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‘Complete Victory in Africa’, Colonial Cinema, October 1943, 4.
... Colonial Cinema, December 1943, 3.‘Africa’s Fighting Men (Sound)’, Colonial Cinema, ...
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... of Axis losses in the battle of North Africa. These newsreel pictures, the first ... offensive on India's Easter Front, India's fighting men will once again prove ... ).
‘Indians’ Fine Work in Africa’, The Times, 19 April ...
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... Reeves discussed Our Empire’s Fight for Freedom in his study ... went to ‘comforts for our fighting men’ (Grey River Argus ... a ‘stirring successful appeal to South Africa’. Each country is introduced by familiar ...
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MEN OF AFRICA 1940
... of pride that the principles for which we are fighting this war are so amply illustrated in what was once ... ;darkest” Africa’ (DNL, June 1940, 8).Men of Africa played in a number of theatres throughout 1940. In ...
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... , yet initially East Africa had provided the majority of men for the ... an ‘instinct’ for jungle fighting and claimed that ‘primitive ... Michael Crowder eds., History of West Africa: Volume 2 (London: Longman, 1974).Crowder ...
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... and Men' includes four chapters on his war-time experiences in Africa as an officer ... were never met in Europe. We were fighting “open warfare” with ... ). Kearton’s footage from East Africa was advertised in Bioscope in January ... -
... contribution to the war effort, especially in the fighting in Eritrea. A South African gun crew ... resources were destined for East Africa, the Western Desert and Italy. ... this output is matched by ‘thousands of fighting men’, at which point the ... -
WAR CAME TO KENYA 1941
... involvement in and commitment to the war in fighting or contributing funds were given much ... also felt the cost of taking men away from areas of production.The ... was re-titled ‘War Comes to Africa’ for distribution in England, which ...
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES 1950
... insistently gave young British men a sense of place and a desire to go to Africa, to seek their ... of the King’s Mines! Battle canoes of the Fighting Masai! Actual death fight of the Pagan Kings! The Spectacular Animal Stampede!’. One notes the ... -
AFRICAN QUEEN 1951
... of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, ... this Africa has already become a military base populated by dangerous black men ... film, he is proud to have learned courage to fight Germans on behalf of Britain, but he has ... -
... but Allison - aware of Fernandez's past - refuses. The two men fight and Fernandez with his hopes and plans ... 5 August 1926, 19.
‘The Joys of Filming in West Africa’, Bioscope, 5 August 1926, 22.
‘The Joys of ...
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES 1937
... for legendary diamond mines in the heart of Africa.The 1937 British-Gaumont ... interests in the continent as significant enough to fight for, not only during the ... where it was taking place: ‘Africa – 1897’ was the ...
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