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INTEREST. Film shows how the discovery of oil has affected life in Kuwait. Opening shots of a desert sandstorm. Arabs ...
The distribution of supplies to local Burmese people in Lingadipa, Burma.
The men of 100th Brigade 20th Indian Division ...
Film showing the food contributions supplied to Britain by various colonies and dominions.
Although more land has been given ...
The town of Darjeeling, showing its life and work. Re-edited material from DARJEELING (Secrets of India series).
Censor certificate (18). ...
Shot by Sergeant Hammond: wideshots of the game in progress, shot from the back of a lorry, giving a view ...
Dutch civilians, presumably recently released from Japanese internment, play airmen of RAF Batavia at football.
Footage of the game ...
Scenes of two football matches on the Indo-Burma border, including England versus Scotland and a local RAF team ...
A view of Ceylon towards the end of the war, looking back over the period of defensive war, ...
Following closely behind the advancing British troops in Burma the Madras Sappers and Miners build an airstrip at ...
"PRELUDE TO CONFLICT" asks why it was allowed to happen and finds the weakness of states created at Versailles, change ...
Film showing the variety of roles in the Royal Navy by illustrating four seamen, each working in a ...
Indian Air Force 1 Squadron is presented with a Japanese sword in recognition for its service to Fourteenth ...
INTEREST. Working elephants in India.
Titles (1). Gap (4). MS three elephants walk along a beach past the camera. In the ...
1934 footage of an annual Raj sporting event, the Kadir Cup Meeting. Competitors and visitors travel on elephants to the ...
RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft deliver supplies 'over the Hump' of the Himalayas from Dum Dum, India to ...
Film opens with captions detailing the history of, and current work of, the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU). "1914-1918 Ambulance trains ...
ACTUALITY. The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page aircraft after the flight from England.
Main title (7). "The arrival in ...
A record of an expedition from Burma to China. The film includes landscape shots, scenes of agriculture, market and street ...
Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.
Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. ...
An edited production by the SEAC Film Unit (British) shows how 'SEAC', the newspaper of South East Asia ...
Amateur film. Funeral procession of 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bengal 1937-9, in Calcutta in 1939.
The film opens with a map of India, and continues with scenes from Miss Newman's travels beginning with brief shots ...
Empire premiers at Cambridge University, including Mackenzie King of Canada, and the Maharajah of Burdan (44ft).