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Messages home from British Army and Navy personnel in India to their loved ones in the Liverpool and St Helens ...
Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Worcester area. Canteen Scenes.
Messages home from British Army and Navy personnel (including WRNS) in India to their loved ones in the Oldham area. ...
British servicemen in India, relaxing in a studio set bar with a piano accompanist, speak directly to camera to send ...
Messages home from British Army and Navy personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.
Messages home from British Army and RAF personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.
Messages home from British Army and RAF personnel in India to their loved ones in the Brighton area. Canteen scenes.
Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.
Messages home from British servicemen (RAF, RN) in Polonnaruwa, Ceylon to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland. External scenes.
Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland. Canteen scenes.
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Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland and to some in South Wales. ...
A survey of native life and conditions in Borneo, concluding with some fine shots of canoes shooting the rapids. Monkey ...
6 reels of colonial daily life in India, inc. military scenes. Mostly family scenes, childrens games (apple bobbing etc.), horsemanship, ...
Assembled film story detailing efforts of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 435 Squadron to provide rice to isolated ...
Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadon deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
A Royal ...
Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadron deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
Hill feature 676 near Taungtha, north-west of Meiktila, Burma, dominates the road to Meiktila and the Japanese are ...
After the capture of the Ava Bridge and the city of Sagaing in Central Burma officers from the ...
Several types of Japanese artillery, captured during recent fighting at Bishenpur and Ukhrul, are exhibited at the HQ ...
A captured Japanese machine gun is evaluated by British troops for record purposes at Pauktabin, Burma.
A Japanese Type ...
India, in 1895.
A small airstrip is built at the remote village of Saizang, 8 miles south west of Tiddim, Burma, ...
Travel short about a Merchant Navy engineer who calls at Hong Kong, Bangkok and other Eastern cities prior to accepting ...
An outline of the campaign in Burma from the abortive Japanese 'March on Delhi' offensive of 1944 to ...
Life in a town in Rajputana is shown, with shots of temples, markets, busy streets and means of transport. Closing ...
After victory over the Japanese in the battle for Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma Lieutenant-General W J Slim takes ...
Early footage from Ceylon.
Title card: 'Views and People in Ceylon'. Shots taken from the front of a train as ...
Life in Ceylon is shown. Elephants are seen and views of Colombo and the walled city of Galle are included. ...
Ceylon's tea industry.
INTEREST.
RL.1 Opening shots of an arch in Colombo and Ceylonese people. After the achievement of full independence, the opening of ...
Reel 1: Film showing flying boat operations and airmen's recreational activities at RAF Koggala in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). RAF Consolidated ...
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's ...
AMATEUR. Film of refugee and flood rescue operations in Burma.
Chaukan I. Diyum River. Flood rescues; elephants; Captain Whitehouse rescue. Rossiter ...
Residents of a Cheshire Home in Singapore shown in various activities, especially crafts, e.g., toy-making.
Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the ...
AMATEUR. A rally of Girl Guides attended by Olave Baden-Powell in Hyderabad.
Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and ...
From the port of London to Africa, India, Malaya, British New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and back again ...
INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the ...
Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, ...
Men of 14th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), having been evacuated by air from Burma are seen ...
Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near ...
Fund-raising film for the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps includes scenes of the Hong Kong Bureau's Supply and Transportation Departments, ...