| FIRST STEP TO SELF RULE ? First free elections results in Gold Coast in favour of Convention People's Party. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5689 |
| Catalog #: | 211310 | |
| Clip Number: | 211310-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 51/15 | |
| Timecode: | 01:44:35 - 01:45:59 | |
| Location: | Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana) | |
| Year Shot: | 1951 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Results ELECTIONS: Voting INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Colonialism LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Ghana | |
| Description: | FIRST STEP TO SELF- RULE? Elections in Ghana. Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana), Africa. LV. Pan, native people queuing up outside polling station to vote in the first free elections for the Legislative Assembly. SV. Native people being checked into booth. SV. Pan, native people waiting outside station. SV. Europeans filing into polling station. SV. Top view, Governor General of Gold Coast with wife Lady Arden-Clarke arriving at polling station for inspection. CU. & SV. Vote CPP (Convention People's Party) sign. LV. Exterior Fort James prison where Kwame Nkrumah, leader of CPP is imprisoned. MV. & SV. Native people outside polling station. CU. Woman with baby slung on back. MV. Chief Ga Manche Nii Tackiekommey II (Ga Manche Nii Tacke KomeII) with other Chiefs. SV. Polling station sign. SV. People inside polling station voting. CU. White hand writing cross on ballot. CU. Ballot papers being put into box. SV. Pan natives waiting for result. CU. Women in crowd waiting. SV. Official piling up ballot papers. SV. Top view, ballot papers being checked and counted. SV. K. A. Gbedemah, Deputy Chairman of CPP and Mr. T. Hutton Mills, both CPP candidates, with Principal Returning Officer Mr. John Duncan, watching counting. SV. Night shot, crowd awaiting results. LV. Returning officer on balcony announcing result. SV. Hutton Mills, a victorious candidate, bowing. SV. Crowd cheering. SV. Candidates and returning officer waving to crowd on balcony. (Dupe.Neg.) election, colonialism, imperialism | |
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