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Malaya achieved independence as Malaysia in 1957.
Films depicting Straits Settlements territories (with the exception of Singapore) are included under Malaya.
'T for Tommy', a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron tasked with delivering rice to Kuantan ...
Malayan Government propaganda.
The film covers the first Malayan general elections, emphasising popular support for Tunku Abdul Rahman and ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Paddy O'Neill of the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army, while attached to the Federated Malay ...
Film showing the resettlement of Chinese squatters from the edge of the Malayan jungle, away from the Communist ...
A general recruiting film for the services which "will all be regulars by the end of 1962".
Opening scenes ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of ...
"This C.O.I film is a Crown Film Unit Production of vital interest to all peace-loving peoples today, for the "Alien ...
DRAMA. Set in Malaya. Professor Gilbert Olives and his wife Marion are in Malaya so that he can develop an ...
Part 1, by Sergeant Clark: Gent steps down from an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft and is greeted. He talks ...
Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, on duty in Malaya: girls operating switchboard, office workers, girls playing tennis, relaxing in ...
Amateur. People on beach. Locals fishing.
Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya.
Bathing in sea at night, on guard with Mosquito nets over faces; digging trench, ...
Home movie footage of the Wicket family of Penarth Estate rubber plantation Enggor, Cameron Highlands of Malaya.
Home movie footage of the European market in Brastagi, Malaya.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: BRITISH SOLDIER IN PALESTINE BRITISH AIRCRAFT DISPLAY 'AIRES' ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA VICTORY ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:
MR MENZIES ON EVE OF SAILING REVIEWS WAR SITUATION ANZACS IN THE NEWS FROM ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. CAPTURES NAZI SHIP SAILING UNDER AMERICAN COLOURS AVIATION 2ND EAGLE SQUADRON AND ...
Messages home from British Forces stationed in Malaya
From the port of London to Africa, India, Malaya, British New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and back again ...
Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the ...
Malay Regiment, August 1936. Presentation of Swords of Honour to Malay Officers in Kuala Lumpur.
A young girl suffering from yaws, a tropical bacterial infection, also known as polypapilloma tropicum. Close-up of the girl. A ...
With the surrender of Japan, the guerilla Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) is disbanded.
A saluting base in Kuala ...
With the surrender of Japan, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) is disbanded.
Civilian procession with banners, crowd and ...
Duchess greeted by Royal Family at London Airport on return from Malaya. Flashback to highlights of tour which included Borneo, ...
Film about the Dunlop Rubber Co's worldwide activities, particularly in its 13 rubber estates in Malacca. The film looks at ...
PROPAGANDA. A film on the National Government's aims to boost Britain's trade with the Empire: Though nerve-centre of the Empire, ...
A general review of Malaya, which seems to be a double battleground, containing a fight against Communism and a struggle ...
The ethnic groups, ceremonies and industries of Malaya.
Rl. 1. BBFC certificate (11). Credits and main title "FIVE FACES". "A film ...
Land clearance for a rubber plantation.
I. "THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Karachi Contact Club, Pola Festival, Nagpur - Police Investiture". Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sind, ...
A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the ...
162 members of the Kempeitai, the Japanese secret police, are jailed at Taiping in Perak, Malaya.
Column of Japanese ...
Onboard the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Nelson Japanese officers surrender the port and city of Penang, Malaya ...
At the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the commander of Japanese 29th Army (Lieutenant-General Ishiguro) surrenders to ...
Amateur film. A journey from Sumatra via Java, Malaya, Sarawak, Java and Sabah to Malaya.
Black and white. Starts with a ...
The process of planning, constructing and operating a jungle fort (Fort Dixon) in the jungles of Pahang.
Over aerial ...
Home movie footage of the reception.
Various aspects of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaya.
Notes
Remarks: cataloguing incomplete.
In Kuantan, Malaya, the Chinese community celebrates the Double Tenth festival for the first time since the Japanese ...
Following the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron, delivering rice to the people ...
Visit by Lady Limerick to BRC, , Penang, Malaya 1953.
Shot of Union flag; outside gathering: chairs lined up/women in RC ...
Wide shot showing Lieutenant-General Roberts' staff car arriving outside the Suleiman Building in Kuala Lumpur. He meets the officer commanding. ...