Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, ...
View from the steps of the Municipal Building as Gimson's car draws up and he gets out. Troops and spectators at the top of the steps; Gimson leaves and descends the steps. He ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India, arrives in the Arakan, Burma
Earl of Munster arriving at an RAF station where he is met by ...
DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour Exchange.
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of 100 Brigade, 20th Indian Divison at Myinmu, ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese positions as support for ...
RAMC training film made at 33 General Hospital, Hong Kong, in 1956.
This silent RAMC training film demonstrates the IPPR system for managing bulbar palsy which is a great advance over conventional 'Iron lung' methods ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
Construction of settlements on the island during the early 1960s.
Reel 1. The farm on Green mountain. Cows being moved within the farm. View of Sisters Peak from Mountain Road. West Indian steel band and dancing. Power House plant ...
Documentary about the Ascension Island and its wildlife, and how the latter has adapted since the Island became a military base.
Supply base scenes.
Continuing from the previous film (ADM 4824), this reel shows: extensive footage of rifle firing practice (by the SAS, apparently), assembling a mobile stove and cooking ...
Supply base scenes
The reel shows: arrival at Ascension Island by Nimrod, the setting up of and scenes in tented and temporary accommodation, troops cleaning weapons, the surrounding landscape, a ...
Supply activities at Ascension Island prior to the arrival of the task force en route to the Falklands.
The reel opens with a Sea King taking off at the air base at Ascension Island Aerial, and ...
Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.
Scenes around the base at Ascension Island with Falklands survivors (?).
Shots show Victor tanker aircraft parked, and a cargo ship anchored out to sea with a helicopter carrying supplies. A launch ...
DOCUMENTARY: Destroyer ship "H.M.S. Ashanti" makes her maiden voyage to Ashanti, the country after which she has been named.
Credits (31), waves, coastline of the Gold Coast, map of Africa showing Ashanti (62), markets (77) naval ...
Looks at the Asian Arts Festival in Hong Kong which features the practice of traditional theatrical, musical and dance acts.
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of African soldiers.
A British soldier stands by the roadside ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
African soldiers, ...
Tribeswoman with baby on her back, hut on top of steep hillside. Villagers (the Puroiks (Sulungs)? in Assam), cockerel, exotic flowers, leaf insect, green snake, cutting trees, building hut, fire, cutting logs, making ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. The remains of ammunition boxes lie around a still smoldering pile. ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating "Government Primary School". The boys of the school are roused at 6.30 a.m. by a bugle. The boys get up, wash, sweep ...