BEACH ASSAULT, MALTA 1942
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Demonstrations by assault party with bayonets and hand grenades at Ghajn Tuffieha Bay, Malta. Bren gun bullets hitting the water.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).
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BEER AT ITS BEST 1955
... industry through subsidies or tariff protection.The immediate post-war period saw the introduction of the ‘ ... and large-scale domestic production within post-war colonial Nigeria.
The ...
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... evacuation schemes initiated during the war. Operation Pied Piper, from 1September ... of a British retreat, as yet unaffected by the War. Central to this image are the ... of Children During the Second World War’, Twentieth Century British History ... -
... its prestige value and logistical connections, and was also the site of a large Japanese supply dump.
The Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive holds a number of Richard Sharp's recordings, including General Slim's broadcast from Mandalay. See related ...
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BETTER HOMES 1948
... Builds a Dam (1944), recognised a commonality amongst post-war instructional films produced by the Colonial Film Unit. Smyth ... ‘The Colonial Film Unit During the Second World War’, paper delivered at ASA (UK), University of Kent, 17-19 ... -
BHOWANI JUNCTION 1956
... costs for their “cast of thousands” that is prominently featured on all of the advertisements.After World War II the British government established a series of agreements to help bolster the British film industry. These ...
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BIKANER 1934
... 1902; was the only non-Anglo member of the British War Cabinet in World War I; and represented India at the Imperial War Conference in 1917. His commitment to the British raj was displayed by the adoption of their favoured Indo-Saracenic style for ... -
ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess Beatrix.
Footage of the parade ...
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BLACK MAJESTY 1937
... . On to Rei Bouba. The expedition is greeted by a mounted escort and taken to the palace of King Lamido Bouba Jamaha ? (before World War One Rei Bouba was German, then on Aug 5 1914 sided with alliance so was given autonomy.) Peggy and Larry meet the King ... -
BLACK TENT 1956
... ;A second strand, British films about contemporary colonial wars, encompasses films such as The Planter’s Wife ... ;There’ll Always be an England’: Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration, 1948-68’, Journal of British ... -
ACTUALITY. Boer war. Single shot of the Bloemfontein annexation ceremony on May 28th 1900.
Military parade in the market square at Bloemfontein at which General Pretyman named the Orange River Colony (formerly the Orange Free State) on behalf of ...
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