As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...
As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...
British troops of ...
A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines and a local Chinese team.
General Festing, ...
I. The departing High Commissioner, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, reviews the Naval task force supporting the British withdrawal. He is accompanied by Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, C-in-C Middle East Command, who is to return ...
In Singapore on New Year's Day 1946, a treaty is concluded between Australia, Britain and Siam (Thailand), formally ending hostilities and allowing ...
(Reel 1) Hurricane Mk Is of 111 Squadron at Northolt, 1939-1940. Fighter pilots practise air to air wireless communication by riding bicycles, fitted with radio sets in front of handle bars, across tarmac at Northolt. Experiment/training is watched ...
Hong Kong and port seen through the eyes of a typical New Yorker.
The recruitment, training, and passing out parade at the Southern Police College in Nigeria.
Annual ceremony of dancing to mark male and female circumcision ceremonies of the Bugusi-Sebei tribe in Uganda. The ceremonies lasted about three days. Footage includes the circumcision, dancing tribes in elaborate costumes, face painting ...
Depicts the building and opening of the London Missionary Society Hospital, Mbereshi, North Rhodesia. Also includes a survey of the work of the hospital and medical work carried out in the district, including the dispensary at Kazembe. LMS mission ...
Reel 1: A small motor launch draws alongside a troopship. A Major climbs a staircase up to the deck followed by a Major-General. Talking to a Military Policeman. The general is ...
Education for rural children in Northern Rhodesia, both white and black.
A travelogue advertising the touristic delights of Bulawayo and district. It includes shots of landscapes in Rhodesia, big game, fishing, the Kariba Dam, and Victoria Falls. There are aerial shots of Bulawayo, along with planes, trains, hotels, ...
Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...
Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.
Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...
Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.
Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed ...
High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Miles Arrindell of the Second Battalion Suffolk Regiment records scenes during the Battle of Imphal, including a Japanese prisoner-of-war and the capture of the Isaac feature (June 1944), and later (after transfer to ...
The Burma Rifles presenting arms. A brief shot of two naval officers and sailor. The Burmese Naval Reserves? on parade. Burmese Army? on parade (red shoulder flash with white five-point star). Close-up on ' ...
At the Burma Athletic Association in Rangoon, capital of Burma, an athletic meeting is held and teams from various military formations compete for the ...
Funeral of Sawbwa (ruler) of Hsipaw state, in the Northern Shan States of Burma, with parade by Gurkha Battalion (8th ?) who fire volley over coffin. Also scenes of gambling, presumably ...
A DC3/C47 taking off from an airstrip and landing again. A group of Bhuddist monks (sayadaws).
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
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Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.
Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at ...
This amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson appears to be reconstructed scenes of BNA exercises in the jungle.
Two Burmese soldiers, one plays the bugle. Burma National Army ( ...