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A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a ...
Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from ...
Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt ...
Short section of footage of a railway locomotive for 'So This Is India'.
A train steams towards camera and ...
Scenes of a Roman Catholic Mass held in a pagoda at Sadaung, Burma.
Pagoda spires. Several takes of an ...
DRAMA. English governess in South Africa is rescued from enforced marriage to a lecherous Malay by the efforts of two ...
DOCUMENTARY.
r.1 Part 1 - the Buddha. Scenes of dark jungle with glimpses of animals, ruined temples and tropical vegetation (180), ...
Journeys by dhow from Kuwait to East Africa and back, filmed in 1936-38 and 1946.
ORIGINAL COLOUR FOOTAGE FOR LAST SECTION OF SONS OF SINBAD: EAST AFRICA, SOUTH ARABIAN SHORE, KUWAIT
Amateur film. The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh, particularly at Chirala, about 200 miles north of Madras on the east ...
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
An intelligence officer briefs pilots of RAF 136 Squadron at Rumkhapalong airfield, whose Supermarine Spitfires kick up clouds ...
Spitfires of RAF 132 Squadron operate at Kai Tak airstrip, Kowloon, Hong Kong, and adopt two local Chinese ...
Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...
Static views of recently-liberated Singapore.
Views across the Straits of Johore. Views of the countryside surrounding Singapore. An Australian ...
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the ...
From a true story - School pupil Maung Ba at school writes an essay on why he will remain a ...
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted ...
Scenes from Hong Kong including: pedestrians in the midday sun; latest fashions in ladies' frocks; men's wear; policemen and sailors ...
Scenes of Hong Kong, including: a variety of people in winter clothes; shops and shop signs; Christmas decorations in shops; ...