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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221364-05
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1957
Country: Ghana,West Africa
Location: Accra
TC Begins: 00:42:16
TC Ends: 00:53:17
Duration: 00:11:01
And Now Tomorrow Pt. 2 of 3 Sign: Ministry of Communication; man w/ Ministry of Finance bicycle. Civil servants at desk talking. Sign Ministry of Education. Various buildings. General Post Office; traffic past. New buildings. Tall antennas of Ghana Broadcasting System. Int. of studios w/ woman wearing headphones at radio; men & another woman beside. Studio engineer; Men behind GBS microphone having discussion. Man looking at transmitter control panel dials. 00:44:17 Two Black women listening to radio. Flag at airport. Pilots boarding plane; people wave & planes taxi for take off. Ext. International Terminals. People boarding plane w/ stewardess & clipboard. Radar antenna turning. Man in control tower; weather balloon launched & monitored. 00:45:41 School kids out of school. Large Aburi Secondary School for girls; going from one building to another . Other schools w/ boys out. Accra’s public library building. History museum w/ tribal exhibits. Staffs. Ext. of Chieftaincy w/ Asantehene of Ashanti tribe walking past in robes. 00:47:58 Asantehene of Ashanti (?) arrives in Rolls Royce &, w/ umbrella held over him, walks into large building (Chieftancy ?). Ghana’s large hospitals. Symbolic sword of executioner outside of hospital buried in garden. 00:49:20 Sign: Gold Coast Housing Corporation & construction taking place w/ concrete moved in wheelbarrows. Pan over other buildings, many workers. Mixing concrete & carrying on heads. Bungalow houses, suburban developments. Trucks & buses past camera. Roads under construction w/ concrete curbs. Engineers looking at plans. Stoneworkers. 00:51:15 Countryside, pan to large mining company at Tarkwa & ?? Mining in open pit mines. Women & men cutting cocoa beans; gather in basket, cutting w/ machete as family helps cut up. African Independence; British Colonialism; Celebration; Agriculture; Natural Resources; Heritage; 1957;