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A look at the end of 150 years of British colonial rule in Hong Kong, featuring interviews with Hong Kong ...
ARMY MOBILE NEWS TEAM SHOTLIST
(The following data has been copied, without amendment, from Army Mobile News Team computer discs.)
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Hong Kong 1997. A man returns to his place of birth to find work but, unable to find a job, ...
Recruitment Videos for the Hong Kong Police Department, showing various crisis scenarios involving police action, with captions: 'Imagine Hong Kong ...
An outline of the history of the State of Kotah, including extracts from vintage 16mm films of the late Maharao ...
Two-part documentary about the life and work of Jackie Pullinger, who works among Triads addicted to heroin in Hong Kong's ...
William Savage, a collector for the British East India Company is drawn into the Thug cult (a group which strangles ...
The man alleged to be behind Triad violence in Britain is confronted in this programme in the heart of Hong ...
A parable about the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Report on the negotiations with the Chinese government on the fate of British control of Hong Kong on the expiry ...
Epic drama set in Chandrapore in the 1920s, about the relationships between a group of English people and a Muslim ...
Recruiting film for Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), based around an interview for an officer's commission.
Colonel ...
About the experiences of two young English women in India, two generations apart, in the 1920s and 1980s. Anne, a ...
Biopic of famed Indian lawyer and activist Mahatma Gandhi, whose methods of non-violent protest against the British Empire led to ...
Report on present day Hong Kong which examines the implications for the Colony's future once the lease on the New ...
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, following the experiences of a new cadet.
A 16 year old boy on ...
Shows how Hong Kong has developed from a trading port in the 19th century to an international centre of world ...
General film on Hong Kong and its people, covering the contrast of city and rura l life, customs, beliefs, cuisine, ...
Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong ...
A look at the Metro-Cammell factory in Birmingham which designs and builds a variety of metro trains, looking in particular ...
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the ...
Items include: Boat people arriving in Hong Kong [7.32 dur] Botha talking about the new Muzorewa government in Rhodesia [5.05 ...
A video made for Steel Brothers from original 35mm film to record their timber operations in the forests of Burma ...
Shows the sights and sounds of Hong Kong
Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly ...
1880's: Tale of two tough British sergeants, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, who journey from India through Afghanistan to the ...
Highlights of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's visit to Hong Kong in 1975 Highlights of Queen Elizabeth II and ...
Short documentary, with a recruiting aim, showing the work of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
"The Space Age ...
Documentary about the prolific Hong Kong film industry which rolls off 250 featu res a year.
Shows the opportunities for industrial investment offered by Hong Kong
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, focusing on the "Dragon Squadron", based in Hong Kong. The Dragon Squadron is responsible ...
Film made in 1973 during the first Hong Kong Arts Festival, showing various aspects of Hong Kong, and extracts from ...
An account of the method by which Hong Kong Kong island and Kowloon on the mainl and were joined by ...
How the mile wide stetch of water separating Hong Kong from the mainland was lin ked by a twin tube ...
Film showing the variety of roles in the Royal Navy by illustrating four seamen, each working in a ...
Shows the daily life of a Thai family during the rice harvest
Travelogue of Hong Kong
Army recruiting advertisement.
A VC10 of Transport Command comes in for a night landing at Hong Kong. Among the ...
Presents a tour of Hong Kong and its people, from the business man's point of vi ew, and showsits value ...
A man shown working in a machine shop wants more from life and, following the example ...
Shows the many tourist attractions of Hong Kong
India, in 1895.
The landscape, life and culture of Hong Kong together with its industrial potent ial and development
Dramatised recruitment film for prospective Royal Navy officers.
1. Prospective recruits (in civvies) are taken onboard HMS Dolphin; sequence ...