South Africa films by Huntley Film Archives

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1000497 © Huntley Film Archives The tribes of South Africa in the 1960's<br /><br />Zulus North of Durban in natal. Bead work, shields and assegais (spears) Family group outside traditional hut. Corn grinding. Man puts on traditional costume. Dancing. Goat herds. Hair decoration. Mat weaving. Water collection. Men smoking. Bead work. Dancing.<br /><br />Mapoch - Women outside beautifully...

1000497

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1960
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

The tribes of South Africa in the 1960's

Zulus North of Durban in natal. Bead work, shields and assegais (spears) Family group outside traditional hut. Corn grinding. Man puts on traditional costume. Dancing. Goat herds. Hair decoration. Mat weaving. Water collection. Men smoking. Bead work. Dancing.

Mapoch - Women outside beautifully...

1017709 © Huntley Film Archives 1940s documentary about the process that brings tea from the tree to the table. Mainly concerned with the actual picking and production. Good shots of native workers in Assam in India<br /><br />Tea table set with floral teacups and saucers and a silver teapot being poured in a cup, a hand then sets the pot down and hands around cups of tea. Four different shots..

1017709

Category: Industry + Work
Decade: 1950
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - B/W

1940s documentary about the process that brings tea from the tree to the table. Mainly concerned with the actual picking and production. Good shots of native workers in Assam in India

Tea table set with floral teacups and saucers and a silver teapot being poured in a cup, a hand then sets the pot down and hands around cups of tea. Four different shots..

1018137 © Huntley Film Archives Extremely rare footage of Nelson Mandela, prior to his arrest, walks around a township with a white man carrying what may be a bible, they talk to a woman holding a baby 1940's<br /><br />Footage of South Africa as the Second World War is declared. <br /><br />Anti - government demonstration followed by footage of an anti-apartheid march. The Cape Argus newspaper is held...

1018137

Category: Newsreels + Film Magazines
Decade: 1940
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Extremely rare footage of Nelson Mandela, prior to his arrest, walks around a township with a white man carrying what may be a bible, they talk to a woman holding a baby 1940's

Footage of South Africa as the Second World War is declared.

Anti - government demonstration followed by footage of an anti-apartheid march. The Cape Argus newspaper is held...

1045899 © Huntley Film Archives Cruise to South Africa 1950's

1045899

Category: Shipping
Decade:
Sound:
Colour: Film - Colour

Cruise to South Africa 1950's

1061121 © Huntley Film Archives Diesel trains in North Africa and then South Africa 1960s.<br />A Sudan Railways loco is moved out of a rail shed. Another train moves towards the camera slowly. It is in a barren open landscape. Trains in South Africa against a mining background. A passenger train heads towards the camera. Looks like Johannesburg city in the background.

1061121

Category: Railways
Decade: 1960
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Diesel trains in North Africa and then South Africa 1960s.
A Sudan Railways loco is moved out of a rail shed. Another train moves towards the camera slowly. It is in a barren open landscape. Trains in South Africa against a mining background. A passenger train heads towards the camera. Looks like Johannesburg city in the background.

1061242 © Huntley Film Archives Railway trains in South Africa, locomotives and trains on the electrified network, probably near Johannesburg, 1960's. Electric train in a city

1061242

Category: Railways
Decade: 1960
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Railway trains in South Africa, locomotives and trains on the electrified network, probably near Johannesburg, 1960's. Electric train in a city

1061248 © Huntley Film Archives Electric railway locomotive being imported into docks in South Africa. Shots of Johannesburg, circa 1960. Electric train in countryside. Key to single line working. Condensing steam locomotive in desert

1061248

Category: Railways
Decade: 1960
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Electric railway locomotive being imported into docks in South Africa. Shots of Johannesburg, circa 1960. Electric train in countryside. Key to single line working. Condensing steam locomotive in desert

1061603 © Huntley Film Archives Interview with singer P. J. Proby. P J Proby sits in a room in a house, possibly his own living room in the U.S.A. He says he wants to live in South Africa so he can carry a gun. Then on to the racial problem in South Africa: his solution is for the white man to leave Africa and to 'Leave the niggers to the niggers'. 1990's

1061603

Category: Personalities
Decade: 1990
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour

Interview with singer P. J. Proby. P J Proby sits in a room in a house, possibly his own living room in the U.S.A. He says he wants to live in South Africa so he can carry a gun. Then on to the racial problem in South Africa: his solution is for the white man to leave Africa and to 'Leave the niggers to the niggers'. 1990's

1082022 © Huntley Film Archives Indigenous black villagers in their village in Natal, South Africa (area now known as KwaZulu -Natal). Zululand. Zulus. South Africa 1930's<br /><br />The villagers are gathered around some beehive huts or kraals. A white man and woman are visiting. Away from the huts villagers stand by a coach. Panning views of the surrounding rural landscape.<br />Johannesburg....

1082022

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Indigenous black villagers in their village in Natal, South Africa (area now known as KwaZulu -Natal). Zululand. Zulus. South Africa 1930's

The villagers are gathered around some beehive huts or kraals. A white man and woman are visiting. Away from the huts villagers stand by a coach. Panning views of the surrounding rural landscape.
Johannesburg....

1082026 © Huntley Film Archives Zulu prophet Shembe, Natal, South Africa 1930's<br /><br />Zulu lady and child. Zulu woman does the hair of another woman.<br />Group of people dancing with prophet Shembe. Ama-Nazarites. Shembe was the leader of the Church of Nazareth.<br />Various ritual or ceremonial dances with some in traditional Zulu attire, such as men with shields and others dressed in white smocks.

1082026

Category: Dance
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Zulu prophet Shembe, Natal, South Africa 1930's

Zulu lady and child. Zulu woman does the hair of another woman.
Group of people dancing with prophet Shembe. Ama-Nazarites. Shembe was the leader of the Church of Nazareth.
Various ritual or ceremonial dances with some in traditional Zulu attire, such as men with shields and others dressed in white smocks.

1090032 © Huntley Film Archives An aerial view of Nairobi, Kenya, the houses and buildings stretch for miles. Another aerial view of the city, this part with trees and affluent buildings. A modern street in Nairobi, cars zoom along the road, multi-storey buildings line the roadway. A busy sidewalk in Nairobi, men in suits stand and stare at the camera, others walk quickly on with their.

1090032

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1960
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour

An aerial view of Nairobi, Kenya, the houses and buildings stretch for miles. Another aerial view of the city, this part with trees and affluent buildings. A modern street in Nairobi, cars zoom along the road, multi-storey buildings line the roadway. A busy sidewalk in Nairobi, men in suits stand and stare at the camera, others walk quickly on with their.

1090989 © Huntley Film Archives Africans who look after themselves by leaving their families and signing up for work in the Cities. Apartheid. The homes of white Europeans in South Africa. An African man holds a Certificate of Registration. Poor black housing.

1090989

Category: Social History
Decade: 1960
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour

Africans who look after themselves by leaving their families and signing up for work in the Cities. Apartheid. The homes of white Europeans in South Africa. An African man holds a Certificate of Registration. Poor black housing.

1091259 © Huntley Film Archives The role of the light railways in World War One. Film made by John Huntley showing the restoration of the Somme railway, France in the late 1980's with extensive use of black and white archive film of the Great War.<br />Somme narrow gauge railway. There are relics of the old railway and battlefield still surviving seventy years later. View of a narrow gauge...

1091259

Category: War + Military
Decade: 1980
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour + B/W

The role of the light railways in World War One. Film made by John Huntley showing the restoration of the Somme railway, France in the late 1980's with extensive use of black and white archive film of the Great War.
Somme narrow gauge railway. There are relics of the old railway and battlefield still surviving seventy years later. View of a narrow gauge...

1046874 © Huntley Film Archives South Africa<br />gazelle zebra elephant giraffe lion<br />safari park

1046874

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1940
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

South Africa
gazelle zebra elephant giraffe lion
safari park

1092633 © Huntley Film Archives South Africa in late 1960's - smart housing with burglar alarms, outdoor pools and bathrooms. Views of servants quarters where a black female servant lives whilst working for a white family.

1092633

Category: Social History
Decade: 1960
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour + B/W

South Africa in late 1960's - smart housing with burglar alarms, outdoor pools and bathrooms. Views of servants quarters where a black female servant lives whilst working for a white family.

1092890 © Huntley Film Archives Pretoria, Robert Heights, Johnnesburg in south Africa. Over big city of Pretoria and the South African Air Force headquarters at Roberts Heights (Zwartkop) over biplane fighters, possibly Hawker Furies.<br />Johannesburg from the air, then touch down at Rand airport by Amalthea.

1092890

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Pretoria, Robert Heights, Johnnesburg in south Africa. Over big city of Pretoria and the South African Air Force headquarters at Roberts Heights (Zwartkop) over biplane fighters, possibly Hawker Furies.
Johannesburg from the air, then touch down at Rand airport by Amalthea.

1092891 © Huntley Film Archives Kimberley in South Africa. Kimberley next via diamond mines, landing at Victoria West aerodrome where we meet G-ABTH Andromeda and see the only lady aerodrome superintendant, Miss Vera Kempen hop out of an aircraft.

1092891

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Kimberley in South Africa. Kimberley next via diamond mines, landing at Victoria West aerodrome where we meet G-ABTH Andromeda and see the only lady aerodrome superintendant, Miss Vera Kempen hop out of an aircraft.

1092892 © Huntley Film Archives Hotel in Juba. Juba now in the South Sudan, Africa. Grassland referred to by intertitle as the airport of Juba. It has ostriches running on it.

1092892

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Hotel in Juba. Juba now in the South Sudan, Africa. Grassland referred to by intertitle as the airport of Juba. It has ostriches running on it.

1093601 © Huntley Film Archives A film contrasting living conditions of blacks and whites in South Africa. Apartheid.<br />African wildlife - antelope, giraffes, lions, elephant. <br />City shots. A white Rugby game. High rise buildings including the Eagle Star Insurance and National Bank of South Africa. Marching band and troops.<br />Housing in a black area with people making their way to...

1093601

Category: Politics
Decade: 1970
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour + B/W

A film contrasting living conditions of blacks and whites in South Africa. Apartheid.
African wildlife - antelope, giraffes, lions, elephant.
City shots. A white Rugby game. High rise buildings including the Eagle Star Insurance and National Bank of South Africa. Marching band and troops.
Housing in a black area with people making their way to...

1093602 © Huntley Film Archives A film contrasting living conditions of blacks and whites in South Africa. Apartheid.<br />r carrying baskets for white women.<br />A white man plays tennis whilst black workers roll the grass. A black road sweeper. White women shopping. Signs stating white/Europeans only. Blacks sit and play cards whilst white people only sit on park benches....

1093602

Category: Politics
Decade: 1970
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour + B/W

A film contrasting living conditions of blacks and whites in South Africa. Apartheid.
r carrying baskets for white women.
A white man plays tennis whilst black workers roll the grass. A black road sweeper. White women shopping. Signs stating white/Europeans only. Blacks sit and play cards whilst white people only sit on park benches....

1093603 © Huntley Film Archives A film contrasting living conditions of blacks and whites in South Africa. Apartheid.<br />White women shopping. Signs stating white/Europeans only. Blacks sit and play cards whilst white people only sit on park benches. Men's and ladies toilets stating white/European only. A black woman changes her baby on the side of the road. A man holds out a hat...

1093603

Category: Politics
Decade: 1970
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - B/W + Colour

A film contrasting living conditions of blacks and whites in South Africa. Apartheid.
White women shopping. Signs stating white/Europeans only. Blacks sit and play cards whilst white people only sit on park benches. Men's and ladies toilets stating white/European only. A black woman changes her baby on the side of the road. A man holds out a hat...

1093917 © Huntley Film Archives Shots of segregated beaches. Black man selling vegetables at roadside. Black woman with baby strapped to back. Various shots of coastline. - South Africa

1093917

Category: Social History
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour + B/W

Shots of segregated beaches. Black man selling vegetables at roadside. Black woman with baby strapped to back. Various shots of coastline. - South Africa

1094013 © Huntley Film Archives Africa and South America<br />modern world tension with traditional society<br />head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions<br />dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft

1094013

Category: Social History
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

Africa and South America
modern world tension with traditional society
head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions
dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft

1094014 © Huntley Film Archives Africa and South America<br />modern world tension with traditional society<br />head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions<br />dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft<br />Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan<br />Belize monument

1094014

Category: Social History
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

Africa and South America
modern world tension with traditional society
head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions
dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft
Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan
Belize monument

1094015 © Huntley Film Archives Africa and South America<br />modern world tension with traditional society<br />head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions<br />dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft<br />Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan

1094015

Category: Social History
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

Africa and South America
modern world tension with traditional society
head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions
dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft
Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan

1094017 © Huntley Film Archives Africa and South America<br />modern world tension with traditional society<br />head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions<br />dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft<br />Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan<br />Belize monuments<br />Mayan Math Table

1094017

Category: Social History
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

Africa and South America
modern world tension with traditional society
head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions
dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft
Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan
Belize monuments
Mayan Math Table

1094018 © Huntley Film Archives Africa and South America<br />modern world tension with traditional society<br />head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions<br />dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft<br />Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan<br />Belize monuments<br />Mayan Math Table<br />Cortes found a decadent people

1094018

Category: Art + Architecture
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

Africa and South America
modern world tension with traditional society
head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions
dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft
Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan
Belize monuments
Mayan Math Table
Cortes found a decadent people

1094021 © Huntley Film Archives Africa and South America<br />modern world tension with traditional society<br />head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions<br />dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft<br />Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan<br />Belize monuments

1094021

Category: Social History
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

Africa and South America
modern world tension with traditional society
head binding tattoo and length top lip extensions
dancing witch doctor and women in a trance of witchcraft
Mexico Lackendon Chiapas Tribe descended from the Mayan
Belize monuments

1094251 © Huntley Film Archives Steelworks near Johannesburg in South Africa

1094251

Category: Industry + Work
Decade: 1970
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Steelworks near Johannesburg in South Africa

1095177 © Huntley Film Archives South Africa apartheid - signs reading blacks only or whites only in Afrikaans and English. One reads 'Exclusively for Whites - Wine Buffet' and the second 'Whites Only' painted on a door

1095177

Category: Politics
Decade: 1960
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - B/W

South Africa apartheid - signs reading blacks only or whites only in Afrikaans and English. One reads 'Exclusively for Whites - Wine Buffet' and the second 'Whites Only' painted on a door

1095190 © Huntley Film Archives South Africa, possibly Durban. Wide segregated whites-only beach during apartheid era. Woman in slacks and 1950's style 'winged' sunglasses, points. Closer view of people on the crowded beach.

1095190

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - Colour

South Africa, possibly Durban. Wide segregated whites-only beach during apartheid era. Woman in slacks and 1950's style 'winged' sunglasses, points. Closer view of people on the crowded beach.

1095191 © Huntley Film Archives Anti - government demonstration followed by footage of an anti-apartheid march in South Africa. Banner reading 'They Breed Race Hate'.

1095191

Category: Politics
Decade: 1950
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Anti - government demonstration followed by footage of an anti-apartheid march in South Africa. Banner reading 'They Breed Race Hate'.

1095407 © Huntley Film Archives South Africa. Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. A close up of the speech of the Princess made on her twenty-first birthday. She is bare-headed with a string of pearls and looks at the camera and down at her notes. She says; 'I promise to you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service, and to the...

1095407

Category: Royalty
Decade: 1940
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - B/W

South Africa. Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. A close up of the speech of the Princess made on her twenty-first birthday. She is bare-headed with a string of pearls and looks at the camera and down at her notes. She says; 'I promise to you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service, and to the...

1095542 © Huntley Film Archives Kimberley South Africa street scenes. Diamond mine, view into hole in the ground. Mine head, carriages of ore being moved along tracks, mine workers, processing of the ore to reveal the diamonds.

1095542

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Kimberley South Africa street scenes. Diamond mine, view into hole in the ground. Mine head, carriages of ore being moved along tracks, mine workers, processing of the ore to reveal the diamonds.

1095543

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Johannesburg South Africa, view over the city, Caltex petrol station with focus on large logo. Street scenes, traffic and double decker trams. Black gold mine workers coming and going from the mine. Smelting gold. The finished product, a man pulls a trolley loaded with gold bars

1095544 © Huntley Film Archives African tribal dancing, playing wooden instruments and music. South Africa.

1095544

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

African tribal dancing, playing wooden instruments and music. South Africa.

1095545 © Huntley Film Archives Pretoria South Africa, exterior views of Government buildings, luxury homes. Jacaranda tree lined streets in full purple bloom.

1095545

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Pretoria South Africa, exterior views of Government buildings, luxury homes. Jacaranda tree lined streets in full purple bloom.

1095904 © Huntley Film Archives A globe depicting the African continent. Scenes of the rocky coastline of South Africa. A city by the sea, Cape Town, seen from far above. A modern harbour with moored ships. An animated map of Africa showing its coastal trade routes down the west coast and out towards the east, it zooms down to Cape Town. Fields, mountains, deserts, wildlife....

1095904

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

A globe depicting the African continent. Scenes of the rocky coastline of South Africa. A city by the sea, Cape Town, seen from far above. A modern harbour with moored ships. An animated map of Africa showing its coastal trade routes down the west coast and out towards the east, it zooms down to Cape Town. Fields, mountains, deserts, wildlife....

1095908 © Huntley Film Archives Education and Industry in Johannesburg, South Africa<br /><br />Black builders on a construction site, one of the men pushes a wheelbarrow of lumber into the yard. More workers building modern brick houses, one of the men throws bricks up to a fellow builder on the first floor. Long shot of bungalows. A closer view of the single story dwellings. Black stall owners..

1095908

Category: Industry + Work
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

Education and Industry in Johannesburg, South Africa

Black builders on a construction site, one of the men pushes a wheelbarrow of lumber into the yard. More workers building modern brick houses, one of the men throws bricks up to a fellow builder on the first floor. Long shot of bungalows. A closer view of the single story dwellings. Black stall owners..

1095913 © Huntley Film Archives South African Scenes<br /><br />Pretoria city centre park with a circular path, the old Council Chambers can be seen on the other side of the park A man walks up the steps of a tiered garden planted with topiary hedges outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Exterior of part of the Union Buildings. An animated map of South Africa labeling Durban, Pretoria and...

1095913

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - Colour

South African Scenes

Pretoria city centre park with a circular path, the old Council Chambers can be seen on the other side of the park A man walks up the steps of a tiered garden planted with topiary hedges outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Exterior of part of the Union Buildings. An animated map of South Africa labeling Durban, Pretoria and...

1096155 © Huntley Film Archives Procession of mounted soldiers (white) with a crowd lining the streets watching on (almost exclusively white). Medium close up of the troops marching past. The occasion is the opening of parliament in Cape Town, South Africa with marching bandsmen passing underneath the camera . As the procession moves on there are shots of people dispersing....

1096155

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - B/W

Procession of mounted soldiers (white) with a crowd lining the streets watching on (almost exclusively white). Medium close up of the troops marching past. The occasion is the opening of parliament in Cape Town, South Africa with marching bandsmen passing underneath the camera . As the procession moves on there are shots of people dispersing....

1096168 © Huntley Film Archives Cape Town South Africa<br />A young white man on horseback, galloping up the beach with a dog running by their side. Table Mountain in Cape Town is in the background. Men and women are swimming in the surf, some have surfboards. Following a close up of an ocean liner's funnel, we see a liner docked in port. In street scenes we see pedestrians negotiating...

1096168

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - B/W

Cape Town South Africa
A young white man on horseback, galloping up the beach with a dog running by their side. Table Mountain in Cape Town is in the background. Men and women are swimming in the surf, some have surfboards. Following a close up of an ocean liner's funnel, we see a liner docked in port. In street scenes we see pedestrians negotiating...

1096170 © Huntley Film Archives Rural South Africa. A tractor pulling a thresher is driven through a wheat field. Another scene shows a thresher being pulled by a team of mules. Scenes of a tractor ploughing a field are followed by a country agricultural show. Farmers inspect distinctive long horned oxen. Races take place between horse drawn buggies. Various horses and riders line up..

1096170

Category: Farming + Rural Life
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - B/W

Rural South Africa. A tractor pulling a thresher is driven through a wheat field. Another scene shows a thresher being pulled by a team of mules. Scenes of a tractor ploughing a field are followed by a country agricultural show. Farmers inspect distinctive long horned oxen. Races take place between horse drawn buggies. Various horses and riders line up..

1096175 © Huntley Film Archives A montage of clips about South Africa and its people. Woman runs with dog on the beach, Cape Town and views of Table Mountain, crashing surf on the coastal rocks, the arid interior, wheat fields, mountains, an eagles eye view of city tower blocks, port facilities, Malay fishermen, white farmer in his tractor, an African women in tribal dress holding an...

1096175

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1950
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - B/W

A montage of clips about South Africa and its people. Woman runs with dog on the beach, Cape Town and views of Table Mountain, crashing surf on the coastal rocks, the arid interior, wheat fields, mountains, an eagles eye view of city tower blocks, port facilities, Malay fishermen, white farmer in his tractor, an African women in tribal dress holding an...

1096898 © Huntley Film Archives Urbanised Africans and growing up in Africa. Group of black people of all ages standing outside corrugated iron housing. A brick house in a suburb. A husband and wife with their two children sit in chairs outside their house, man is wearing a smart suit, the woman rocks an infant. A woman holds a small swaddled baby. A tubby infant is weighed on scales....

1096898

Category: Social History
Decade: 1930
Sound: Mute
Colour: Film - B/W

Urbanised Africans and growing up in Africa. Group of black people of all ages standing outside corrugated iron housing. A brick house in a suburb. A husband and wife with their two children sit in chairs outside their house, man is wearing a smart suit, the woman rocks an infant. A woman holds a small swaddled baby. A tubby infant is weighed on scales....

1097533 © Huntley Film Archives Crossroads shanty town in Cape Town, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid <br /><br />A shanty town called Crossroads the home of a large black community in South Africa which the government wanted to demolish.<br />A team of people pull a cart across a beach. Aerial views of Cape Town and Crossroads with 1000's of shacks as houses where mainly women and...

1097533

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1970
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour

Crossroads shanty town in Cape Town, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid

A shanty town called Crossroads the home of a large black community in South Africa which the government wanted to demolish.
A team of people pull a cart across a beach. Aerial views of Cape Town and Crossroads with 1000's of shacks as houses where mainly women and...

1097534 © Huntley Film Archives Crossroads shanty town in Cape Town, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid<br /><br />Presenter sitting on a bench talking to camera. Woman working by pools of water between the rows of tin houses.<br />Other Shanty towns from which people go to Crossroads.<br />Michael Richmond a legal representative for the Crossroads Committee.<br />Women in colourful headgear....

1097534

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1970
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour

Crossroads shanty town in Cape Town, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid

Presenter sitting on a bench talking to camera. Woman working by pools of water between the rows of tin houses.
Other Shanty towns from which people go to Crossroads.
Michael Richmond a legal representative for the Crossroads Committee.
Women in colourful headgear....

1097535 © Huntley Film Archives Crossroads shanty town in Cape Town, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid<br /><br />A large group of women in colourful head scarves. Children looking at the camera in the crowd. Women clapping and dancing A woman sitting outside sewing. Close up her sewing. A different view of her working on a sewing machine. She talks to anotehr lady standing nearby.

1097535

Category: Places + Locations
Decade: 1970
Sound: Sound
Colour: Film - Colour

Crossroads shanty town in Cape Town, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid

A large group of women in colourful head scarves. Children looking at the camera in the crowd. Women clapping and dancing A woman sitting outside sewing. Close up her sewing. A different view of her working on a sewing machine. She talks to anotehr lady standing nearby.

1097719 © Huntley Film Archives Rhodesia to South Africa by plane 1930s<br />Fly off in Atalanta to the rest house in Bulawayo, passengers seem to be carrying their own luggage for a change. Aerial view over Rhodes' tomb and across the Limpopo river. A long sequence follows of chasing the aircraft's shadow to Pietersburg (Lughwe) in G-ABTI. Aerial views of the city of Pietersburg in South...

1097719

Category: Aviation
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Rhodesia to South Africa by plane 1930s
Fly off in Atalanta to the rest house in Bulawayo, passengers seem to be carrying their own luggage for a change. Aerial view over Rhodes' tomb and across the Limpopo river. A long sequence follows of chasing the aircraft's shadow to Pietersburg (Lughwe) in G-ABTI. Aerial views of the city of Pietersburg in South...

1097720 © Huntley Film Archives Flight over South Africa 1930s<br />Off goes Atalanta again, hotly pursued by a man on a bike. Departing Johannesburg the plane flies over the Kimberley diamond mines.

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Category: Aviation
Decade: 1930
Sound: Silent
Colour: Film - B/W

Flight over South Africa 1930s
Off goes Atalanta again, hotly pursued by a man on a bike. Departing Johannesburg the plane flies over the Kimberley diamond mines.