Offcuts? of amateur film of oilfields in Burma (possibly the Yenangyaung oilfields?).

Brief shot of a British man. Oil wells, some close-ups of the machinery.

Notes ...

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 ' ...

An Indian soldier looking through a range finder. A soldier with binoculars in the bush. The two soldiers converse. Another soldier talks into a telephone/radio handset. Scenes of the gunners setting sites, ...

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 ...

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten takes the salute of the ...

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the representative ...

Amateur film of the birds and wildlife at the Pidaung Wildlife Sanctuary, Myitkyina, Kachin State, Burma.

A sign for Pidaung railway station (in Roman and Burmese script). ...

Amateur film of scenes in a Burmese village (after an air-raid attack?) reconstructed by Colonel Hodgkinson.

An ox-drawn cart passes two huts, two women stand outside one ...

Offcuts from amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma. Most of the scenes are reconstructions (with the exception of the market scene).

"The Enemy" written in English ...

(Black & White) Shot from a train window along carriages. People hanging out of windows (most waving small pieces of white cloth). Shots of a steep drop to the valley below. The train winds along a hillside track, and ...

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 ...

Fragment only. Sergeant George Roland ("Roly") Plews, standing beside Gunner Burnell, sends a message home from India to his wife Elsie and his mother in Newcastle, saying he is healthy and has just travelled one thousand miles to record his greeting ...

Messages home from British Army personnel stationed in Burma to their loved ones in the Leicester area. Filmed in a tented field, a group of soldiers take it in turn to present a personal message to their family and friends in England. One man holds ...

I. a. HMS Illustrious and King George V in Sydney Harbour are a "renewed reminder of Britain's naval might. Ornamental guncap sovereigns are fitted to the guns of the latter ship. A Hindu Midshipman on board "gives the Empire touch." Close up ...

I. "Victoria: Land Army girls supply much of Melbourne's food." Girls on horseback and picking onions and peaches.

II. "Sydney: 'Rats of Tobruk' commemorate historic siege." Wreaths are laid at the Cenotaph before a flashback recalls the ...

I. "Britain's fastest plane." View of the Gloster Meteor jet on the ground and in flight.

II. "Burma liberated. British take Rangoon!" (News of the Day). Troops come ashore during an amphibious attack; paratroops land; ...

Home movie shot during the embarkation and landings of Operation Zipper, September, 1945.

This film shows troopships assembling in an unidentified Indian port and Australian and Indian troops ...

Home movie shot during the landings of 'Operation Zipper' and in Malaya, September 1945, repeating much of the coverage of the first reel.

This reel begins on board the troopship having left one of ...

I. 'ALBANIA.' Albanian partisans using captured German equipment pose for photographs next to a sign that reads "Tiran" (Tirana). Panoramic footage shows Tirana and surrounding mountains. Three Royal Air Force (RAF) Handley Page Halifax bomber ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) stand on the deck of a small marine auxiliary vessel used to ferry RN personnel from ship to shore. WRNS members work on the decks of a small ferry vessel (MCI). Film footage ...

I. 'BRIDGE TO VICTORY.' Bailey Bridge panel sections are loaded onto a London Midlands Scottish (LMS) goods car. Footage taken in the interior of a steelworks manufacturing Bailey Bridge parts shows a female factory worker cutting steel girders with ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' HMS Indefatigable is launched down a Clydebank slipway as gathered crowds look on (completed May 5 1944). King George VI is given a tour of Indefatigable in Portsmouth prior to the ship sailing for the Far East. Accompanying ...

I. 'KING FAROUK VISITS BRITISH NAVY.' King Farouk of Egypt visits the Royal Navy (RN) escort carrier HMS Hunter and is shown talking to an unidentified RN Admiral. King Farouk is accompanied by a Royal Egyptian Navy (REN) Yuzbashi/Youzbashi ( ...

I. 'HOLLAND FREED.' Large numbers of Dutch civilians throng the centre of Rotterdam. Dutch civilians ride on Canadian soft-skinned vehicles. Civilians and nuns wave at the camera from the balcony of a Rotterdam hospital. Dutch civilians ride on ...