial types, Union Flag unfurled, pan Northern Nigeria, towns, river trade, bridges, elegiac dusk, agriculture, villages, village activity, harvesting, tree-cutting in Northern Nigeria, water falls of Abuja, canoes, primitive fishing, tribal artworks, dance, cattle, Lake Chad fishermen, March14/1959 – Commonwealth Status achieved, Sultan of Sokoto, night of self-government, council of ministers, fireworks, celebrations, ministers arrive, Gavin Bell arrives at Lugard Hall, Sultan of Sarduana, Governor declares self-government for Northern Nigeria, Premier in Sokoto, police inspection & march past, cavalry, celebrations, displays, construction, logging, Sultan of Sokoto, muslim prayer, Sultan and others, fast over, procession, Sultan speaks to his people re independence, Federal election posters, voting, ramadan celebrations, procession, Governor, dancing, self-government construction works, preparing for celebrations, dancing, snake dances, hyena , Kaduna and Durbar, Bornu contingent, celebrations.
Fight against Yaws, Oji river settlement Eastern Nigeria, pan Eastern Nigeria, doctors, WHO, local chief, villagers, examine children, innoculations, examinations, yaws sufferers, farming, village building work, Local Health Centre, official opening of health centre, village types, dancing, Ministers meeting on development, meeting in progress, farming land and villages, village types, farming the land, villagers being resettled.
Kenyan Art, hut making, village life, basket-making, pottery, making utensils, firing pots, carry pots on head, Plainsmen of Barotseland Northern Rhodesia, trading, village life, grinding corn, cooking, boatmen, fish traps, trapping fish, nets, fishing, cattle, white farmer, cattle, innoculate cattle, herding cattle across lake, modern village, village life, festivities, dancing, drums, dance for chief, water carnival, warriors on large boat, boat ceremony, boats laden with produce, shore greetings, dignitary, ornamental soldiers, dignitaries from boat, traditional scenes, witchdoctor dancing, Id Ul Haj Baraza in Kenya, mosque, muslims pray, muslim dance, dignitaries, white diplomatic types greet muslim leaders, regimental scene, muslim type and white colonial types confer, salute, flag, European types & Muslim dignitary, handshakes, muslim dance, muslim dignitaries past camera, procession,brightly dressed muslim children, pan along muslim types, children play, stalls and fair, carousels, fairground, Northern Nigeria (sound), New Emir of Ilonen Sulu K Gambari installed, ceremonial dance, celebrations, drumming, foreign dignitaries attend including Sardauna of Sokoto and Alhaji Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, motorcade, installation ceremony performed by Sir Gawain Bell, royal salute, Guard of Honour inspection, procession, Emir’s arrival, Iman administers ancient oath, Emir installed, staff of office given to emir, villagers marchpast, horsemen, tribes represented, wild tribal celebrations, council of chiefs pay homage, motorcade leaves, Royal Occasion, 1953, Southern Rhodesia, pan Salisbury, royal motorcade past, steam train past, Bulawayo, motorcade and cavalry escort, Queen Mother & Princess Margaret, flags, Princess Margaret opens Central African centenary exhibition, pan exhibition gate, the Court of Rhodes, Queen Mother & Princess Margaret, Queen Mother & Margaret inspect traditional craftwork, village visit, traditional tribal dances, pole dance, good dancing, Matabele homeland and cecil rhodes resting place, religious ceremony, visitors at Rhodes resting place, royal train past arrives at Gwelo, Queen Mother greeted at station, onlookers, motorcade away, Queen Mother & Margaret on dias & presented with flowers, arrives at Que Que & greeted at station, cheering crowds, train arrives at Catooma, citizens greet royal visitors, train leave , countryside view from train, good train view past of traditional village, good section, motorcade, Christmas Pass, Queen Mother unveils monument to Kingsley Fairbridge, Garden party, Queen mother presented with doll by children, Leopard Rock, Queen mother at Leopard Rock, pan hills, crossing bridge, Queen mother with townspeople, walkabout, motorcade, Queen mother inspects the Zimbabwe ruins, Morganster Mission visit, Queen mother presented with painting, Royal train arrives in Salisbury, motorcade through township, cheering crowds, hospital visit (Princess Margaret Hospital), meets coloured and Asiatic community, Princess presented with flowers, motorcade and cavalry guard to Ceremonial event for Rhodesian African rifles, Queen mother presents colours, marchpast, visit to site of multiracial university, C.U Queen mother, lays foundation stone, motorcade through cheering crowds at Manquende reserve, Queen mother opens Agricultural show, African Womans’ Club foundation stone lain by Margaret,dancers, attend police display, highland dancing, pipe band, bands marchpast, displays, Salisbury park garden party, presented with flowers, arrive at airport, onto plane and leave South Rhodesia.Princess Margaret 1956 Southern Rift Nyanza Provinces, Margaret arrives and greeted, in garden of lodge with others, Margaret with tribal elders, motorcade, with African types, motorcade, Margaret waves from jeep, Archbishop of Canterbury visits Kenya 1955, Mau Mau war graves, archbishop in procession, ceremony, Rally to the Standard Lagos children see Queen 1956, children’s rally, motorcade, Queen from car and greeted, children wave, Queen waves from car, queen watch rally, dancers, stilt dance, dancing, Northern Nigeria Emir of Kano receives C.M.G. 1955, procession, Emir arrives, inspects guard of honour, receives C.M.G., motorcade away.
Kenya – Family living with animals, tribespeople, medicine man, sweeping, missionary hospital, ward, food prepared, dispensaries, doctors, treating sick, child-care, children, mothers, mission school, cooking classes, washing classes, baby-care, exercises, handicraft classes, carpentery, farming teaching, crops, corn, livestock, football game, African homestead scenes, cultivation, mother & babies, village life, ploughing, washing, cash-crops.
News Pictorial Dar El Salaam Airport, David Owen down steps of plane, Owen Press Conference, Mugabe with Owen, State House Tanzania, Nyerere meets Owen, Kaunda meets Owen at Lusaka, meal & Coffee with Kaunda.
Ivor Richard arrives in Geneva re Rhodesia Conference, Nkomo arrives in Geneva, Tsole arrives, Ian Smith speaks to press, Mugabe interview, Nkomo interview, Bishop Muserewa at conference, Richard interview.
African Sea at Dusk, Sunset in Africa, Malaria victims, light aircraft t/off & lands, malaria victims treated, still Ronald Ross & discovery notes, still mosquito, victims, early DDT funigation, poor villages, mosquitoes, plasmodia, mosquito on skin, townships, mosquito on sleeping child, village life, mosquito, sick child, quinine still, pharmacy, African people scenes, Tanzanian pools, drainage systems, H.A bay, doctor inspects patients, red blood cells, H.A Landscape, people on water, hospital, specimens, pan countryside, village, basic pharmacy, traditional medicine plant,inspect rice fields, African life, fumigating huts, mosquito experiment, dusk countryside, bed nets, heavy rain, African types, trials, nets, experiments, children.
Rhodesia Conference. Carrington greets delegates, Nkomo, Mugabe, Muserewa, court, signing document, Thatcher, ceasefire headline, Lancaster House agreement signed.
Speech re Future Rhodesia, Aircraft, Monitoring group, rebel soldiers, ceasefire assembly place, air-drop, rebels to ceasefire, hand in weapons, city scene, Mugabe rally, Nkomo rally, mass rallies, Mugabe with supporters, election campaigns, rallies, voting posters, laughing children past camera.
Sleeping sickness sufferers, tsetse flies, spraying, Tsetse Research Laboratory in England.
Mandela rally, Mandela released from robben island, ANC meeting, Mandela speech, Winnie, children (better quality)
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, sailing boat, Dar El Salaam scenes, Livingstone memorial, map, coastline, pan countryside, Kilimanjaro, Wachaga tribe, coffee cultivation, board meeting, Masai tribe and cattle, pan masai crater, Serengeti reserve, tourists, rainfall, soil erosion, cultivation, Pangani falls, hydro electricity, pylons, sisal cultivation, diamond mining, road building, Dar El Salaam, markets, industrialisation, trade schools, health services, medical school, education, Governor, elections 1959, Nyerere, polling stations, voting, julius Nyerere wins election, 1961 Self-government, 1961 Independence.
Troops (UN?)European car on road, distraught and injured man as wife is shot (possibly dead – very graphic) distress, injured women from car, troops, chaos, distraught Europeans, town, Europeans on street and at widows, roller skater, dead woman, troops across bridge, UN troops
Aerial & street views Kenyan city, Livingstone Primary school. classroom, various schools, children play football (Black & white, tribal village, slum village, village activity, washing,New Stanley Hotel, Neon lit nightlife, Nightclubs, dancing (mostly whites) Kenya police, captured Kimathi?, Mau Mau prison camps, colonial meeting, Kenyan independence meeting, interview with Jomo Kenyatta, crowds cheer, Jomo, open air rally, Jomo and crowds, Kenya meetings, coalition government agreement, Jomo speech, Kenyatta & Mboya K.A.N.U. poster, plane arrives, Jomo from plane, delegates from plane, cheering crowds, Jomo on jeep, motorcade, Jomo, cheering crowds, troops, colonial types from plane, greetings, Government House, photocall, relaxed scenes, meeting, speech by governor?, wreckage, Kenyan police, hospital, injured, protests, police, troops, British embassy, street scene, KANU, queues, KADU, voting, rallies, Jomo, celebrations, Mboya?, Jomo, supporters, Kenyatta interview re election, Kenyatta sworn in as leader of Kenya and speech, crowds, Kenyatta swears allegiance to queen, Kenyatta jubiliant, cheering crowds, Lancaster House, Kikuyu settlement scheme, pan village, colonial types served by servant, white farmer and black workers, farming scenes, smallholdings, cultivating smallholdings, making huts, milking, farm activity, Kenyatta speech re Kenyan government and racial harmony, Kenyatta, political rally, dancing, Kenyatta speech.
Addis Adaba scenes, airport, Selassie & Nyrere mount dais, board plane.
Accra, OAU posters, OAU road signs,flags, tracking shot, Welcome to Ghana sign & map, airport arrivals: Nasser, Nkrumah, Mochtar Auld Dada, Selassie, Nyerere, Sadat present, Tubman, conference building, Hastings Banda, Selassie & Nasser chat, Sadat, Tubman arrives & Selassie, exterior building, arrivals, meeting in progress, interpreters etc, various leaders at meetings, night display & parade, Selassie leaving Accra.
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.
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