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Training of the first 400 of Singapore's National Servicemen.
Study of Singapore's first general election.
Electioneering posters for the first election to Assembly with an elected majority. `The Vote Is ...
Film showing the community of Brunei, indicating how life here is changing fast.
The film shows: the history of ...
START 10:00:00 Opening titles
10:00:18 Scenes on the quayside at Tilbury Docks as soldiers from various regiments and corps in the ...
Map of Middle East with Kuwait highlighted, map of Port of Kuwait illustrating the Port Anchorage Basin and the location ...
Film showing the importance of Yong Peng, with particular emphasis on the contrast between past, present and future.
The ...
Mute unedited film apparently relating to the relief of the West Kents by the Hampshires in Western Pahang ...
Seventh film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This ...
Film explaining the merits of the Malayan Federation's Employee's Provident Fund.
Many happy families, such as the Wongs, can ...
INTEREST. Film shows how the discovery of oil has affected life in Kuwait. Opening shots of a desert sandstorm. Arabs ...
Amateur film shot by Flight Lieutenant Denis "Nick" Nichols prior to becoming training officer to the Hong Kong ...
The process of planning, constructing and operating a jungle fort (Fort Dixon) in the jungles of Pahang.
Over aerial ...
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot ...
Visit by Lady Limerick to BRC, , Penang, Malaya 1953.
Shot of Union flag; outside gathering: chairs lined up/women in RC ...
The people of Malaya celebrate the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953.
The film opens ...
Life in Malaya during the Emergency.
Jungle scenes during the Communist uprising. A rubber planter and his lifestyle in the Emergency. ...
Government information film about a coastal irrigation and rice growing scheme.
Malaya imports food, buying rice from abroad with money ...
Story of how an American adventurer foils a Red plot to blow up Hong Kong.
ACTUALITY. Procession to the City Hall in Singapopre, the arrival of the Governor and the Duchess, inspection of the guard ...
Duchess greeted by Royal Family at London Airport on return from Malaya. Flashback to highlights of tour which included Borneo, ...
She inspects the RAF Malay regiment, opens a Tuberculosis clinic, receives hon. Freedom if city, visits George VI dockyard, military ...
In Negri Sembilan, one of the nine states of the Malayan Federation, nineteen tribal chieftains renew their allegiance to the ...
The General arrives at Kuala Lumpur to take over as High Commissioner of Malaya, and is greeted and shown the ...
Story of terrifying adventures of rubber planter and his wife in Malaya whose estate is attacked by bandits.
A report on life in Korea and Malaya - featuring jungle patrols searching for terrorists, a day in the life ...
Scenes of the Royal visit to the respective countries
Propaganda film encouraging Malayans to inform on Communist Terrorists (CTs) in return for cash rewards.
Narration over dramatic incident. ...
Film showing the resettlement of Chinese squatters from the edge of the Malayan jungle, away from the Communist ...
"This C.O.I film is a Crown Film Unit Production of vital interest to all peace-loving peoples today, for the "Alien ...
Land clearance for a rubber plantation.
The Gordon Highlanders, on a tour of the Malayan jungle, search huts for bandits, taking a prisoner in the process, ...
Colonial Secretary Mr Oliver Lyttelton is interviewed following his return from a visit to Malaya.
Episodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a ...
Title cards. Shots filmed from a vessel as it enters the harbour. Singapore is 'the seventh largest port in the ...
Native craft; deep-draught vessels; dry docks; pipe-loading of latex; rubber pla ntations; pineapple fields; the battle of malaria; internal transport ...
A general review of Malaya, which seems to be a double battleground, containing a fight against Communism and a struggle ...
The Jones Collection is made up of films taken by the renowned epidemiologist and expert on tropical disease, Cenydd Richard ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is ...
Amateur film shot by Major William Rhodes James while serving with the 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles in ...
Report on problems of population and labour in Hong Kong. This Modern Age Series no. 34
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
8 reels. 1. The Tait children with deer.
2. Scenes in Malaya.
3. The Tait boys in the garden in Malaya.
4. Holiday ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the ...
Attempts to smuggle rubber out of Japanese occupied Java.