Short film shot by an Indian cameraman ...
Short film shot by an Indian cameraman ...
Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, on duty in Malaya: girls operating switchboard, office workers, girls playing tennis, relaxing in sitting room and attending a lecture on Malayan geography.
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...
Concerted attacks by the RAF and British Army on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma are seen both from the air and from the ground.
Airborne view ...
A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on Kennedy Peak, Burma, by 5th Indian ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and scenes after its capture.
Footage taken ...
As troops of 2nd Division advance towards Ywathitgyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, field and medium artillery provide support, along with heavy ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck, ...
Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects ...
On a wet day in Rangoon, capital of Burma, a pro-independence rally sees Aung San address a large crowd at the Thein Byu football ground.
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Pilots of an Artillery Air Observation Post (AOP) Squadron, attached to 26th Indian Division, practice landing in confined areas on Ramree Island, Burma ...
The Australian and New Zealand contingents to the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II are inspected by C-in-C Mediterranean.
Admiral Mountbatten visits HMAS Sydney in Grand Harbour, Malta; ...
CINEMAGAZINE. New Guinea natives follow noble calling. Archery proves great sport for war veterans. Fine freighter completed in Brisbane yards. Melbourne girl completes her own little theatre.
CINEMAGAZINE. Aborigines are forte of self-taught sculptor. Child welfare centre is boon in New Guinea. Plastic bowls show they run true to form. The history of duelling through the ages.
CINEMAGAZINE. Architectural modelling at Sydney University. Tasmanian re-enactment of the Federal Council of Australia. Pottery making in Western Australia. Native school teachers in New Guinea.
Australian soldiers of 1st Parachute Battalion lay on a Christmas party for children, both local and from a nearby camp of freed Dutch internees, in ...
Current affairs report examines Britain's efforts to contain Indonesian guerrilla activity in Borneo and Sarawak (Malaysia), where 1st Battalion 7th Gurkhas are seen on patrol and are interviewed, and raises ...
An edition of Fox Movietone News, Australian ...
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly English tutor who meet over afternoon tea. Includes actual newsreels of court life discovered in the archives of the Raj ...
Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
A ground crewman hand cranks an ...
Expert advice given to villagers to plant and grow vegetables for better yield and produce. Very similar to IT PAYS TO SPRAY.
(157A) October 1938: At the beginning of a new Hebrew year the first 'legal' immigrants arrive at the newly constructed port of Tel Aviv from SS Polonia.
(182A) June 1939: After the publication of the British Government's White Paper on ...