I. AA Defence of ships. LA.MS of twin 40mm AA as it trains and fires - destroyer's funnel in the background, frame right. MS in rear of 6x40mm on aircraft carrier - mounting trains and fires.
II. Aerial MLSs of HMS Eagle underway with escorting ...
I. AA Defence of ships. LA.MS of twin 40mm AA as it trains and fires - destroyer's funnel in the background, frame right. MS in rear of 6x40mm on aircraft carrier - mounting trains and fires.
II. Aerial MLSs of HMS Eagle underway with escorting ...
HMS Glory leaves Grand Harbour, Valletta.
HA of HMS Glory as she leaves Malta, steaming left to right past the camera. The crew man the side, with Sea Furies parked abreast the island, and ...
(Part 1) (a) Visit to Grand Turk Island: cable parties prepare to enter harbour, pilot comes on board. Shot from bridge. Quartermaster sounds by hand lead line. Port anchor goes - cable running out. Commissioner arrives on ...
HMS Kenya in Mombasa, November 1942.
Races in a pulling regatta in Mombasa Harbour (7th to 10th November, 1952). Remembrance Day Parade, 9th November; units taking part include Royal Navy, ...
HMS Kenya arrives in Mombasa, 23rd October, 1952.
Desmond O'Hagan (Provincial Commissioner for the Coast Province and Chairman of the Emergency Defence Committee) arrives, and departs after ...
I. MS as HMS Ocean passes right to left, steaming through the breakwater to leave Grand Harbour - the crew line the side for leaving port and Fireflies and Sea Furies are ranged aft. A Westland Dragonfly hovers over ...
MS off the starboard quarter of HMS Ocean in Grand Harbour - crew man the side as the ship departs. Carrier passes the mole where the camera is situated - Sea Furies and Fireflies parked on deck - sea calm - crew give ...
HMS Protector, guardship to the Falkland Islands Dependencies, assists the survey ship RRS Shackleton after damage by ice in the waters off South Georgia.
LS of one of Protector's ...
On 23rd January 1955, HMS Superb on passage from Kingston, Jamaica to Callao in Peru passed through the Panama Canal.
Superb approaches Gatun Lock from Cristobal and passes through the locks ...
Lord Mountbatten with family and friends swimming and skin-diving from a launch.
There are also some shots of them boarding the launch from a warship (HMS Surprise?) and of local fishermen at work in harbour ( ...
HMS Tyne at Gibraltar. Beating the Retreat.
Long and close-up shots of complete band. CUs of individual bandsmen. Royal Marines bandsmen are in helmets, the "Dukes" in caps.
Notes ...
HMS Eagle at sea, flying off Sea Hawks and Sea Venoms, and at Malta as HMS Victorious comes in to join her in Grand Harbour.
Onboard HMS Eagle at sea. LS aft along the deck as a range of 806 ...
A boisterous crossing the line ceremony on HMS Warrior off West Africa, and Exercise Shop Window, in which South African military and civilian VIPs are taken onboard to see the ship put through its ...
Taken in February 1953. Includes 400ft of Vanguard entering dry dock in Gibraltar.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.
Family life in Tanganyika, including everyday scenes, and the work of white nurses in improving the health and standards of the people.
Story of the development of Hong Kong over the last 15 years, including the growth of new industries and social services. It also shows how Hong Kong has become a key-point of Far Eastern commerce and communications, and the part it plays in world ...
Amateur film shot by Flight Lieutenant Denis "Nick" Nichols prior to becoming training officer to the Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from September 1954 to May 1955 records social and ceremonial scenes in the British crown ...
Travelogue on Hong Kong.
When the daughter of a trade union organiser announces her relationship with a black man, the revelation exposes deep prejudice and hidden conflicts in her family.
This television play, part of the 'Armchair Theatre' ...
Film illustrating the method of house construction.
Investiture at HAFMED, Malta.
Vice-Admiral James A Fife, USN (Deputy C-in-C Allied Forces Med) presents decorations on behalf of US government to four British officers (for service in Korea), ...
HRH Princess Elizabeth visits RNAS Hal Far, January 1951.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete since film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI series records.
Voyage from Freetown to England on the M.V. Accra, showing various activities of the sailors and the passengers on board and different stops at unknown ports along the way.
Production / Donor Details: Mrs. Harley lived in the ...
Kumasi. Buying vegetables on allotments. Forestry work at camp Tinto, Bepu. Opening of the Assizes at Accra. Kumasi market. A murder Trial at Accra Court House. European adults & children at play. A Timber Mill. The Community Center & ...