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INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in North Borneo (Sabah).
Main title and credit (10). Village with houses on stilts above water, native canoe ...
Story of Prince Gautama and how he became Lord Buddha, the Enlightened One.
The army use deceptive tactics in order to mislead the Japanese in preparation for the crossing of the ...
A few miles from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma, the men of 123rd Mechanical Equipment Corps and 702nd ...
A record of the Preston Empire Day celebration of 22 May 1909.
A title introduces 'Preston Empire Day May 22nd 1909. ...
No main title. Men in military uniform disembarking from a small launch. A second launch from which the Prince and ...
ACTUALITY. Ranjitsinhji, practising at the nets prior to the First Test between England and Australia at Sydney, 13-17 December 1897. ...
MAIN TITLE Prince of Wales [later, Edward, Duke of Windsor] sets sail from Portsmouth for India on the 'Renown' (55ft).
Note: ...
Three senior air officers talking in front of a parked North American Harvard aircraft; one is an Air Marshal (possibly ...
1,403 freed Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees board the RMS Orbita at Rangoon, Burma, for repatriation, ...
Former Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Siam (Thailand), board a landing craft to a ...
INTEREST. A short procession of Indian men and women pass in front of the camera. The men are in the ...
Amateur film showing a procession of elephants in silver-plated armour in Jaipur; women spinning; the road to Amber; scenes of ...
No main title. A long procession of elephants slowly passes along a road lined with soldiers. Probably part of the ...
High angle shots from roof of Secretariat building of procession moving though Columbo with civilians all around. Twelve Spitfire Mk ...
Film made for Harrisons and Crosfield, publicising the company's contribution to Malayan national prosperity.
Malayan wealth is based on ...
Film showing the importance of Yong Peng, with particular emphasis on the contrast between past, present and future.
The ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary ...
Life in an agricultural village in the Punjab and the daily round.
Indian troops of 9th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment arrive at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, after a complex transshipping ...
Amateur film. Europeans and Indians at Puri, India.
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM. An expedition through the Borneo jungle to a pygmy settlement. All the `pygmies' smoke, including children from the ...
Qatar's new found prosperity due to the oil industry.
A film made to recruit Iraquis for the oil industry.