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Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The ...
The horse race.
Horse racing in Calcutta.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
With the fall of the Burmese capital Rangoon the Allies stage a victory parade.
A podium with dignitaries and ...
Not long after the liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, ...
INTEREST. Scenes of life and customs in Calcutta and Bombay.
A busy street in Calcutta filmed from the top of a ...
A week before the handover of responsibility for Burma from military to civil administration, a parade is held ...
Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.
Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning ...
Scenes in the neighbourhood of Kappali, Burma, the site of a S.P.G. mission station.
Burmese villagers of Ywama village, six miles west of Kindaunggyi, north of Taungup in the Arakan, Burma, celebrate ...
Viscount Wavell and Lady Wavell visit an RAF airfield.
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft with Union flag flying from the ...
Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of ...
Visit of the Reverend T Roberts, Society of Jesus, Archbishop of Bombay and Vicar Delegate to His Majesty's ...
United States Army Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan (Commander of the Burma-India Theatre) arrives in his private Douglas C47 Skytrain ...
Lieutenant-General Leese pays a visit to IV Corps which has been fighting in the Meiktila region of central ...
Lieutenant-General F A M Browning, Chief of Staff of South East Asia Command, visits positions held by the ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, visits the officers and men who helped ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia, and American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan visit the ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.
An ...
Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and ...
Journey to Hunan, China. Followed by aspects of Chinese life. The work of the Methodist hospital at Shaoyang and their ...
Arrival of RAF Hastings. Visit to South Korea during Korean War: take off in Auster, aerial views of devastated Seoul, ...
The visit of Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim to 2nd Division area at Ondaw, Burma.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, commander ...
Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.
The film shows: how people from many races have settled ...
Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari ...
Personnel of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force arrive by air at an RAF airfield in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Distant ...
Reel 1: Two airwomen sunbathing in a garden. Two women in civilian clothes sitting on a gate. A woman mounts ...
Seventh film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This ...
An explanation of the background to the War in the Far East and of its probable strategic development, ...
I. 'INDIA.' An unidentified merchant ship is berthed in Calcutta Docks having arrived with a consignment of Australian wheat in ...
I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army M3 Stuart light tanks and soft-skinned vehicles drive along a jungle track during the fighting ...
India.
A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this ...
(Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Malaysia and Singapore.
The Chenderoh Dam near Taiping, on the Perak river which feeds a hydro-electric ...
Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to ...
Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward ...
Palestine in the present day, arranged as to illustrate the New Testament of the Bible.
Scenes of the life of the people of Palestine, contrasting the ancient and the modern.
"Wedding of the Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghraji Saheb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh 1933". "Part I. The Bridegroom. ...
Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by ...
Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the third Arakan ...
Amateur film of the Madras district of India and the coast line.
Indians carrying goods to market in panniers (8). Fishermen, ...
Filmed scenes of Palestine to illustrate Biblical sayings and images.
Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the ...
A parable set in Palestine at the time of Christ.
Travelogue, following a journey from Mexico to Borneo, via Singapore, covering local flora, wildlife, peoples and customs.
1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.
23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.
Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an ...