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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
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 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. ...
6 reels of colonial daily life in India, inc. military scenes. Mostly family scenes, childrens games (apple bobbing etc.), horsemanship, ...
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 ...
India, in 1895.
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 ...
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's ...
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 ...
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, ...
Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near ...
India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and ...
Mrs Chisman has her horse brought from the stables at her colonial bungalow. Her groom in attendance. She gallops the ...
British soldiers of XV Corps celebrate Christmas 1944 on the Teknaf Peninsula on the Indo-Burma border.
A man leaves ...
A film showing the life of Clive and his rise from a counting-house clerk to fame and fortune.
ACTUALITY. Commissioner Higgins of the Salvation Army visits Ahmedabad Girls' School.
A group of girls of different ages, wearing uniform dresses ...
Convoy of troops and camel trains along (?) Khyber Pass enters camp. CU Camels. Mules and camp activities.
INTEREST. Some native girls demonstrating Coolie dancing.
The first shot is of a group of native women walking along. Men play ...