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Recently liberated Allied prisoners of war and internees are shown around the Royal Navy London Class heavy cruiser ...
Shows the course of events leading up to the relief of Lucknow.
With the Allied reoccupation Japanese troops are used to remove stores of Japanese 'banana' money from banks in ...
Shot in Hong Kong, the action takes place in the ramshackle settlement of refuge es known as Rennies Mill. Photography: ...
Shot on 7 October 1945: footage from a landing craft approaching the shore showing two Landing Craft Assaults (LCAs) and ...
A survey of the damage done to the Ava Bridge over the Irrawaddy River, Burma, is carried out ...
The first batch of freed civilian internees leave Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, and are evacuated by the Royal ...
With the Japanese surrender and Allied occupation of south east Asia, large numbers of forced labourers are returned ...
Documentary on the war in Burma.
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of ...
A report on life in Korea and Malaya - featuring jungle patrols searching for terrorists, a day in the life ...
Report on problems of population and labour in Hong Kong. This Modern Age Series no. 34
After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian extremists, the village of Bekassi ...
Scenes of the aftermath of a raid by Japanese aircraft against the motor transport of 123rd Brigade and ...
Review of the main events of the year, including signing of Atlantic Pact; end of Berlin blockade; advance of Communism ...
Show Places:- N. Rhodesia builds new cinemas.
Back from Malaya:- Beira, troopship brings back 1st batt.
Rhodesian African Rifles.
Fish out of Water:- ...
Documentary on Hong Kong
Episodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a ...
After a sharp rain shower washes away a temporary diversion on the Sittang River south of Toungoo, Burma, ...
Views of the River Chindwin, Burma, as seen from a DUKW ('duck') amphibious truck.
Landscape view of the River ...
Men of the 178th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, manhandling Ordnance QF 25-pounder field guns over muddy ground in Yambo, Burma.
Notes
Troops ...
Bad road conditions caused by monsoon rains around Yambo, Burma.
Muddy conditions for 72nd Brigade 36th Division make driving ...
Army recruiting advertisement.
A man shown working in a machine shop wants more from life and, following the example ...
Life on a road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.
Main title and credits (48). Bullock and camel carts ...
Reel 1: A goods train drives towards camera with its drivers or stokers leaning out from the footplate. A sign ...
Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.
Aerial footage of the road in ...
Armoured vehicles and motor transport of 63 Brigade, 17th Indian Division, seen on the road to Rangoon, Burma.
A ...
Story of escapades in foreign parts of millionaire's son. Written by Don Hartman and Frank Butler
Title card: "Vivaphone" Film. Title card: 'The Rollicking Rajah'. First verse and chorus of 'The Rolling Rajah'. The film set ...
Travelogue of India; edited from material supplied by the Government of India.
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter showing the work of the Bible Churchman's Missionary Society's (B.C.M.S.) mission in ...
Information film about manufacture of tea by CWS. Includes footage from their plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the CWS Westhall ...
Portrait of the British forces helping to defend Aden.
Behind the tranquillity of the Aden coast (sunbathing on beach) ...
Report on present day Hong Kong which examines the implications for the Colony's future once the lease on the New ...
Views of the C-in-C Middle East, Secretary General of the South Arabian League, Acting High Commissioner and various ...
Reel 1: Men playing cricket; they are all wearing cricket whites. An Indian marching band performing. Various close-ups on different ...
A jeep carrying four men and towing a trailer full of medical supplies pulls up. Two men examine the trailer ...
Marine Wilson plays the bagpipes to a laughing audience of Chinese children sitting on the bonnet of a jeep. Sweets ...
Technical documentary illustrates the brewing plant installed in 1945 on board a converted Blue Funnel Line Amenities ship ...
I. Sequence showing Kowloon power station, and lines of coolie women carrying logs to the operative boiler. HA.LS onto a ...
Scenes of the Royal visit to the respective countries
ACTUALITY. A record of Edward, Prince of Wales' visit to India and Nepal, 1921. Prince at Calcutta; the Malakand Pass; ...
Film showing the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on location in the New Territories, Hong Kong.
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st ...
Mute unedited film apparently relating to the relief of the West Kents by the Hampshires in Western Pahang ...
A rubber plantation in Malaya, showing the production of rubber, and the welfare and living conditions of the workers.
The rubber industry in Malaya.
The rubber plantation with tappers doing their job. From June 1948 onwards, when Malaya's ...