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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Airmen enjoy some time on leave in Bombay (Mumbai), India, while awaiting embarkation for return to the United ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...
Shows the course of events leading up to the relief of Lucknow.
Shot on 7 October 1945: footage from a landing craft approaching the shore showing two Landing Craft Assaults (LCAs) and ...
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of ...
After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian extremists, the village of Bekassi ...
Episodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a ...
After a sharp rain shower washes away a temporary diversion on the Sittang River south of Toungoo, Burma, ...
Life on a road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.
Main title and credits (48). Bullock and camel carts ...
Reel 1: A goods train drives towards camera with its drivers or stokers leaning out from the footplate. A sign ...
Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.
Aerial footage of the road in ...
Title card: "Vivaphone" Film. Title card: 'The Rollicking Rajah'. First verse and chorus of 'The Rolling Rajah'. The film set ...
Travelogue of India; edited from material supplied by the Government of India.
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter showing the work of the Bible Churchman's Missionary Society's (B.C.M.S.) mission in ...
Reel 1: Men playing cricket; they are all wearing cricket whites. An Indian marching band performing. Various close-ups on different ...
ACTUALITY. A record of Edward, Prince of Wales' visit to India and Nepal, 1921. Prince at Calcutta; the Malakand Pass; ...
Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).
The lives and customes of the Hindus of India, based on a book by Father Lhande.
RAF and Royal Navy salvage personnel attempt to recover a sunken Short Sunderland flying boat from the River ...
ACTUALITY. Salvation Army members and villagers in India parade past a camera. In two parts.
No titles. Men and women in ...
Salvation army workers among the Bhil tribesmen, caring for Burmese and Ceylonese children, and the work of the Catherine Booth ...
Indian Engineers of 17th Indian Division clear Japanese mines from the village of Kandaung prior to IV Corps' ...