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8,000 RANGERS COME TO TOWN INDIA PLAN ANNOUNCED MORE V-DAY ARRIVALS FRANCE BEAT ...
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For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: WELSH NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH ADMITTED AS BARD FESTIVAL IN INDIA ...
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For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ENGLAND ROUT DUTCH SOCCER XI MR. ATTLEE OPENS FIRST POST-WAR LONDON FLATS ...
The friends of a murdered man go out into the hotels and bazaars of Calcutta to find the murderer.
Messages home from British Forces stationed in Malaya
Messages home from British Forces stationed in India
A detachment of No.1 Army Commando lands on Lamma Island, a few miles from Hong Kong Island, to ...
Srinagar, Spring 1946
Srinagar, 1946
A film depicting the work of the Palestine Police (i.e. British Police) training and going about their work in Palestine. ...
Instructional film, showing daily life in Palestine two thousand years ago.
AMATEUR. Amateur footage of Delhi - street scenes; Viceroy's house; mosque; Delhi Junction station, etc..
Lakes. Monument. Fountain. Archway. Kingsway with ...
Footage shot with live sound at Changi Jail, Singapore, showing three convicted Japanese war criminals being hanged.
Three shots, ...
At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.
A hooded Japanese prisoner, probably Sergeant-Major Nobuo Iijima ...
Shot from beneath the gallows in the courtyard ...
Film opens with captions detailing the history of, and current work of, the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU). "1914-1918 Ambulance trains ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan ...
Amateur film of travels in hilly country. Also elephants seen performing and natives dancing. [Assigned: 'Ceylon' scratched onto the reel ...
The life of a village carpenter and his family in Palestine two thousand years a go.
Reel 1: Shot looking through a set of gates towards a large white building (probably Government House); a sentry is ...
Amateur film of the spring festival at Udaipur. Views of the Residency and its garden. Poeple dressed in their best ...
Political and social life in India.
Credits. Crowd of Indians. Commentary states that among the contradictions of India a new ...
I. "FIGHTING FOURTH WELCOMED HOME". At Karachi, Fourth Division return home after over six years of active service in the ...
I. "THE CABINET MISSION ARRIVES IN INDIA". The Cabinet Mission arrive to try and break the political deadlock in India. ...
I. "DEWAS SENIOR CELEBRATES VICTORY ON RULER'S VICTORY" Maharajah of Dewas presides at his own Durbar accompanied by the nobles ...
Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above ...
In Hong Kong, British and Indian troops of the so-called 'Brindjap' force, bound for the occupation of Japan, ...
Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.
Mountbatten ...
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The first trials of Japanese war criminals at Singapore get underway.
General view of the courtroom with the accused ...
At Toungoo, Burma, Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of RAF 62 Squadron are loaded with sacks of rice for ...
Recruiting film for British volunteers for the Palestine Police illustrates the special nature of police duties in the ...
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is ...