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    OIL HARBOUR: ADEN 1955 enhanced entry

    ... part, this conspicuous absence reflects an increasing post-war shift of emphasis in the rhetoric of British industrial achievement, ... , James Pier, Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain (London: British Film Institute, 2010).

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    THEY STAND READY 1955

    ... and a Fleet Auxiliary oiler), Second World War library shots of an Indomitable Class fleet ... wall, yet more 'square-bashing', a tug o' war with a birch tree in which the ... -to-air shot of clouds. Second World War (?) library footage showing paratroopers jumping ...
     
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    LAND OF THE HORNBILL 1955

    ... of poor peasants and fishermen and that its first white Rajah (Sir James Brooke) arrived there in 1839. The hornbill, which is regarded as a war god. The art and tradition of the colony; the Dyaks, who number forty per cent of the population. The film ...
     
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    RUBBER FROM MALAYA 1955

    ... in the fields, the clone being grafted on and the production of sheet rubber. The welfare of the workers. The film ends on a gloomy note: "since the end of the Korean war prices have fallen and so have wages. There is a growing fear of employment".

     
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    MALAYAN EMERGENCY, GERMANY AND D-DAY BEACHES 1955

    ... scenes in Italy, then bus tour of East Berlin (in 1955) with semi-clandestine film of sites, including Soviet War Memorial, communist red banners on public buildings and statue of Stalin, Brandenburg Gate, then flower float musical procession through ...
     
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    Morrison Collection: 12: Various locations, 1950s 1955

    ... Station at Jekko Falls, and afterwards worked for ATMN (Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria). Mr. Morrison left Nigeria in 1939 after the outbreak of the Second World War. Films donated by Mrs. Lang Brown, who features in several reels as a small child.

     
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    Wicksteed Collection: 1: Sea Voyage to England on the 'Canton'. 1955

    ... by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, & was imprisoned at Lintang Internment Camp, Kuching, Sarawak. After the war he served as a customs officer, District Officer, & then joined the secretariat in Jesseleton before becoming Resident in various ...
     
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    DUNLOP IN MALAYA 1955 enhanced entry

    ... within Malaya. This is undoubtedly a trope within post-war sponsored documentaries (e.g. Achievement in Africa, 1960) with ... the industry to this audience. It presents a model of post-war imperialism, of social development and technological &lsquo ...
     
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    DAY IN NAIROBI 1955 enhanced entry

    ... on 16mm for schools. The couple filmed ‘all over the world’, recording the ‘survival of Europe after the war’, producing films for the British Admiralty, as well as an annual series of propaganda films for the Government ( ...
     
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    GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER VISITS 848 SQUADRON 1955

    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB

    During General Sir Gerald Templer's farewell tour of RAF Station, Kuala Lumpur, he visits 848 Squadron and says a few words to the assembled officers.

    General Templer and his ...

     
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    VISIT OF MILITARY GOVERNOR ALGECIRAS TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, HOME FLEET 1955

    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    The visit of the Military Governor Algeciras to Admiral Sir Michael Denny, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet.

    Spanish minesweeper Guadalorce enters Gibraltar Naval Harbour accompanied by two ...

     
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    ADMIRAL SIR GUY GRANTHAM HOLDS FIRST AREA COMMANDERS' MEETING AT HAF MEDITERRANEAN 1955

    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

    Admiral Sir Guy Grantham (Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Mediterranean) holds his first Area Commanders' meeting at HAFMED, Malta.

    Various Area Commanders and other Chiefs of Staff arrive, ...