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Title cards. Shots filmed from a vessel as it enters the harbour. Singapore is 'the seventh largest port in the ...
Last of 13 parts in the documentary series which depicts the history of the Royal Navy during the Second World ...
Personal film footage of Singapore and Penang, malaysia, in c.1932.
Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks ...
Study of Singapore's first general election.
Electioneering posters for the first election to Assembly with an elected majority. `The Vote Is ...
The story of J.L. Wilson, Bishop of Singapore arrested by the Japanese Security Police for spying in 1943. His enduring ...
Four American sailors visit a club and meet Singapore Sue.
Amateur footage of various scenes in Malaysia.
Devil dancing in Singapore. Shots of a family and fishing scenes. The watch tower ...
Travelogue on Singapore, one of the world's natural junctions and one of the greatest international ports.
The port; street scenes, warehouses, ...
Native craft; deep-draught vessels; dry docks; pipe-loading of latex; rubber pla ntations; pineapple fields; the battle of malaria; internal transport ...
Sir Harold MacMichael, former High Commissioner for Palestine and now the King's special representative, arrives in Malaya before ...
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, arrives at Kallang airport ...
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits a forward airfield on the Mandalay Front, Burma.
Air Marshal ...
Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong with his ...
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits Rangoon, Burma.
RAF ensign flying from a flagpole. Air Marshal ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, newly appointed commander of 14th Army, arrives by air at Mingaladon airfield in Rangoon, ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits 11th East African Division.
At an ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in ...
Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.
Lockheed ...
Newsreel item on air travel to India.
Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots ...
Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.
Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry ...
A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) ...