MATTHEW NATHAN AMATEUR FILM COLLECTIONGB

Amateur film showing some aspects of life in pre-Second World War Burma. Inter-titles introduce most scenes.

Rangoon. The Shwe Dagon Pagoda. People around the Pagoda. A notice ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Scenes from a refugee camp at Rangiya (Rangyia) in Assam, India.

Burmese civilians, including men, women and children, cross frame from right to ...

... It is conquering the savage Japanese" and reporting his promise that 'his troops would help the local people to repair their war scarred town' and 'would not interfere with their peaceful life'.

No slates, date from dopesheet. In his memoir, 'Defeat ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Scenes of Burmese civilian life in a large village in the Arakan region of Burma, five miles from Kindaunggyi, on the banks of the Tanlwe Chaung (river ...

... thrown from out of frame; he gets out of the jeep carrying a Vinten Normandy cine camera.

Notes

The Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive holds an interview with the cameraman of this piece. See related items.

The Burmese Water Festival, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian nationalists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

In Surabaya a large pall of smoke hangs over a burning kampong or village. Two Chinese civilians approach carrying their belongings; the leading man carries a small Chinese flag to ...

... -1926 – the year that this Apapa entered service, the Apapa 1 having been sunk in the First World War). Six of the reels, with a running time of around an hour, are titled Africa Dances, and compose a intertitled film which ...

... police the border between Sierra Leone and Liberia, and eventually hired local proxies through whom a ‘small-scale guerrilla war’ along the Liberian border was waged against smugglers (Smillie et. al., op. cit., 39-40). In the light ...

... complain that the British were abandoning an important Cold War duty by concluding commitments east of Suez. Dean Rusk, ... the possibility that Britain might end up embroiled in an American war, in the context of decolonisation, membership of the group was ...

... flight in Kota Belud. Then a sequence of a Bajau mounted escort for the visit of John Profumo, then Secretary of State for War, and General Hull to British North Borneo. The rest of the film is a mixture of personal holiday film in mountains and the donor ...

... become Jammu and Kashmir. After the Sikh Empire’s defeat by the British East India Company in the Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-6, Gulab successfully obtained first recognition as an independent ruler over vast tracts of land which included the vale of ...