Big Welcome (1960)

Item title reads big welcome. West Rietfontein and Swaziland, South Africa. Various exterior shots of the West Rietfontein gold mine. M, S as the camera pans across the massed crowd of Africans who have come to see the Prime Minister. M, S as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan walks towards the shaft, he is in miner s clothes. M, S as he raises his helmet for the benefit of the photographers and then turns and enters the cage below. M, S of the cage going down. M, S of smelters taking molten gold from furnace. M, S as Prime Minister comes forward and bends down to help lift a crucible containing molten gold, camera pans to the crucible as the gold is about to be poured into moulds. Various shots as he helps to pour it. M, S as Prime Minister points with interest. M, S stack of gold bars being one month s production and valued at approximately Â1, 000, 000. Various shots as the camera pans across massed crowd of Africans gathered at Swaziland to greet the Premier. C, U of The Paramount Chief