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Title: AKROPONG

Reference number: 3601

Date: 1949*

Director: filmed by James A Ballantyne

Sponsor: The Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 59.26 mins

Description: The work of the teacher training college for the Scottish Mission at Akropong on the Gold Coast.

Credits: gratefully acknowledge help received from Robert Robertson, W M Adair, I Onyeiji, Gold Coast Mission Staff, The Royal Scottish Museum

Shotlist: Akropong the Teacher Training College for the Schools of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast credits (0.37) a history of the Gold Coast (11.41) In 1946 the Legislative Council, (the Colony's governing body) was re-constituted with an elected unofficial African majority... Rev. C G Baeta, one of two elected members entitled to wear the Akropong badge...through it all the Church is at work c/u of pamphlet entitled "Minutes of Synod of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast held at Christiansborg, Accra. 9th - 12th July, 1946" (13.00) a history of the Presbyterian Church in the Gold Coast (16.51) (455ft)

Part II
exts. of Akropong College, shots of The Principal, Douglas Benzies MA BSc 1936-1947 The Bursar, John W Craig... and the African tutors in 1947... shots of them having a group photo taken with the students (4.24) students washing and ironing their clothes (6.25) shots of Visitors' Day and of classes being taken (16.46) (453 ft)

Part III
classes including those for blind children, gardening, brickmaking and pottery (13.46) (372ft)

Part IV
shots of roof tile making and construction of new building at the college (2.50) the annual sports day (7.47) every Sunday afternoon in term the College Missionary Society leads the students in practical evangelism... and shots of the consecration ceremony for leaving students, intercut with c/u of newspaper clipping from 'The Scotsman' reading "14 Killed in Accra Riots. Communist Incitement Almost Certain..." (11.36) The Gold Coast WILL be educated! - it matters supremely HOW and by WHOM! 'AKROPONG' is committed to the task... The End (12.03) (325ft)