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Hello! West Indies

West Indians serving in Britain during World War II talk about their work in the armed forces and in civilian life.

Rl. 1. In a BBC sound studio, Una Marson opens a broadcast to the West Indies and introduces West Indians who talk about their lives in Britain. Pilot Officer Ulric Cross speaks about his work in the RAF. West Indians are seen training to be firing officers, on a shooting range. Radio room, West Indian operators. Aircraftwoman Wendy Ince tells of West Indian women learning Air Traffic Control and working in the WAFs. Balloon hoisting by WAFs. Air sea rescue work, pilot in dinghy being picked up. Petty Officer Al Jennings talks about the Navy. West Indians women in the WRNS. seen driving Navy personnel, running canteens etc. (881).

Rl. 2. Learie Constantine talks about West Indians in civilian jobs; learning engineering at Government training centres, West Indians at work in factories, helping production (18-247). Louise Tatem tells of West Indian women nursing in Britain, trainee health visitors seen in laboratory. Sergeant Ken Pereira and Subaltern Muriel Otway speak on the army and ATS. West Indians in Britain serving with Canadian forces seen operating mobile radio station from a jeep. Sending messages from HQ. ATS women guiding gunners. Women re-treading tyres (762)

Rl. 3. ATS at recreation, canteen, playing table tennis. Learie Constanine tells of West Indians working in British timber industry, seen felling trees. Film ends with party in BBC studio, dancers take floor as Archie Lewis sings (487). (2130ft).

#education #cinema #archive #history by @archivesdie

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3 months ago

Three Roads to Tomorrow

Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an old country, and we come to understand how a modern network of communications - all dependent on oil and petrol - has opened up what was not so long ago inaccessible territory.

Although British Petroleum sponsored a plethora of high quality, internationally popular films in the post-war era, it did not, unlike Shell, use its own production unit. For Three Roads to Tomorrow, the Film Producers Guild – a consortium body which farmed out industrial film commissions – employed Greenpark Productions. Greenpark worked regularly with BP but also produced documentaries on colonial (and other) subjects for other organisations. In 1946, it made Cyprus is an Island for the Ministry of Information, and in 1960 produced Achievement in Africa for the Imperial Tobacco Company, showing the ways in which the company had helped raise the standard of living for Africans in Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Three Roads to Tomorrow was directed by Greepark’s then head, Humphrey Swingler – the brother of Labour MP Stephen Swingler and the poet and communist, Randall Swingler – and at the time a well-known fixture on the sponsored film scene.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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3 months ago

Spotlight on the Colonies

This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and cattle, inclemencies of nature, locust plagues - the film concentrates on scientific progress made to combat these various enemies: farmers being taught new productive methods, anti-locust research stations in Africa, laboratory experiments and training in the prevention of tropical diseases.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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4 months ago

Three Roads to Tomorrow

Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an old country, and we come to understand how a modern network of communications - all dependent on oil and petrol - has opened up what was not so long ago inaccessible territory.

Although British Petroleum sponsored a plethora of high quality, internationally popular films in the post-war era, it did not, unlike Shell, use its own production unit. For Three Roads to Tomorrow, the Film Producers Guild – a consortium body which farmed out industrial film commissions – employed Greenpark Productions. Greenpark worked regularly with BP but also produced documentaries on colonial (and other) subjects for other organisations. In 1946, it made Cyprus is an Island for the Ministry of Information, and in 1960 produced Achievement in Africa for the Imperial Tobacco Company, showing the ways in which the company had helped raise the standard of living for Africans in Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Three Roads to Tomorrow was directed by Greepark’s then head, Humphrey Swingler – the brother of Labour MP Stephen Swingler and the poet and communist, Randall Swingler – and at the time a well-known fixture on the sponsored film scene.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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3 months ago

Spotlight on the Colonies, 1950

This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and cattle, inclemencies of nature, locust plagues - the film concentrates on scientific progress made to combat these various enemies: farmers being taught new productive methods, anti-locust research stations in Africa, laboratory experiments and training in the prevention of tropical diseases.

#education #cinema #history #archives by @archivesdie

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4 months ago

Three Roads to Tomorrow

Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an old country, and we come to understand how a modern network of communications - all dependent on oil and petrol - has opened up what was not so long ago inaccessible territory.

Although British Petroleum sponsored a plethora of high quality, internationally popular films in the post-war era, it did not, unlike Shell, use its own production unit. For Three Roads to Tomorrow, the Film Producers Guild – a consortium body which farmed out industrial film commissions – employed Greenpark Productions. Greenpark worked regularly with BP but also produced documentaries on colonial (and other) subjects for other organisations. In 1946, it made Cyprus is an Island for the Ministry of Information, and in 1960 produced Achievement in Africa for the Imperial Tobacco Company, showing the ways in which the company had helped raise the standard of living for Africans in Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Three Roads to Tomorrow was directed by Greepark’s then head, Humphrey Swingler – the brother of Labour MP Stephen Swingler and the poet and communist, Randall Swingler – and at the time a well-known fixture on the sponsored film scene.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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Spotlight on the Colonies

This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and cattle, inclemencies of nature, locust plagues - the film concentrates on scientific progress made to combat these various enemies: farmers being taught new productive methods, anti-locust research stations in Africa, laboratory experiments and training in the prevention of tropical diseases.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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Three Roads to Tomorrow, 1958

Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an old country, and we come to understand how a modern network of communications - all dependent on oil and petrol - has opened up what was not so long ago inaccessible territory.

Although British Petroleum sponsored a plethora of high quality, internationally popular films in the post-war era, it did not, unlike Shell, use its own production unit. For Three Roads to Tomorrow, the Film Producers Guild – a consortium body which farmed out industrial film commissions – employed Greenpark Productions. Greenpark worked regularly with BP but also produced documentaries on colonial (and other) subjects for other organisations. In 1946, it made Cyprus is an Island for the Ministry of Information, and in 1960 produced Achievement in Africa for the Imperial Tobacco Company, showing the ways in which the company had helped raise the standard of living for Africans in Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Three Roads to Tomorrow was directed by Greepark’s then head, Humphrey Swingler – the brother of Labour MP Stephen Swingler and the poet and communist, Randall Swingler – and at the time a well-known fixture on the sponsored film scene.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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Spotlight on the Colonies

This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and cattle, inclemencies of nature, locust plagues - the film concentrates on scientific progress made to combat these various enemies: farmers being taught new productive methods, anti-locust research stations in Africa, laboratory experiments and training in the prevention of tropical diseases.

#education #cinema #history #archive by @archivesdie

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4 months ago

Described by the voiceover as ‘the true story of Mai Mangwende, the wife of Chief Mangwende of Southern Rhodesia and the African women’s clubs she founded all over the Mangwende reserves’.

#education #cinema #archive #history by @archivesdie

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4 months ago

Spotlight on the Colonies

This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise their standards and increase their wealth. After a summary of past difficulties - diseases that killed people and cattle, inclemencies of nature, locust plagues - the film concentrates on scientific progress made to combat these various enemies: farmers being taught new productive methods, anti-locust research stations in Africa, laboratory experiments and training in the prevention of tropical diseases.

#education #cinema #history #archives by @archivesdie

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Giant in the Sun

Study of Northern Nigeria as it prepares for self-government. The commentator introduces Africa as the ‘continent of the future’ before he outlines, through a map, the different regions of Nigeria.

#education #cinema #history #archive #criticalthinking by @archivesdie

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