North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their throats and collecting the blood; 4) a dog being burnt. The background is rocky, hilly scenery; 1945: 5) African woman in a ...

North-east Nigeria: 1) African village; 2) girl pounding grain; 3) making scar decorations on a boys back; the operation is watched by a crowd of on-lookers; 4) village: mud huts with thatch; 5) wide scenic shots with scattered farmsteads; 6) building ...

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I. Hawker Sea Fury 098 takes off from Illustrious Class aircraft carrier. Safety barrier lifts behind aircraft.

II. Camera pans to follow small formations and individual Firefly aircraft as they fly past aircraft carrier.

III. Flight deck ...

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

A small airstrip is built at the remote village of Saizang, 8 miles south west of Tiddim, Burma, and British and American light aircraft use it to ...

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

Light aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) evacuate casualties of 11th East African Division from Yazagyo, Burma.

A USAAF L-5 ...

Great Britain

The rising standard of health of the native communities of East Africa brought about by improved methods of cattle farming.

The film was produced from Animal Husbandry (1948)

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

The 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment celebrate their centenary with a formal presentation of new colours at Kuala Lumpur, with Lord Mountbatten, the ...

GB

An outline of the campaign in Burma from the abortive Japanese 'March on Delhi' offensive of 1944 to the Allies' recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon in May 1945.

The visual material is compatible with (rather than an ...

Great Britain

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Shot by Lieutenant Abbas: Indian troops line a road as General Slim's jeep passes, followed by a second. Gurkha (?) troops at the roadside. Jeeps drive away from camera towards ...

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

Allied troops take part in a ceremonial parade in Bangkok, capital of Siam (Thailand), with His Majesty the King of Siam and Lord Louis Mountbatten, ...

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

After victory over the Japanese in the battle for Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma Lieutenant-General W J Slim takes part in a flag raising ceremony in ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Rehearsed and actual ceremony of the presentation of the George Cross by Lord Gort at a parade in the presence of local and military VIPs in Palace Square.

The Guard of ...

THIS MODERN AGEGreat Britain

INTEREST.

RL.1 Opening shots of an arch in Colombo and Ceylonese people. After the achievement of full independence, the opening of the new Parliament by the Duke of Gloucester is shown. A brief historical resume of ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Film showing flying boat operations and airmen's recreational activities at RAF Koggala in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). RAF Consolidated Catalina aircraft taking off and coming ...

THIS MODERN AGEGreat Britain

DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.

RL.1 Different races and religions in Nigeria to be integrated - The Moslem Northerners ( ...

Great Britain

ACTUALITY. The 1948 Conservative Party conference: Oliver Stanley's speech on the benefits brought to the colonies by private enterprise and R.A.Butler's presentation of the Agricultural Charter.

AMATEUR. Film of refugee and flood rescue operations in Burma.

Chaukan I. Diyum River. Flood rescues; elephants; Captain Whitehouse rescue. Rossiter family rescue.

Chaukan II. Namgoi Nuk. Rescue operations of refugees coming from Burma by ...

GB

Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Indian Engineers at work building a pontoon bridge. Pushing out ...

GB

A sympathetic look at "the storm centre of the war in the Far East".

Reel 1 explains China's geography and culture, concentrating on 20th century history of efforts by Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-shek to modernise ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, possibly in Chungking. A group of four ...

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

Men of 14th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), having been evacuated by air from Burma are seen at a rest camp at Tinsukia (in Assam, India) ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near Lahore, India (Pakistan).

...

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

Chinese troops of New First Army, veterans of the Burma campaign, board American landing ships at Kowloon docks in Hong Kong for transport to Manchuria ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Chinese Air Force trainees undergoing ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A party of high-ranking Chinese officers visit Malta on their way to Britain.

The party includes Major General Wang Pia Chenk, General Yang Chieh, Colonel Hoo Kwang Shee ...

Great Britain

The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of the Copperbelt industry.

The commentator introduces the story over a map, with the title 'Northern Rhodesia 1902'. 'At the ...

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

Footage of a Christmas church service held for a Royal Artillery unit, probably in northern Burma.

Gunners at a church service; at the front of ...

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

Footage of a Christmas church service being conducted in the field, probably for troops of 36th Division in northern Burma, December 1944.

Shots ...

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

The men of 5th Infantry Brigade headquarters (2nd Division) enjoy Christmas festivities at Yazagyo, north of Kalemyo in Burma.

A banner reads ' ...

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

Footage of Christmas festivities of 25th Indian Division in the coastal Arakan region of Burma in December 1944.

Men singing; some are wearing the ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARUnited States of America

Somewhere in the ...

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

Footage of Christmas festivities being conducted in the field by troops of 36th Division in northern Burma, December 1944.

Close-up of a British ...

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

British soldiers of XV Corps celebrate Christmas 1944 on the Teknaf Peninsula on the Indo-Burma border.

A man leaves a tent; he carries a bugle. ...

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

On Christmas Day 1945 a party of around 70 Dutch and Chinese children are welcomed aboard the Royal Navy Harbour Repair Ship HMS Assistance, anchored ...

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

Film apparently taken in northern Burma showing preparations for Christmas in December 1944, by men of 36th Division.

View over a supply dump in ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

23 Nov. 1943.The Prime Minister with Lord Gort is shown around the dockyard by Vice Admiral Hamilton and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Mackenzie. Churchill gives the V for Victory sign and smokes a ...

CINEMAGAZINEGreat Britain

1. Coastal Trader: Indian seamen in their primitive vessels. 2. Doggett's Coat and Badge: the annual race in London for Doggett's coat and Badge, and £20, the race is rowed in light skiffs from London Bridge to Chelsea, by ...

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

Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.

...

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

After driving the Japanese out of the Akyab area of Burma the British-run Civil Affairs unit moves in to help the local population recover from the ...

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

Film showing various activities of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) in Mandalay, including collecting weapons, issuing rations and pensions, ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Burmese men buy longyis (traditional Burmese sarongs) from a stall. A Burmese woman brings a new born baby for a (Burmese?) military doctor to examine. Burmese men fill sacks with rice? in the background is ...

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

Civilian internees, freed from Japanese captivity at Tavoy (now Dawei) in Lower Burma, arrive by air at Mingaladon airfield near Rangoon before being ...

United States of America

Calcutta. Ceylon. Tea picking. Coconut collecting. Water well. Kandy. "The End."

Great Britain

The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut from the trees and the beans extracted, fermented and dried in the sun. They are then sent to a central depot and dispatched in bulk to ...

Great Britain

The method of harvesting cocoa in the Cold Coast. The cultural background of the people and cutting of the cocoa pods to the export of the beans are shown.

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Somewhere in the Arakan coastal region ...