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A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George ...
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people ...
I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men ...
Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a ...
British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.
Opening titles ...
A commercial for Co-op tea in the guise of a documentary about tea production.
The film shows how tea ...
Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while ...
The Indian contribution to the war effort.
Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, ...
Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are ...
Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African ...
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...