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Singapore joined independent Malaysia in 1963. It seceded in 1965 and is now the Republic of Singapore.
Shot on 23 October 1945: view of Rempang Island from the sea. View of the Japanese naval HQ ship, the ...
At the RAF's 81 Mobile Field Hospital, operating at Seletar in Singapore, both British servicemen and Japanese prisoners ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of ...
Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong ...
Lieutenant-General Raymond Wheeler US Army, is invested as an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), while ...
Allied prisoners of war, liberated from Japanese captivity, are seen at Kallang airfield, Singapore.
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de ...
In Singapore an Armistice Day parade is held for the first time since the end of the Japanese ...
Scenes from a commemorative parade and wreath laying at the Cenotaph in Singapore on Armistice Day, 1945.
Troops on ...
Capture of various animals in the Malay jungle. Suggested by the book by Frank Buck and Edward Anthony.
The goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924.
The ...
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 INTRODUCING "THE VAMPIRE" THE BELSEN TRIAL DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR SEE ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include THE OCCUPATION OF TOKYO AND HONG KONG JAPANESE SURRENDER OF HONG KONG ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: R.A.F. RESCUE BOATS AT WORK WITH THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN ABYSSINIA ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AFTER THE BATTLE OF MATAPAN BY CONVOY TO GIBRALTAR BATTLE FOR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GIBRALTAR DEFENCES HIS MAJESTY SEES PARATROOPERS SINKING OF 'BISMARK' NEW FIGHT FIGHTER OUR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:
WINGS OVER SINGAPORE NAVY REPELS ATTACK ON CONVOY INDIAN TRAINEES IN BRITAIN FALL OF ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ALL EYES ON SINGAPORE LORD LOUIS TAKES COMMAND HOP HARVEST IN BRITAIN PRIME ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: SINGAPORE REINFORCED DUTCH LAW COURT TO SIT IN LONDON SHOOTING WAR NEAR FOR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. CAPTURES NAZI SHIP SAILING UNDER AMERICAN COLOURS AVIATION 2ND EAGLE SQUADRON AND ...
Residents of a Cheshire Home in Singapore shown in various activities, especially crafts, e.g., toy-making.
ACTUALITY. Procession to the City Hall in Singapopre, the arrival of the Governor and the Duchess, inspection of the guard ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. The gathering of coconuts and transport by river; the preparation of copra and the sale of coconut oil.
Personal amateur film filmed mainly in Singapore, with intertitles.
"Cree Hall - Singapore" a man plays with a cat and dog ...
The tour of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to India, Pakistan, Sarawak, Singapore, North Borneo, Hong Kong, the Solomon, Gilbert ...
ACTUALITY. A view from above of native boys diving for coins from their boats in Singapore harbour and climbing back ...
She inspects the RAF Malay regiment, opens a Tuberculosis clinic, receives hon. Freedom if city, visits George VI dockyard, military ...
PROPAGANDA. A film on the National Government's aims to boost Britain's trade with the Empire: Though nerve-centre of the Empire, ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Singapore, are evacuated by air from Kallang airport.
Group ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity in Changi Jail, Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ship.
Walking ...
Freed Allied prisoners of war, released from Japanese captivity at Changi Jail in Singapore, are evacuated by hospital ...
At Changi Jail, Singapore, three convicted Japanese war criminals are hanged.
A hooded Japanese prisoner, probably Sergeant-Major Nobuo Iijima ...
Shot from beneath the gallows in the courtyard ...
Footage shot with live sound at Changi Jail, Singapore, showing three convicted Japanese war criminals being hanged.
Three shots, ...
A fire blazes at the petrol dump of Kallang Airport, Singapore, and firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
Large ...
Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of ...
Party of Japanese medical orderlies wearing gauze face masks. Two Japanese with notebooks; one of them is making notes. Medics ...
I. "SIR SHENTON THOMAS REUNITED WITH WIFE AFTER 3 AND A 1/2 YEARS OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT". At Calcutta airport, Sir ...
I. "THE CABINET MISSION ARRIVES IN INDIA". The Cabinet Mission arrive to try and break the political deadlock in India. ...
Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to ...
Before the formal Japanese surrender ceremony in Singapore, surrendered Japanese troops clean up the city while freed Allied ...
On the eve of the Japanese surrender in South East Asia, interned Japanese personnel are put to work ...
With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour ...