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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since ...
ACTUALITY. The Governor of Bengal, Lord Lytton, inspects the Governor's Bodyguard in Calcutta.
Main title. The Governor and his party get ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian ...
"ARRIVAL OF MAH H.R.H. JIND (sic). Inspection of the guard of honour" (5). A train arrives and officers in white ...
British, American, Indian and Chinese personnel released from Japanese captivity in Rangoon arrive by hospital ship in Calcutta.
A ...
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and ...
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly ...
Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
Wide shot showing a very large structure built of Bailey bridging sections. Men of the Madras Sappers and Miners heaving ...
INTEREST Travelogue.
A Baluchistani on a hill top surveying the country (51-56); shots of the country (75-87); the Bolan Pass (95-130); ...
Short documentary about Bassein, a fishing village 25 miles north of Bombay on the shores of the Arabian ...
The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its ...
The RAF lead a parade in Calcutta (Kolkata) India, mounted to mark the anniversary of the Battle of ...
Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).
Aerial ...
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes ...
His Excellency the Governor-General of Bengal, Mr Richard Gardiner Casey and Lieutenant-General W J ("Bill") Slim visit Mandalay, ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for ...
Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. Opening shot of a map of India. An arrow indicates the Deccan States and then the Rajputana States and ...
ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.
Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white ...
In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess ...
ACTUALITY. Coming-of-age celebrations for a Maharajah in India.
A procession of elephants with howdahs passes the camera, crowds run beside it ...
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn ...
A doctor of the Indian Army Medical Corps administers a blood transfusion in the field to a wounded ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by ...
An outline of the history of the State of Kotah, including extracts from vintage 16mm films of the late Maharao ...
Copies of Maharao of Kotah's 16 mm films:
Kutch-Sant marriage 1928. Shikar (Hunting) in Kutch (1928?). Betrothal and marriage of Maharao ...
17th Indian Division IV Corps on the road between Nyaungu and Meiktila, Burma.
Sherman tanks of Probyn's Horse (5th ...
Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as ...
On Ramree Island off the Arakan coast of Burma, local civilians welcome British troops, who go sightseeing with ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, presents British awards to personnel of the United States ...
An Indian Durbar' (1926) Travelogue style film showing coronation of Sir Hari Singh as Maharajah of Kashmir.
Production / Donor Details: ...
EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA SPREADS DESOLATION. Worst shock for 37 years takes heavy toll of life and property, leaving hosts homeless ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BIGGEST CONVOY REACHES INDIA THE MASTER PLAN THE DAY SHIFT TAKE OVER ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES ...