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Life in a town in Rajputana is shown, with shots of temples, markets, busy streets and means of transport. Closing ...
After victory over the Japanese in the battle for Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma Lieutenant-General W J Slim takes ...
Early footage from Ceylon.
Title card: 'Views and People in Ceylon'. Shots taken from the front of a train as ...
Life in Ceylon is shown. Elephants are seen and views of Colombo and the walled city of Galle are included. ...
Ceylon's tea industry.
INTEREST.
RL.1 Opening shots of an arch in Colombo and Ceylonese people. After the achievement of full independence, the opening of ...
Reel 1: Film showing flying boat operations and airmen's recreational activities at RAF Koggala in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). RAF Consolidated ...
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's ...
AMATEUR. Film of refugee and flood rescue operations in Burma.
Chaukan I. Diyum River. Flood rescues; elephants; Captain Whitehouse rescue. Rossiter ...
Residents of a Cheshire Home in Singapore shown in various activities, especially crafts, e.g., toy-making.
Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the ...
AMATEUR. A rally of Girl Guides attended by Olave Baden-Powell in Hyderabad.
Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and ...
From the port of London to Africa, India, Malaya, British New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and back again ...
INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the ...
Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, ...
Men of 14th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), having been evacuated by air from Burma are seen ...
Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near ...
Fund-raising film for the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps includes scenes of the Hong Kong Bureau's Supply and Transportation Departments, ...