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Lord and Lady Selkirk visiting native villages (unknown location,most probably Borneo).
Production / Donor Details: The Selkirk collection belonged the late ...
Singapore to Trincomalee. Naval expedition. Singapore harbour with anchored naval ships. Royal Navy frigate F107. Naval dockyard with floating dock. ...
English garden domestic scenes with dogs. Hong Kong harbour & views of houses on hills surrounding city. Confrontation with Chinese ...
A senior British officer of 26th Indian Division meets Burmese civilians.
A group of servicemen, presumably Army officers, seen ...
Drama. Historical. The child of a sepoy is dangerously ill. Despite her husband's prejudices, the sepoy's wife goes to the ...
The Right Reverend Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, holds a church service at Kranji prisoner of war camp ...
Scenes after the reoccupation of Rangoon including a march past of troops, church service of thanksgiving, and landing ...
British servicemen go riding in Darjeeling, Bengal Province, India.
A mountain range shrouded with cloud. Five British servicemen ride ...
Troops of 19th Indian Division lay on a special party for children, recently released from Japanese internment, in ...
Amateur film of a climbing party in Kashmir.
Team of men with packs walking through mountain pass (11). Snow and mountains, ...
Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.
Amateur footage: Shillong races, golf, picnics (attended by Lord and Lady Willingdon) and market scenes.
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least ...
A military mission from Siam (Thailand) arrives at the headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia ...
Film of the signing of the Anglo-Malayan Mutual Defence Treaty on October 12, 1957.
The various participants arrive and ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
Story of pearl smuggler's adventures in Singapore.
A travelogue with a heavy emphasis on Kodak goods - arriving at the port, kodak goods being unloaded and then ...
Pathe film of Singapore. The film includes waterfront scenes, and scenes in the centre of Singapore. It also shows the ...
Scenes from recently-liberated Singapore, including aerial views of the harbour, Japanese internees being put to work and the ...
Training of the first 400 of Singapore's National Servicemen.
The life of Singapore and variety provided by the many different cultures and cu stoms which find expression there.
Title cards. Shots filmed from a vessel as it enters the harbour. Singapore is 'the seventh largest port in the ...
Last of 13 parts in the documentary series which depicts the history of the Royal Navy during the Second World ...
Personal film footage of Singapore and Penang, malaysia, in c.1932.
Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks ...
Study of Singapore's first general election.
Electioneering posters for the first election to Assembly with an elected majority. `The Vote Is ...
The story of J.L. Wilson, Bishop of Singapore arrested by the Japanese Security Police for spying in 1943. His enduring ...
Four American sailors visit a club and meet Singapore Sue.
Amateur footage of various scenes in Malaysia.
Devil dancing in Singapore. Shots of a family and fishing scenes. The watch tower ...
Travelogue on Singapore, one of the world's natural junctions and one of the greatest international ports.
The port; street scenes, warehouses, ...
Native craft; deep-draught vessels; dry docks; pipe-loading of latex; rubber pla ntations; pineapple fields; the battle of malaria; internal transport ...
Sir Harold MacMichael, former High Commissioner for Palestine and now the King's special representative, arrives in Malaya before ...
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, arrives at Kallang airport ...
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits a forward airfield on the Mandalay Front, Burma.
Air Marshal ...
Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong with his ...
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits Rangoon, Burma.
RAF ensign flying from a flagpole. Air Marshal ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, newly appointed commander of 14th Army, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield in Rangoon, ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in ...
Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.
Lockheed ...
Newsreel item on air travel to India.
Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots ...
Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.
Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry ...
A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) ...