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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 ...
India.
A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP ...
Mules on Mount Olympus. Scottish soldiers eating at Othello's Tower at Famagusta, Cyprus. Soldiers cheering. Local farmers employing traditional farming ...
A tribute to the Indian troops who had fought in the Libyan campaign.
Over film of Indian troops marching ...
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training ...
A picture of the contribution made to Britain's war effort by people from Newfoundland.
The film, which has throughout ...
The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their ...
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). ...
Kenya's first two years of war.
Opens with establishing shots - Mount Kenya, wild-life, black schoolchildren, white settlers; maps ...
Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.
Footage of India's coastline is used as ...
Documentary on life in the Indian Air Force (IAF) culminates with a plea to Indian audience for more ...
(Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving ...