INDIAN RUBBER 1944
Natural rubber production in Travancore.
Natural rubber production in Travancore.
Drama-documentary about a Methodist mission founded in 1816 in Colombo, which helps young tea-plantation workers to learn new skills.
Reel One.
Scenes of a tea plantation. Women picking and sorting leaves, men weighing the ...
INTEREST. How cacao beans are cultivated in Trinidad.
Credits (26). Shot of the coastline of Trinidad, which lies off the north coast of South America (48). The cultivation of cacao, known in manufactured form as cocoa, is the ...
A young man leaving his village to work in copper mines of Northern Rhodesia; emphasis on contrasts between traditional and modern life.
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BURMA FRONT. COMMANDO LANDING FOR OPERATION AT MAUNGDAW JAP CRUISER DESTROYED BY BOMBING OUR UNITED EFFORTS FOR VICTORY EMPIRE CONFERENCE. DOMINION PREMIERS HERE FOR ...
Investigation of a series of murders of people who have paid into a fund to go to the one who survives.
Amateur film. `Once upon a time Africa was a land of Pagan enchantment': landscape; wildlife; village. `Civilisation': white man puts on a tie. `With manifold blessings': black man reads newspaper and looks at cinema poster of `Kay ...
Bud Flanagan plays an army private who gets concussion which results in three dreams: 1st - only white man in African district; 2nd - as a jockey at Ascot; 3rd - at Stage Door canteen.
A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.
The film opens with shots of traditional rural life - the landscape, cows, horses ploughing the fields, blossoming trees, sheep and finally ...
Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the significance of the architecture is emphasised in a commentary set above an Indian score. Seen in the film are paddy fields ...
Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.
An RAF Avro Lancaster, fitted with ...
Reel 1: Hawker Hurricanes airborne and taxiing at beach airstrip 'Hove' on the Arakan coast. Men undressing behind Hurricane (later shot from reverse angle). Hurricane being ...
Reel 1: Supermarine Spitfire with control tower in background. Hawker Hurricanes with propellors spinning before taxiing away past camera. Douglas Dakota aircraft being unloaded ...
Reel 1: Medium shot showing a tent, a look-out post up a tree, and two parked vehicles. One of the vehicles is an ambulance, the other the airstrip's crash tender. Looking up ...
Reel 1: Docks on the Hooghly River, Calcutta; river craft are unloaded. Two men stand on top of a lorry as it is hoisted onto the quayside by a crane. Barge being unloaded; a ...
Reel 1: Shot from Sunderland of repairs to float and refuelling from DUKW amphibious truck. Airmen hanging washing out on hull of Sunderland. Airborne shots of Brahmaputra River ...
United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop movements in support of beleaguered ...
Men of the Air Supply Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, packing a variety of material ready for delivery by parachute to troops in the field ...
RAF and Royal Navy salvage personnel attempt to recover a sunken Short Sunderland flying boat from the River Brahmaputra at Dibrugarh, Assam, India ...
Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near Lahore, India (Pakistan).
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Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
Dakota aircraft being ...
RAF aircrew are trained and tested in techniques of jungle survival at a jungle school at RAF Mahabaleshwar, in the Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India ...
RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft, operating from Chandina, seen resupplying troops with food and ammunition at Murdoch and Taung Bazaar.
Supplies ...
Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).
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