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A newsreel compilation picture ("presented to the Prime Minister") of Churchill's visit to Washington and Ottawa in December '41 - January '42.

WSC crosses the Atlantic on HMS Duke of York, accompanied by Chiefs of ...

I. Tracking shots of numerous captured 5cm Pak 38 anti-tank guns lined up a desert location (Libya or Tunisia). Also visible are a heavier gun - possibly a 7.62cm Pak 36(r) - and a light artillery piece. Parts of guns and mortar bipods (without their ...

Film of action at Milne Bay, which was an almost completely Australian operation and one that dealt a blow to Japanese strategy.

The film begins by showing ships pouring in supplies. Inland are the first ...

Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.

The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...

Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks on wall stopped at 4.45. Chinese wear protection i.e. pieces of rag over mouths. Panning shot - wreckage of large ...

START 00:00:00 Scenes at Scapa Flow filmed on 4 March 1941: a port side profile of the battleship HMS Nelson in a dark grey paint scheme used by the Home Fleet on its large warships at this time in the war; she carries two Unrifled Projector (U/P) ...

I. "Three Phases of the World At War": Scenes of the Philippine Islands include damage on Luzon.

II. "Defence of the Caribbean": Interceptor Command of the Caribbean Air Force cooperates with the US Navy in defending the Panama Canal Zone, ...

I. "Pacific Battlefront": A tribute to the endurance of Australian troops engaged in jungle warfare in New Guinea, and to the bushboys who assist them.

II. "Further Advances in New Guinea": Australians in Papua get support from the Royal ...

A commercial for Co-op tea in the guise of a documentary about tea production.

The film shows how tea is grown, picked and selected in Ceylon, and how in wartime it has to be shipped by convoy. A women making a pot ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Royal Engineer Lieutenant Archibald ("Archie") Jack of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners records local scenes and local activities in Northern India in areas marked by ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Alaric Rowntree while serving as Director of Communal Feeding for the Ministry of Food (and Colonial Office) in Malta during the critical period from July to December 1942, and later shown to ministers and officials ...

Burmese people sitting on floor on board a boat. A Buddhist monk reads a newspaper. Burmese children (in Western clothes). Birds flying over the Irrawaddy River. women look out over the side of the boat. ...

Aerial shots, mills and river, serial shots, airfield, pagoda, platations. Landing airfield, Austor taxiing, wreckage of plant. Cu Burma rifles shoulder flashes troops through jungle. Kachin Levies ...

Men handling bombs. Loading onto Aircraft. Setting fuses. Loading 0.50-inch machine gun ammunition into wing magazines. Working on engine. Cu guns in wings, an armourer checks the chambers. leaning wing ...

"Hurricanes find new way to Suez."

"Coloured boys supervised by white men" construct an airfield in the jungle near a West African port (name censored). Film shows felling of trees, screening of soil, rolling, tar- ...

"Lowell Thomas Magic Carpet of Movietone" "The Thaw Asiatic Expedition in Cinecolor" A visit to glittering Mysore. The Thaw's host, the Maharaja of Mysore, is shown around the expedition tour vehicles. Krishnaraja Sagar dam. ...

A feature film made by the Japanese, using the appropriated facilities of the Hong Kong film industry to illustrate the Japanese attack on Hong Kong. A propaganda film which revolves around the Japanese troops' ...

START 00:00:00 At sea in the western Mediterranean with Force H, circa 10 - 13 November 1941: three men are transferred from foc'sle of HMS Laforey to the aircraft carrier HMS Argus in a cargo net as the destroyer steams at slow speed along the much ...

I. 'GIBRALTAR.' The Duke of Gloucester and Lord Gort (C-in-C Gibraltar) on a tour of the defences of "Britain's stronghold at the gateway to the Mediterranean". Panoramic views of the Rock of Gibraltar from the sea with Merchant shipping using the ...

I. 'SOUTH AFRICA.' Motorcycle outriders lead a parade of South African infantry armed with Lee-Enfield .303-in Mk III rifles. The parade is watched by a large number of civilian onlookers. The commentary states following a call from General Smuts, ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' An introduction to some of the latest types of United States aircraft arriving disassembled in crates as part of the Anglo-American lend-lease scheme. Crated aircraft parts are towed into an assembly area. Anti-corrosion paint ...

I. 'AUSTRALIA.' Imperial Australian forces led by a brass band march past crowds of civilian onlookers along a street in central Melbourne. The commentary states that Australia is in the war "up to the hilt" over scenes of parading Bren gun carriers ...

I. 'HMS DUKE OF YORK.' The commentary points out that the battleship HMS Duke of York (King George V Class) was the ship which took Churchill on his recent visit to the United States. HMS Duke of York is visible on the horizon with smoke from her ...