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Queen Elizabeth and King George VI visit Victoria Falls in Rhodesia and meet ruler of Barotseland on their tour to southern Africa.

British monarchs tour to Africa. King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret visit the Victoria Falls, twice as high as Niagara Falls, on the Zambezi River running between Zambia and Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). King George VI presents a gift to the ruling Chief of Barotseland, Imwiko Lewanika, known as the Mbumu wa Litunga. Lozi natives dance and native residents play drums. Barotseland Chief rowed on boat by native Lozi men.

Date: 1947, April
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036723
Newsreel about Washington Senators baseball spring training

Newsreel entitled "Baseball Aces Warm Up Under Southern Skies." Shows Washington Senators at spring training, 1936 in Orlando, Florida. Shot of players bursting through huge paper baseball marked '1936.' Last one is coach and noted "baseball comedian" Nick Altrock. Players do warm up drills as Altrock clowns for the camera. Players toss medicine balls. Players wheel legs in unison.

Date: 1936, February 26
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041289
Doctor David Livingstone meeting Queen Victoria (dramatized), sharing his experience finding Victoria Falls and exploring Africa

Actors in dramatized scenes, together with actual footage of natural landmarks and wildlife in Africa. David Livingstone meets Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle. David Livingstone reports his discoveries in Africa, such as the Victoria Falls, which he named after the Queen. David Livingstone bows to Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria and her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Duchess of Kent and Strathearn), listens to David Livingstone. Thundering waters of Victoria Falls. Herds of zebra, letchwe and wildebeeste grazing in Southern African Savannah. Egrets circling above buffaloes in the African Savannah. Elands, sable antelopes, roan antelopes, druikers in forest. A cheetah waits for prey in rocky hill. Pelicans fly over a lake.

Date: 1925
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078566
African American women on farmland and a disabled man in a wheel chair in South Carolina, United States.

African American life and education in rural South Carolina, United States in the 1930s. Group of young African American women, possibly students, stand under a tree posing for the camera, and then they turn and head into a building. Two African American children clean the exteriors of a house with brooms. Disabled African American man sits on a wheel chair. Man greets the disabled man. View of a grave yard or cemetery. Child climbs into school bus. African American boy stands by the side of a car. View of building (possibly school building) and farm land in southern U.S state of South Carolina.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031581
Dramatizaion shows David Livingstone and party finding Lake Ngami, Livingstone couple talk about their future

Dramatization. Dr. David Livingstone’s party finds Lake Ngami, a shallow lake north of the Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana, Africa. A San Bushman points David Livingstone towards Lake Ngami. David Livingstone and his entourage rests by the Lake Ngami. Back in Kolobeng (in present-day Botswana), David Livingstone mulls over between further exploring and living a sedentary life with family. Mrs. Mary Moffat Livingstone holds her newborn baby. David Livingstone pulls out and unfolds a map showing southern Africa. David Livingstone sits beside his wife, Mary Moffat Livingstone. David Livingstone and Mary Moffat Livingstone talk about their future. David Livingstone cuddles his newborn baby.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078560
Doctor examines dead bodies of plague patients to prevent its spread in North Africa.

A U.S. Navy training film about the prevention and cure of plague in North Africa (likely Libya or Algeria). Aerial views of different areas in North Africa. Map of the world shows areas affected by plague. Areas in Africa, South America and Asia with maximum cases of plague. Doctors make efforts to prevent plague as they discuss. Native African woman on a street. Dead bodies of African civilians who died due to plague, lying on ground. Doctors examine dead bodies and dead rats to check for spread of plague.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077552