Tymms Collection on civil aviation Film 20
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A 16mm colour film (9min 09sec). 'Tanganyika Territory' Tabora Region. Tanzania. Notes on the film can read: 'Uvinza to Mpanda Goldfield. Nov. 1939. Musoma to Kagera. Jan. 1939. Musoma. Jan. 1940'.
Workshop / factory indoor scenes. Men showing a large dead crocodile. Riverbank scenes of rope pulled ferry and women doing laundry. Men working the riverbed of several narrow water channels (races). Panners at work; fully laden ore waggons. Landscape near the gold mining plant (battery). People bathing in the river; several portraits of women and men wearing traditional jewellery. Extended market scenes. Panoramic landscape views; man carrying several wicker cages on a pole; river scenes. General views of a gold mining battery, possibly at Mpanda. Scenes at the Tabora rail station. Workers travelling in a small truck. Men sluicing for gold. Landscape and views of gold mining camp. For a detailed shot list see the Royal Commonwealth Society Collections cataloguing notes at http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FRCMS%2020%2F3%2F20 Related collections: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Tymms collection on civil aviation, RCMS 20. |
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| Created: | 2013-09-13 11:39 |
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| Collection: | Royal Commonwealth Society Film Collection |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Copyright Cambridge University Library |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | gold mining; Tanzania; Mpanda goldifield; Tabora Region; |
| Abstract: | Gold mining, Tanzania. 1939-1940 |
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A 16mm colour film (9min 09sec). 'Tanganyika Territory' Tabora Region. Tanzania. Notes on the film can read: 'Uvinza to Mpanda Goldfield. Nov. 1939. Musoma to Kagera. Jan. 1939. Musoma. Jan. 1940'.
Workshop / factory indoor scenes. Men showing a large dead crocodile. Riverbank scenes of rope pulled ferry and women doing laundry. Men working the riverbed of several narrow water channels (races). Panners at work; fully laden ore waggons. Landscape near the gold mining plant (battery). People bathing in the river; several portraits of women and men wearing traditional jewellery. Extended market scenes. Panoramic landscape views; man carrying several wicker cages on a pole; river scenes. General views of a gold mining battery, possibly at Mpanda. Scenes at the Tabora rail station. Workers travelling in a small truck. Men sluicing for gold. Landscape and views of gold mining camp.
For a detailed shot list see the Royal Commonwealth Society Collections cataloguing notes at
http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FRCMS%2020%2F3%2F20
Related collections: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Tymms collection on civil aviation, RCMS 20.
Workshop / factory indoor scenes. Men showing a large dead crocodile. Riverbank scenes of rope pulled ferry and women doing laundry. Men working the riverbed of several narrow water channels (races). Panners at work; fully laden ore waggons. Landscape near the gold mining plant (battery). People bathing in the river; several portraits of women and men wearing traditional jewellery. Extended market scenes. Panoramic landscape views; man carrying several wicker cages on a pole; river scenes. General views of a gold mining battery, possibly at Mpanda. Scenes at the Tabora rail station. Workers travelling in a small truck. Men sluicing for gold. Landscape and views of gold mining camp.
For a detailed shot list see the Royal Commonwealth Society Collections cataloguing notes at
http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FRCMS%2020%2F3%2F20
Related collections: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Tymms collection on civil aviation, RCMS 20.
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