Tymms Collection on civil aviation Film 20
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.
