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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.   

 
 
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RAF VICKERS WELLINGTON MEDIUM BOMBERS ON THE INDO-BURMA... (1944)

Air Commodore Mellersh RAF, Air Commander Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command and Air Vice Marshal Stevens of ...

 

RED ROAD AIRSTRIP, CALCUTTA (24/6/1944) (1944)

Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the ...

 

ROAD LINES OF COMMUNICATION FROM DIMAPUR TO KALEWA... (1944)

Scenes on the road lines of communication from Dimapur, India, to Kalewa, Burma.

Aerial footage of the road in ...

 

SALVAGING A SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT ON THE BRAHMAPUTRA... (1944)

RAF and Royal Navy salvage personnel attempt to recover a sunken Short Sunderland flying boat from the River ...

 

SCENES FOLLOWING THE CAPTURE OF UKHRUL (7/7/1944) (1944)

Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as ...

 

SIR RONALD CROSS VISITS BURMA FRONT (26/11/1944) (1944)

Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.

Lockheed ...

 

STORY OF THE WEST AFRICAN TROOPS (31/10/1944) (1944)

The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...

 

SUPPLY LINES: CHITTAGONG TO DOHAZARI TO ARAKAN (1944... (1944)

Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by ...

 

SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER VISITS 3RD SPECIAL SERVICE... (1944)

The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special ...

 

TEMPLES OF SOUTH INDIA (1944)

Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the ...

 

the FIRST CONTINGENT OF THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE... (1944)

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

Troopship approaches dockside ...

 

THE NAWAB OF BHOPAL VISITS IMPHAL AIRFIELD (11/11/1944) (1944)

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

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

 

THE RAF AT WORK UNDER MONSOON CONDITIONS AT IMPHAL,... (1944)

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

Shot of ...

 

TIDDIM OPERATIONS BY 5TH INDIAN DIVISION (13/10/1944) (1944)

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

 

TIDDIM VILLAGE OCCUPIED BY 5TH INDIAN DIVISION (20/10/1944) (1944)

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

General view of ...

 

UNVEILING OF THE MEMORIAL TO BRITISH AND GURKHA TROOPS... (1944)

Two months after the end of the Battle of Kohima a memorial is unveiled by Lieutenant-General Stopford commander ...

 

US GENERAL OLD DISCUSSES PLANS AT HQ TROOP CARRIER... (1944)

United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop ...

 

VARIOUS SCENES FROM 2ND DIVISION, 5TH INDIAN DIVISION,... (1944)

Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way ...

 

VARIOUS SCENES OF 5TH INDIAN DIVISION AT KALEMYO (18/11/1944) (1944)

Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and ...

 

VISIT OF ALLIED AIR COMMANDER, SIR RICHARD PEIRSE,... (1944)

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

 

VISIT OF THE VICEROY OF INDIA TO RAF SQUADRONS AT AGARTALA... (1944)

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

 

VULTEE VENGEANCE DIVEBOMBERS OPERATED BY INDIAN AIR... (1944)

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

 

WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 153 (10/4/1944) (1944) enhanced entry

I. 'INDIA.' An unidentified merchant ship is berthed in Calcutta Docks having arrived with a consignment of Australian wheat in ...

 

WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 161 (5/6/1944) (1944) enhanced entry

I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army M3 Stuart light tanks and soft-skinned vehicles drive along a jungle track during the fighting ...

 

WAVELL'S TOUR - VISIT TO IMPHAL (6/8/1944) (1944)

Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward ...

WELFARE WITH ITS FINGER OUT (2/1944)

WELFARE WITH ITS FINGER OUT (2/1944) (1944)has video enhanced entry

Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 152 (1943)

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA COAST DEFENCE PRESENTING SEAFIRES LIGHTER MOMENTS IN THE DESERT ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 177 (1943)

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: The QUEEN HONOURS A.T.S. DIAMOND JUBILEE OF BOYS' BRIGADE ITALY LORD ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 179 (1943)

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: FIFTH ARMY ACROSS THE VOLTURNO PERSONALITIES: LORD LINLITHGOW, LORD LOUIS, MR.EDEN ...

 

INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWS NO 19 (1943-06-16) (1943) enhanced entry

I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN FRONT - Pictures of His Excellency The viceroy, Lord Linlithgow's flying visit to the ...

 

INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWS NO 9 (1943-02) (1943) enhanced entry

I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.

I. ...

 

INVINCIBLE? (1943)

An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British ...

 

AIJAL ROAD (1942)

Amateur film of the construction of a road in Assam from Ledo to Assam by the Indian Tea Association.

Pan over ...

 

BEHIND THE WINGS (1942)

Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.

The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 100 (COLONIAL VERSION) (1942)

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 116 (1942)

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BIGGEST CONVOY REACHES INDIA THE MASTER PLAN THE DAY SHIFT TAKE OVER ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 126 (1942)

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 127 (COLONIAL VERSION) (1942)

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES ...

 

BRITISH NEWS NO. 94 (COLONIAL VERSION) (1942)

For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. ...

 

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS ISSUE 1173 (1942) enhanced entry

British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.

Opening titles ...

 

CHIANG KAI-SHEK IN INDIA (1942)

Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

The film opens by giving a brief background to the ...

 

INDIA IN CRISIS (Year 8 No 1) (1942) enhanced entry

Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while ...

 

INDIANS IN ACTION (1942)

A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the ...

 

MARCH OF TIME 8TH YEAR NO. 1 (1942)

The situation in India in 1942.

Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in ...

 

MARCH OF TIME 8TH YEAR NO. 2 (1942) enhanced entry

The Indian contribution to the war effort.

Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, ...

 

the BATTLE FOR FREEDOM (1942) enhanced entry

The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...

 

UNIVERSAL NEWS (1942) enhanced entry

I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...