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[Miscellaneous Topics: Gardens, Boating, Holidays, Family]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 553 |
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Scenes of family outings, river dredging, ice-skating, boat trips and a fiction film, in which a bird speaks to the audience through intertitles, filmed in the 1930s.

[Family Compilation: African Scenes; Paris Visit; Winter Scenes; Travel Scenes]
Date | [1936-1939?] | ID | 3520 |
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Comprising nine reels of film, this footage begins with a trip by businessman Joseph Horowitz to Johannesburg, South Africa. Travel by ship follows, before scenes of Paris, a canal journey, and portraits of friends in a London street. More footage documents travel through the Alps, a Polish mountain town in winter and Indian street life, before shots of an imposing modern church in a Francophone town.

[South Africa]
Date | August - September 1955 | ID | 1447 |
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H. A. Voss tours Nairobi, Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula, after leaving Uganda, in 1955. He films residential and municipal buildings, built in a number of styles, non-Western and Western. Further footage includes Zulu Rickshaw drivers entertaining Western tourists.
Journey Home Stage One: Lusaka to Durban
Date | [1974; 1965-1968] | ID | 7743 |
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The online clip shows the first part of this three part travelogue series, including the Puttock family returning to England from Lusaka via road and rail.
Dennis on Display
Date | [1967?] | ID | 1624 |
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"Dennis Fire Engines are put through their paces after being handed over to the Johannesburg Fire Department." This film contains images of four new F Type Fire Engines at the depot of the Johannesburg Fire Department where they are inspected before firemen give a hose demonstration. The fire engines are also filmed driving in convoy outside the city.
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