FALKLANDS CONFLICTGB

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 ...

PARADEGreat Britain

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

FALKLANDS CONFLICTGB

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 ...