A picture, early in the war, of the armed solidarity of the British Empire.

The film serves to illustrate ...

Scenes of the first Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel arriving in Bombay and sightseeing in Delhi.

Troopship approaches dockside ...

The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large ...

I. "S.E.A.C." a. WAAFs arrive (by ship) in India and, as well as starting new duties, do some sightseeing. b. ...

The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their ...

At MacArthur Camp Lord and Lady Mountbatten talk with officers. Mountbatten inspects a guard of honour. He speaks with an ...

The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.

The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted ...

Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.

Shot of ...

INTEREST. The growing, collection and processing of tea in Ceylon.

No main title. Tea bushes planted out by natives under European ...

The official film record of the Prince of Wales' tour of India and Burma, 1921-22. Covering Bombay, Poona, Bharatpur, Allahabad, ...

A journey by car and camel, through Persia and on to Quetta in Baluchistan.

Camel caravan (57-68). Man leading mules (71-75). ...

A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the ...

After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.

General view of ...

ACTUALITY. Hunting tigers in north India.

Hunters travelling on elephants to a rendezvous from which the elephants advance in a line. ...

Architect Herald Berger is commissioned as advisor to Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur. He becomes involved with Seeta, an Indian ...

The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.

Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). ...

Everyday life and places of interest around the areas of Midnapore and Chittagong.

A steamer in the background and in the ...

Film documenting the training of the Kuantan Police force, 'after three and a half years of enforced idleness ...

After crossing the Irrawaddy River, Burma, troops of the 33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division consolidate the bridgehead ...

INTEREST. An elephant under the dirction of its trainer moves three large tree trunks over muddy ground (30ft). [16mm].

Note: Contained ...

INTEREST. Indian elephants at work hauling timber.

An elephant team pushes its way through a thicket (20). Natives fell and trim ...

Travancore Game Reserve, Bombay, and Bakers Estate, Komeron, Cochin.

A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes ...

Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The ...

The horse race.

Horse racing in Calcutta.

Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.

Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...

Not long after the liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, ...

INTEREST. Scenes of life and customs in Calcutta and Bombay.

A busy street in Calcutta filmed from the top of a ...

Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning ...

Viscount Wavell and Lady Wavell visit an RAF airfield.

RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft with Union flag flying from the ...

Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of ...

Lieutenant-General F A M Browning, Chief of Staff of South East Asia Command, visits positions held by the ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, visits the officers and men who helped ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.

An ...

Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and ...

Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari ...

Reel 1: Two airwomen sunbathing in a garden. Two women in civilian clothes sitting on a gate. A woman mounts ...