INTEREST. Scenes of official and unofficial engagements during Lord Linlithgow's term of office as Viceroy of India.

R.1 (NEPAL) - 1938. Tiger-hunting in Nepal as guests of the Maharaja; the base was a camp on the India-Nepal border. From a ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: READY FOR ANYTHING QUEEN MARY RECEIVES MOBILE CANTEENS NEWS FROM THE WESTERN DESERT 'BEAUFIGHTERS' IN PRODUCTION NEW ZEALAND GETS V.C. LIFE AT GIBRALTAR RED CROSS SHIP GIVEN BY DUTCH ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: AT GIBRALTAR, NEWS IS OF ROYAL VISIT OF INSPECTION KING AND QUEEN SEE MOUNTING EFFORT OF EMPIRE AND U.S. PRESENTING COLOURS TO CANADIANS PRODUCTS OF EMPIRE TRAINING SCHEME STIFF TRAINING ...

Zionist settlements in Palestine.

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AT HOME THE STORY IS OF PREPAREDNESS FOR ANY ORDEAL NEW CRUISER VISITED BY HOLLAND'S QUEEN BRAVE SOLDIERS OF GREECE CONTINUE TO AMAZE THE WORLD MR EMNZIES COMES TO BRITAIN BY WAY OF ...

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MR MENZIES GOES HOME TO REPORT BACK FROM GREECE HOME GUARDS, KING'S GUARD GORT TAKES OVER DEFENCE OF ROCK LEASE-LEND AID NEARS CLIMAX ERITREA - THE END

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: STIRLING BOMBERS-FIRST PICTURES LATEST FROM SINGAPORE SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS IN USA EMPIRE AND SOVIET ARMIES MEET IN IRAN ARMY EXERCISE IN ...

Amateur travel film.

[From notes supplied by archive donor:]

Road Journey to Srinager, seen from the Takt, seen from the Jhelum river, Dal Lakes, Shalimar Gardens, Trout Hetcheries, Nagmag, Leaving Pahlgam, Lidar Valley, to the Amarnath ...

Amateur travel film.

[From notes supplied by archive donor:]

Sind Valley, Nishat Bagh, Vale of Kashmir, Dal Lakes, Chasmi Bagh, Jhelum river.

Film of British occupation of Madagascar

LS of coastline and ships on the horizon. Shot from destroyer's bridge-forward turrets traversed to port. Rear 3/4 MS of Fiji Class light cruiser. Bridge scenes. Entry into ...

I. "Kisa Haberler". Operation of a fleet mail office: sorting, typical broken packages - one containing some very bruised apples - censors at work.

II. Painting ship - a King George V Class battleship, ...

A picture of the decentralised mass-production methods used to produce the largest possible quantity of Fairmile Patrol Boats from small shipyards around the British Isles (and the Empire) during the Second World War ...

I. Operation Substance. Escort force at sea. HMS Nelson and Ark Royal steam in company with Renown. A Sunderland flying boat circles and flashes a signal. The convoy comes under air attack - flak speckles the sky, a stick of three bombs explodes in ...

I. Fleet Air Arm Over the Desert. Film showing Martlet IIIs of 805 Squadron based at Mersa Matruh (?) in 1941 as a component of the Royal Naval Fighter Squadron. CU of member of groundcrew painting the identification numbers AX 733 on fuselage. MS ...

(1) "Gibraltar's New Governor". Group MS of Lord Gort, Vice-Admiral Somerville and Lieutenant General Sir Clive Liddell.

(2) "Britannia Rules the Mediterranean". LS of fleet at sea. Harbour scenes, Valletta, Malta. MLS, HMS Ark Royal. Hunt ...

Indian infantry moving across the desert carrying out practice operations at Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt. Shots of General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson watching operations.

Notes

This is Roll 4 of a ...

British and Indian troops in action around Cheren (Keren), Eritrea.

Troops load up trucks with supplies for the front line on a portion of railway captured from the ...

General Maitland Wilson visits 7th Indian Brigade, 4/11th Sikhs, at Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt. Soldiers putting up tents in desert camp. Bren gun and anti tank rifle instruction. Camp barber at work. Slit ...

Indian Film Unit shots. Supply point in Eritrea. Weighing sugar and tea for the troops. Troops eat chapatties for lunch. A British NCO chats with the Havildar Sahib. Army bakery at work. Delighted Indian ...

Shots from Indian Film Unit. Capture of Massawa, Eritrea. Indian troops, Italian prisoners. Garwali Regiment. Free French Commander. General Heath watches operations. Sunken vessel in harbour.

Film made by the South African Film Unit. South African troops in Abyssinia at Fort Tessenai. General Pienaar. Italian prisoners. Indian troops. Duke of Aosta as prisoner inspecting troops ...

Film made by the Indian Film Unit. Indian troops at Damascus, Syria. Entry of General Catroux. Named Free French officers. French cavalry, damaged buildings, etc.

Notes

Remarks: sent by ...

The Forestry Company of the Cyprus Volunteer Force at Troodos, Cyprus. The men fall in and fetch arms and march along the forest paths. They rake away pine cones and sticks as fire prevention and fell ...

Mules on Mount Olympus. Scottish soldiers eating at Othello's Tower at Famagusta, Cyprus. Soldiers cheering. Local farmers employing traditional farming methods: yoking of oxen, threshing, winnowing corn ...

Firing practice by the Territorial Army at Limassol, Cyprus. Men rush to their posts, swing the gun round and fire off a few rounds. Another gun position, the gun is being operated by a remote control ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle East, General Auchinleck, arrives at Nicosia Aerodrome, Cyprus. Plane landing, Hurricane escort. The General alights from the plane and is greeted by ...

Major General Ramsden watches infantry training near Lapithos, Cyprus. Two men carry a mobile field radio. Some shots taken at an observation post.

Hotchkiss gun training in Troodos, Cyprus. Cadets are instructed by a British sergeant-major. Cadets undergoing physical training. Bayonet drill and squad drill. Map reading instruction.

AYY 157/1. 3 Oct 1941. Shots taken en route with reinforcement convoy and the first sights of Gibraltar. Troops sunbathing and playing "housie housie". Spanish frontier scenes. Police examining papers ...

Australian troops and nurses arrive by hospital ship at Singapore. Medical stores are unloaded and crates of Canadian Ford equipment, addressed to the Minister of Supplies, Singapore. The men and nurses ...

Demonstration at Kabrit, Suez for General Auchinleck of SAS parachutists jumping from a Bristol Bombay aircraft. Cameraman is inside the aircraft.

Bren carriers manned by Indian troops moving up to the front in Libya. They crash through the barbed wire under shell fire and are followed by the infantry. A platoon of a "famous Indian regiment" led ...

AYY 173/1. 8 Oct. 1941 ca. Major General Keith Simmons addresses a gathering of officers. A Bren carrier moves along the road and turns into a ditch. Royal Engineers receiving blackboard instruction on ...

General views of Gondar, Ethiopia, including the fort with prisoners and Ras Seyoum's castle. Lieutenant-General Wetherall, Acting GOC East Africa with Major General Foulkes, GOC 12th African Division, ...

Abandoned German tanks near Gambut, Libya. Italian prisoners working in Tobruk. Convoy going out to round up remaining pockets of Germans and Italians in Gambut area. Germans being captured and taken ...

Pan American flying boat "Anzac Clipper" escorted by Brewster Buffaloes lands on the water at Singapore Civil Airport and taxies away. Alfred and Lady Diana Duff Cooper leave the plane, followed by Mr ...

Netherlands East Indies Air Force at Singapore, flying and landing. They are welcomed by Air Vice-Marshal Pulford and inspected by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. The aircraft are Lockheed ...

Australian Red Cross ambulance with bullet holes, which drove across Kota Baru and Alor Star aerodromes rescuing people from Japanese machine gun fire and bombing. Ambulance driver.

Three Dogras of ...

25 pounders going forward along flooded road in Malaya. Troops advancing through rubber plantation. Refugees from Penang arrive at Ipoh railway station and receive food and drink from mobile canteen.

AYY 191/1. 19 Dec. 1941. Indian infantry enter the town after it has been captured from the Axis powers. German and Italian signs including "Long Live the Duce". Wrecked aircraft after the battle on ...

Sequence of shots in connection with the fall of Bardia, Libya.

Indian Labour Corps repairing road. Signallers repairing telephone on the road from Mersa Matruh to Sidi ...

Shots taken around Sollum and Sidi Barrani before the fall of Bardia. Sorting captured Italian rifles and clothing, shells and cartridge boxes. Military Police on battlefield near Divisional Headquarters ...

Leslie Howard explains to three Dominion soldiers why the Empire is at war.

The soldiers - from Australia, Canada and New Zealand - meet in Trafalgar Square, where a gushing lady commends them for "answering the ...

A survey of the equipment and training of the British Empire's armies, emphasising both the novelties of modern war (movement, mechanisation, mass numbers) and the traditional importance of the fighting man behind the ...

A view of the Empire's Navies, in peace and war, designed to emphasise their size and power, worldwide distribution, and fighting character (in explicit contrast to Axis navies).

An interesting attempt is made to ...

A survey of the equipment and brief but already glorious history of the RAF, including the contributions of the Air Forces of the Empire.

WW1 and inter-war film shows glimpses of Sopwith Camels, SE5s, Bristols, the ...

A compilation of film of factory production of war material in Britain and throughout the Empire.

A minimal degree of continuity is provided by film of King George VI visiting various factories; also much use is made ...

Kenya's first two years of war.

Opens with establishing shots - Mount Kenya, wild-life, black schoolchildren, white settlers; maps and headlines tell of Italian invasion of Abyssinia, outbreak of war. Men ...