Movies: Cherry Kearton

A 1930 black and white nature documentary featuring the jackass penguins in their native haunt in the South West coast of Africa....

Various shots of the Coronation procession for King George V....

When a wayward nun, Megildis, deserts her convent with a knight, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and takes place of Megildis, who makes her way through the world and its many vicissitudes....

The peculiar trait of the cuckoo, which tricks another bird into hatching her egg for her, is shown in color photography....

Inguti, an old African chief, recalls his life as a young hunter. He sets out to find food for the forthcoming feast. On reaching the shore of Fire Mountain lake he finds dead fish which he believes to be an ill omen. On his return, he warns the witc...

Silent documentary about the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition, featuring Theodore Roosevelt in the wilds of East Africa, in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda....

A record of the Kearton-Jones expedition to Kenya, in which Colonel Jones and his two cowboys lasso a variety of wild animals, including a lioness, a cheetah and rhinoceros....

Scenes of various animals in their natural habitat including hippopotami, giraffes, leopards, zebras, elephants, lions and vultures....

Travelogue of Uganda around the Semliki river....

Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; the Sultan of Fallata; a ceremonial parade of Arab and Nuba chieftains....

Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, Borneo, Canada and America....

The antics of Sally, a pet chimpanzee, in the English countryside....

A 1926 black and white documentary film compilation from naturalist and film pioneer Cherry Kearton of his time in Africa....

A commissioner's influence causes a savage to buy European clothes and go to church....