INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

COMPANY OF FIVEGreat Britain

DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour Exchange.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.

An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese positions as support for ...

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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 ...

WORLD CINEMAIndia

Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.

Great Britain

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 ...

Great Britain

Documentary about the Ascension Island and its wildlife, and how the latter has adapted since the Island became a military base.

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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 ...

FALKLANDS CONFLICTGB

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 ...

FALKLANDS CONFLICTGB

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 ...

PARADEGreat Britain

Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.

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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 ...

Great Britain

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 ...

SOUTH BANK SHOW

Looks at the Asian Arts Festival in Hong Kong which features the practice of traditional theatrical, musical and dance acts.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

African soldiers, ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

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 ...

Great Britain

Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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. ...

Great Britain

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 ...