1) Native troops (in Northern Nigeria?) parading at small barracks or guardpost; 2) Africans along a road; 3) river with waterfalls; 4) aerial shots of landscape; 5) white men erecting or standing at some kind of aerial; 6) teaparty in garden with ...

Documentary on life in the Indian Air Force (IAF) culminates with a plea to Indian audience for more and better planes for the IAF.

At the headquarters of the Indian Air Force in the Punjab, Hawker Harts of 1 ...

Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the story of a Bombay stockbroker who sells his shares and evacuates the city because of false rumours of aerial ...

Film showing the food contributions supplied to Britain by various colonies and dominions.

Although more land has been given over to food production, a significant contribution is made by the British Commonwealth of ...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth review a parade of RAF personnel in the main street of a small English town.

The unedited film shows the arrival of the King and Queen; they review the parade, pausing to talk to ...

The first two reels of a record of the Italian conquest of British Somaliland.

Maps illustrate the strategic importance of the area to Britain. Film of the desert terrain show the harsh conditions in which the ...

Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.

Footage of India's coastline is used as an introduction. Indian boys arriving to join the Navy are shown next, and the film chooses one of them to ...

(152A) September 1938 (and 1943): Building of Ein Hamifratz settlement. Preparation of houses to be transported to new settlement; loading equipment. Site before settlement (clock - 4.00 am). Jewish Settlement Police move up to site of new ...

(191A) October 1939: Harvest in Emek (Jezreel Valley). Alexander Zerd's son on horseback. Wheatfields - harvest by combine and by hand (guarded by armed horsemen). Bringing in the harvest. Jewish Settlement Police on guard. Harvest ...

(209C) February 1940: "War comes to Palestine", fitting gas masks for children in Tel Aviv.

(No newsreel no; Box 719-21) Spring 1940: "Civilians alert yourselves", ARP activities in Tel Aviv, building shelters.

(1B/second series) ...

(61A) November 1936: High Commissioner Wauchope at official opening ceremony of the Bennison Jewish Hospital near Sharon. Briefly in synch and then being taken around the brand new buildings. The Secretary of the Histradut (the Jewish Labour ...

START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least three giant sea turtles caught for food by the crew of HMS Kent and the waterfront at Male', the main population centre in the island group, ...

START 00:00:00 Colour shots filmed on 20 July 1940 showing HMS Queen of Bermuda, a 22,500-ton ex-Furness Bermuda passenger liner now serving as an armed merchant cruiser for the Royal Navy, during a refit at Durban, South Africa, as HMS Kent slowly ...

START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 17 September 1940 on the bridge of HMS Kent in the eastern Mediterranean showing Royal Navy officers wearing tropical uniforms and British steel helmets on duty in bright sunshine; among them is a US Navy officer, ...

START 00:00:00 Monochrome views of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon filmed in late 1939, showing a French light cruiser identified by Blundell as the Duguay-Trouin at anchor off Hong Kong harbour and the elderly Canadian Pacific passenger liner RMS ...

Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.

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Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file

Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.

Notes

Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file

Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.

Notes

Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file

Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya.

Bathing in sea at night, on guard with Mosquito nets over faces; digging trench, native boy climbs palm tree and throws down coconuts to troops; men get into patrol boat in river ...

REEL 1 - Views in Alexandria Harbour show battleships HMS Malaya and HMS Warspite, cruiser and French three-funnel troopship; Short Sunderlands and Fairey Sea Fox aircraft taking off; Mediterranean caique; Leander Class cruiser, various sailing ...

Amateur film shot by Guy Wickenden shows the public life and celebrations of the British in pre-1940 Cairo, voyage home to UK in 1937, arrival of the 2nd New Zealand Division in 1941 and Wickenden's young family evacuated ...

(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.

(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South America, stopping in Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Chile, through Panama Canal to Curaao, Trinidad and the ...

The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large open-air swimming pool and Aero-plages (sand-yachts) on the beach. Scenes from the Grandes Fte de Fleurs in Le Touquet including a group of young ...

Part I: Gurkhas in basic training; negotiating obstacle course; of fire and a ravine. Transporting lorry across river on raft; men cross river by swimming with rifles.

Part II: Transporting kit across river; by floating on sticks and by pushing ...

Amateur film, presumably shot by an officer of the East or South Lancashire Regiment serving in India, shows servants and colourful flowers in English-style garden ("Our Garden"), overlooking sea or lake. Opening sequence of tropical sunset may be ...

START 00:00:00 17:33 Under-exposed travelling shot from a train from Colombo to hill country south of Kandy. At Kadugannawa, a Sri Lankan railway porter pulls traveller's luggage etc on a large hand cart. The sign on the station platform for ...

START 00:00:00 Kodak Safety Film logo. A road sign in Arabic and in French for Alexandria. Date palms. Dark shots of a man making spaghetti over a hot plate in a shop.

00:02:08 Alexandria: Egyptian dockyard workers stand next to a tear in HMS ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Royal Engineer Lieutenant Archibald ("Archie") Jack of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners records mainly off-duty scenes of the Regiment while at Roorkee, United Provinces, ...

"Shamshun - Japanese on the frontier": Chinese porters pass to and fro along and beside railway tracks, partially blocked by sandbagging and barbed wire on British side of frontier. British officer walks forward to meet his Japanese Army counterpart ...

"Kai Yuan" (10 April 1940): camera focuses on tribespeople in distinctive costume trading with Chinese in the walled city. Long shot coverage over Chinese shoulders of the public execution by shooting of two alleged spies by soldiers of the Chinese ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records tourist and family scenes in Hong Kong, including busy street life, the harbour area, ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records harbour scenes in Singapore, tin dredging in Kuala Lumpur, open tin mine at Hong Fatt and car ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Chu Hsiung scenes during his tour of French Indo-China, China and ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Bombay street scenes, Colombo and wife and two sons on beach at Mount Lavinia, Ceylon, ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records his two young sons swimming in ship and shore pools, view across Hong Kong harbour, the ...

Reel 1: Long shots of village. Long shots of communal washing and drying area. Close up view of a dog. General view of a statue. General views of a town, people, traffic, streets and statues. General views of people in a public park. General views of ...

"The Thaw Asiatic Expedition presents INDIA. Produced by Lawrence Copley Thaw. In the new Magnacolor. Copyright MCMXL. Trans Asia, Inc. All Rights Reserved"

The film begins with a short text celebrating India's cultural ...

Reel 1: (Can - Yadanaku Pwe 1941) "Regatta at Yedanaku 1941" Sign to Ava Bridge 9 miles. Ox carts transport parts of Karaweik Paung mythical bird for subsequent assembly on a backwater of the River Irrawaddy near Amarapura when the river was in full ...

Edited and titled amateur film showing episodes in the life of the Royal Horse Guards at the beginning of the war and their transportation to Palestine, February 1940.

This film is again part ...

Home movie shot apparently of the Staffordshire Yeomanry at Metulla and Tiberias in 1940.

There is film of a horse-jumping display and of street scenes in Metulla and Tiberias. There are various shots of the cavalry ...

Large contingent of Royal West African Frontier Force arrive in India by ship.

Various scenes of their travelling by train precede scenes of their arrival.

I. 'THE FLEET SINKS AN ITALIAN WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.' A British naval patrol reportedly pursues three enemy ships for a day and a night. Shots of activity aboard RN vessels including lookouts on bridge. Enemy ships are sighted; action ...

I. 'ATTACK ON A FRONTIER FORT IN LIBYA.' A combined force of British Rolls-Royce and Marmon-Herrington armoured cars penetrates the four hundred mile defensive fence on the Libyan frontier. The British artillery bombardment of Fort Maddalena. Bombing ...

I. 'WAR IN THE SUDAN.' Map shows strategic importance of Atbara and Khartoum using the Nile as a reference point. Paddle steamer and tugs on Nile, water wheels and oxen in bygone days of peace. Commentary outlines Mussolini's aggressive plans over ...

I. 'ANTHONY EDEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' Anthony Eden, the British Secretary of State for War arrives in Alexandria harbour on a tender to inspect the British Queen Elizabeth Class battleship HMS Warspite. The tender pulls alongside as Anthony Eden is ...

Scenes at Purbeck Lodge and Government House, Naini Tal 1938; Lucinda with servants; New House, Lucknow, 1939, and garden show; boy scout ceremony at Government House, Allahabad. Sir Harry Haig's farewell party at Government House ...

Various events at Naini Tal in 1939, including two christenings and the King's birthday parade. New Year's Day parade 1940. Lucinda on pony in Simla.

Swimming pool, Cecil Hotel, Delhi:1940.

Production / Donor ...

Garhwal: skiing in Punjab. High mountain scenery with snowfields and single person skiing and tobogganing. Sherpa porters. Mountain villages. Delhi public buildings. European children playing in domestic scenery in England. Children ...