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A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a ...
Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from ...
Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt ...
Short section of footage of a railway locomotive for 'So This Is India'.
A train steams towards camera and ...
Scenes of a Roman Catholic Mass held in a pagoda at Sadaung, Burma.
Pagoda spires. Several takes of an ...
DRAMA. English governess in South Africa is rescued from enforced marriage to a lecherous Malay by the efforts of two ...
DOCUMENTARY.
r.1 Part 1 - the Buddha. Scenes of dark jungle with glimpses of animals, ruined temples and tropical vegetation (180), ...
Journeys by dhow from Kuwait to East Africa and back, filmed in 1936-38 and 1946.
ORIGINAL COLOUR FOOTAGE FOR LAST SECTION OF SONS OF SINBAD: EAST AFRICA, SOUTH ARABIAN SHORE, KUWAIT
Amateur film. The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh, particularly at Chirala, about 200 miles north of Madras on the east ...
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
An intelligence officer briefs pilots of RAF 136 Squadron at Rumkhapalong airfield, whose Supermarine Spitfires kick up clouds ...
Spitfires of RAF 132 Squadron operate at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and adopt two local Chinese ...
Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...
Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.
Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the ...
From a true story - School pupil Maung Ba at school writes an essay on why he will remain a ...
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted ...
Scenes from Hong Kong including: pedestrians in the midday sun; latest fashions in ladies' frocks; men's wear; policemen and sailors ...
Scenes of Hong Kong, including: a variety of people in winter clothes; shops and shop signs; Christmas decorations in shops; ...
Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.
Bullock ...
Amateur film of the various stages in the digging of ditches to drain subsoil to assist in malaria control
Scenes of the journey through the Suez Canal, the crossing from Aden to Djibouti, and the train journey from Dijbouti ...
Hong Kong scenes including: the Lido at Repulse Bay; a Chinese bathing club and Dragon Boat race; the filmmakers leave ...
Supplies are dropped from a Dakota to a forward Army division, and local Burmese villagers are employed to ...
RAF Supermarine Spitfires of RAF 155 Squadron escort Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force ...
Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits Mandalay, Burma, with other senior ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division, probably ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, meets troops of 2nd Division.
A jeep marked ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command (SEAC), arrives by air in Rangoon, Burma, ...
The Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, makes a tour of inspection of ...
On a rainy day at Sungei Patani in Kedah, Malaya, thousands of men of the Japanese 94th Division ...
Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, ...
British troops seen coming ashore at Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), on parade and taking over Glugor seaplane base from ...
Main title (2). A fakir (dressed only in loin cloth) helps his two assistants to set up a pattern of ...
Documentary on the religious life in Jerusalem during the time of Christ.
INTEREST. Scenes from the Far East.
Crowds of native people at a quayside passing items from hand to hand to load ...
Amateur. Hindu religious festival in Singapore.
Women in saris. Crowds gathering. Children with balloons. Some women with flowers in their hair. ...
Government information film about a coastal irrigation and rice growing scheme.
Malaya imports food, buying rice from abroad with money ...
Infantry of 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles (99th Brigade, 17th Indian Division) supported by tanks, attack a Japanese ...
Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of ...