National Film Archive catalogue, part II : silent non-fiction films 1895-1934 (1960)
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SUBJECT INDEX
NOTE : The films are numbered consecutively in the catalogue and the references given are to those numbers and NOT the page numbers.
ABBEYS see ARCHITECTURE: ecclesiastical ABBOTSBURY: swan farms 296 ABERDEEN : university quarter-centenary celebrations 291 ABRAHAMS, Harold Maurice (British runner)
620 ACCIDENTS, street 542 ACOUSTICS see PHYSICS AERODYNAMICS: Prandtl's experiments 166 AERONAUTICAL exhibition, Greece 865 AERONAUTICS see AVIATION AFRICA: agriculture: 759, 825, 940; big game hunting 82, 570; bishop's enthronement 576; dances 86, 128, 152, 570, 638, 647, 688, 741, 934, 940; funeral ceremonies 148; marriage customs 152, 647; mining 183, 727, 738, 759 Belgian Congo: 152; circumcision 152;
Elizabethville 727 ;"marriage customs 152, 647 Cape Verde Islands: visit of Prince of Wales
648 Central: 647; Shilluks 73 Central East: Benguela railway 727; settlement
828 East: fauna 570, 760; sisal grass industry 751 ;
Zanzibar 683 French Equatorial 152 Gold Coast: native chiefs 744; railways 183;
Takoradi harbour 183, 744, 759; granite
quarrying 183 Kenya: settlement 828 Nigeria: 741; cotton growing 690, 738, 741;
dyeing processes 690; horse racing 686, 738;
Kano 738, 741 ; prisons 738 North: Tripoli 915, 920 Portuguese West: Koemba Falls 727; Lobito
727; Nova Lisboa 727 Sierra Leone: Freetown 638 Victoria Falls 758
West: 183, 727, 744, 759; French 86 Zambesi: 89 Zanzibar: 683; clove industry 683; visit of
Royal Navy 638 see also ALGERIA, CANARY ISLANDS,
EGYPT, MOROCCO, SOUTH AFRICA,
SUDAN AGA KHAN III, Aza Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah
(Head of Ismaili Mohamedans) 616 AGRICULTURE: Africa 759, 828, 940; Australia 428, 756; Baluchistan 726; Canada 810; Danube areas 177; India 749, 771, 967; U.S.S.R. 812, 1054 cattle: 27, 40, 471, 828, 859, 931, 940 crops: beans 446; celery 446; cocoa 183, 759;
coconuts 76; coffee 120, 388 cotton 690, 735,
738, 1054; grasses 715, 751; ground nuts
738; hops 823, 880; oats 715; olives 6;
onions 752; peas 446; potatoes 431, 446;
rice 759, 1041; rubber 759, 1041; sago 783;
sugar 996, 1041; tobacco 6; wheat 431, 731 farm training 810 fruit cultivation: bananas 944; lemons 740;
oranges 737; pineapples 100; strawberries
681 goats: 412, 503, 538 harvesting: 431, 828 haymaking: 277 pests: 437, 693, 997 pigs: 397, 488 ploughing: 431 seed planting: 446 sheep farming: 428, 471, 828 threshing: 431
virus diseases of plants: 830 viticulture: 487, 603, 921, 937 see also CIVIL ENGINEERING: irrigation, DAIRY FARMING, FORESTRY AILSA Craig 551
AIR Forces: France 131, 134, 136; U.S.A.: medical tests 972
see also ROYAL AIR FORCE, WAR Great 1914-18: air operations
ALASKA: salmon fishing 412
ALBATROSS 455, 534
ALBERT I (King of the Belgians) 457
ALCOCK, Sir John William (British aviator 733, 866
ALEXANDRA (Consort of Edward VII): at Aberdeen University 291 ; coronation 541, 791 ; in Dublin 541 ; opening of Parliament 541, 791 ; shooting at Sandringham 757
ALFONSO XIII (King of Spain) 541, 854
ALFORD, William (British jockey) 612
ALGAE: 530, 714
ALGERIA: 119, 143; Aures mountains 143; Bedouin fakirs 413; Timgad, Roman ruins 119
ALLEN, Sir John James (New Zealand Commissioner-General) 580
ALLIGATORS 385
ALLOW AY: 800
ALVAREZ, E. de (Spanish? tennis player) 831
AMERICA see U.S.A.
AMERY, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett (British stateman) 743, 756
AMMON, Charles George, 1st baron (British politician) 720
AMOEBA 109, 306, 714, 908
AMUSEMENTS see ENTERTAINMENTS
ANATOLIA desert 1034
ANATOMY see MEDICINE: anatomy
ANDERSON, Ladv TMuriel Ivyl 780
ANDRE, Geo (French athlete) 147
ANEMONES, sea 508, 530, 560
ANGLO-Iranian Oil Company 477, 652
ANIMAL physiology see ZOOLOGY: physiology
ANIMALS, trained: alligators 385; bears 402; chimpanzees 684, 824, 1036; kangaroo, boxing 818; lions 379; sea lions 966, 987; walruses 407
see also ENTERTAINMENTS: circuses, DOGS, HORSES, ZOOLOGY
ANNABELLE {Mrs Annabelle Whitford Moore Buchan, American dancer) 954
ANSELL, John (British composer) 646
ANTARCTIC regions 455, 534, 591
ANTEATERS 460
ANTELOPES 570
ANTHONY, John [Jack] Randolph (British jockey) 606
ANTS 357, 501, 687, 760
APICULTURE see BEE-KEEPING
APHIS 437
ARABIA : T. E. Lawrence with Arabs 979
ARCHAEOLOGY: Egyptian monuments 664, 672, 1022; Roman ruins, Salamis 6; Timgad 119; Royal Swedish Archaeological Society's excavations in Cyprus 6; Zimbabwe ruins 756
ARCHIBALD, George William (American jockey) 616, 617
ARCHITECTURE: castles'. Alcazar 844; Bayreuth 171; Beuron 161; Cardiff 590; Conway 482, 692; Dunrobin 712; Harlech 799; Homburg 161; Hurstmonceaux 717; Kenilworth 341; Kyrenia 6; North Berwick 826; St. Hilarion's, Cyprus 6; Scarborough 831a Sigiri fortress 967; Tower of London 22, 596, 649; Warwick 298, 341
commerical buildings: Bank of England & Royal Exchange 376, 593, 632; Imperial Chemical House 728; Old Curiosity Shop, Holborn 315, 582, 632; Selfridge's 597 concert halls: Royal Albert Hall 593, 604 courts of justice: Old Bailey 596; Royal Courts of Justice, London 578
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