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Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.
Footage of India's coastline is used as ...
St. James's Park and its environs.
Opening LS view of St. James's Park, Piccadilly; traffic passing Marble Arch (92). Entrance to ...
A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.
An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the ...
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training ...
Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks.
The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal ...
Reel 1: Model of India, filmed at low angle with crawl of text; RAF Film Production Unit presents Life in ...
Film about the Axis air offensive against Malta.
British supply effort, upon which the island is dependent, is rendered ...
Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...
Set in Samoa, the film records the daily life of the protagonist as a ceremonial feast is prepared.
Fa'angase, a ...
India' s most popular instruments.
Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the ...
A street busy with pedestrians and animal-drawn carts is filmed from a static camera position. Many of the Indian men ...
Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.
After briefly outlining the ...
Colour documentary showing the migration of a Barotse tribe from Mongu to Limulunga during the seasonal floods.
The film opens with ...
The historic past, cultural and economic present and potential future of Palestine are all portrayed as (mainly implicit) ...
No main title. Men in military uniform disembarking from a small launch. A second launch from which the Prince and ...
Views of the C-in-C Middle East, Secretary General of the South Arabian League, Acting High Commissioner and various ...
ACTUALITY. Garden party given by Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India during the Calcutta `season'.
Main title (10). The garden party guests ...
Celebrations, attended by the Princess Royal, to mark the introduction of self-government in Western Nigeria in November 1957.
The film opens ...
Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.
'Alabi, a ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; ...
The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their ...
"One of the greatest tasks facing many countries today is to give back to the land its lost ...
The construction of a supply route through Burma's jungles and mountains by US troops under General Joseph Stilwell ...
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of ...