Scenes in and around Diyatalawa camp extension where servicemen enjoy R&R.
Opening shots around Craighton Village - heavy rain clouds hang over the surrounding mountains. ...
Scenes in and around Diyatalawa camp extension where servicemen enjoy R&R.
Opening shots around Craighton Village - heavy rain clouds hang over the surrounding mountains. ...
I. Landing at Surabaya of 49th Indian Brigade, 25 October, 1945. LS broad on the starboard quarter of the Japanese torpedo boat Kiji at sea. Cameraship and companion pass through line of blockships, passing ...
Street scenes - British naval ratings and warrant officers with a few soldiers shop in a street market. Sequence showing a Chinese sign painter at work - when he notices the camera he starts to get down hastily ...
Rear-Admiral Servaes and Captain Dick of HMS Belfast attend a service of thanksgiving in cathedral at Shanghai. The Admiral then visits the British internees at the Sacred Heart Hospital - a man demonstrates a ...
I. Sequence showing Kowloon power station, and lines of coolie women carrying logs to the operative boiler. HA.LS onto a second power station in a built up area - Taikoo (?)
II. Miscellaneous scenes in ...
I. Sequence shot from a Ruler Class escort carrier entering Hong Kong bay - possibly HMS Smiter.
II. HMS Duke of York enters Sydney harbour. HA onto focsle while at sea - men are laid out untidily, ...
HA.LS sequence shot from Government House as the Allied representatives file out onto the lawn for photographs after the Japanese surrender.
(i) HA views into the garden of ...
RIN depot ship lies at mooring buoy in estuary with Fairmile B MLs alongside to port and starboard. Cut to interior CUs of flotilla briefing - a Lieutenant-Commander pricks a chart while his junior captains ...
Opening shot of board bearing the legend HMIS "SITA", RIN HOLDING DEPOT and attended by two sentries. View across sun-baked lawn to an elegant colonnaded building. Vehicle pound contains 8 cwt 4x4 CMP ...
West African troops disembark from the cameraship onto a rubble strewn quayside. Indian dock labourers handle cargo slings from unloading merchantman and transfer crates onto a roller conveyor which runs into a ...
Shipping in anchorage at Trincomalee taken from a motor launch and an aeroplane.
Opening sequence shot from launch in main anchorage - HMS London is present, fitted with a ...
I. The two American battleships approach the harbour. USS California (44) enters first through gap in the seaward defences - a boom defence vessel stand by to close the gap after the passage of the two ships. ...