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Travelogue showing scenes from British North Borneo.
Opening with a train journey, the film shows views from the train as it ...
Troops parading. A large residence with bi-plane flying overhead and around bay.
HMS Roebuck anchors on the Thanzit River (Burma) to disembark troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade into LCIs ...
Film showing troops of 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment off duty in Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) and a visit by General ...
Travelogue of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Dramatised documentary using a story about faulty navigational radar to illustrate RAF life and work in the Far ...
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. ...
22 reels of footage short by Mark Tully and his sisters in India from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. ...
Information film about the benefits of the national radio service in Sarawak.
The film opens with a performance by ...
AMATEUR FILM. The aftermath of the September 1937 typhoon which struck Hong Kong at 2am. The first ferry sailed at ...
How the mile wide stetch of water separating Hong Kong from the mainland was lin ked by a twin tube ...
A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the United States Army Air Force arrives at Kallang Airport, Singapore, to ...
Men seen leaving US transport aircraft in Burma.
A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Dakota (C-47 Skytrain) transport ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...
Two months after the end of the Battle of Kohima a memorial is unveiled by Lieutenant-General Stopford commander ...
United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop ...
Brigadier General William Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, decorates five RAF Wing Commanders with the American Distinguished ...
Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.
At Rangoon docks a wide shot ...
Film about 'one of the prettiest villages in Malaya', which has become a centre for the curing of ...
Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...
Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...
An Anti-Tank Regiment enjoy the pleasure of an improvised oven and a well-organised post office at their camp ...
Shows the opportunities for industrial investment offered by Hong Kong
Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes ...