BRITISH NEWS

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include MORE AMERICANS LAND IN IRELAND MIDDLE EASTERN NEWS MORE UNDERGROUND FACTORIES INDIAN ARMY ENGINEERS LEASE-LEND STILL COMING FIGHTER AEROPLANE PRODUCTION

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. COMES HOME CAPTIVES FROM NAZI SEA RAIDER HOME TOWN GREETS AUSSIE V.C. OUTPUT OF ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include RUSSIA TRAINING NEW MILLIONS AMERICA GEARED UP FOR WAR MALTA - THE ISLAND FORTRESS H.M.S. RENOWN ON LEAVE AMERICAN AMPHIBIOUS TRACTORS AMERICAN TROOPS ON ROUTE FOR AUSTRALIA ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include HOW COMMANDOS GET ST. NAZAIRE SPIRIT YUGOSLAV AIRMEN HIT BACK IN EAST SOVIET HONOURS BRITISH AIRMEN BURMA CRISIS

BRITISH NEWS

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include SUPPLY ROUTES IN THE FAR EAST INDIAN HEROES DECORATED NEWS FROM EGYPT FIGHTING THROUGH TO MALTA

BRITISH NEWS

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include MALTA RECEIVES THE GEORGE CROSS THE BOSTON BOMBER AIR RAIDS IN JAPAN ARCTIC VOYAGE SCHOOL FOR BATTLE

Unedited rushes filmed in Lagos, Takoradi and Kano (West African Convoy Route).

Airport- troops emplaning-mail/ General De Gaulle Scenes.

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I. "The Promise of 1942." Survey of major political and military developments of 1942 which started inauspiciously with the loss of Singapore (peacetime views and evacuation of civilians) and ended encouragingly with success in North Africa and the ...

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British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.

Opening titles "Burma. A War Correspondent's Despatch. Film and Story by Maurice Ford". A ...

GB

"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- ...

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Prior to his recent death in an air crash, General Orde Wingate receives SEAC Commander Mountbatten at his training base in India for Chindit operations behind Japanese lines in Burma.

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS

"ENGLISH GIRL WINS TABLE TENNIS TITLE". Table tennis competition at Wembley. Jean Nichol wins. Bergman of Austria wins men's English title.

"HITLER'S SPEECH REASSURES WORLD". In Berlin, Adolf Hitler addresses audience on the ...

Great Britain

An account of a typical days work by an English policeman in a provincial city - Leicester.

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

Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently liberated from Japanese captivity at Rangoon jail, are seen boarding a ship at Rangoon docks for evacuation to ...

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START 10:45:42 Mr Robinson, a British settler living in Limuru near Nairobi, strolls out of his farm house onto the lawn, lights up a cigarette and surveys his property from the garden fence. He is joined by his wife and together they return to the ...

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

Red and white flag of the Indonesian republic flying. Graffiti reads 'Freedom the glory of any nation'. Small pieces of paper on a wall read 'Our government is a government from ...

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

As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...

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

British troops of ...

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

In northern Burma, ...

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

A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines and a local Chinese team.

General Festing, ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - ADENGB

I. The departing High Commissioner, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, reviews the Naval task force supporting the British withdrawal. He is accompanied by Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, C-in-C Middle East Command, who is to return ...

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

In Singapore on New Year's Day 1946, a treaty is concluded between Australia, Britain and Siam (Thailand), formally ending hostilities and allowing ...

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(Reel 1) Hurricane Mk Is of 111 Squadron at Northolt, 1939-1940. Fighter pilots practise air to air wireless communication by riding bicycles, fitted with radio sets in front of handle bars, across tarmac at Northolt. Experiment/training is watched ...

USA

Hong Kong and port seen through the eyes of a typical New Yorker.

Nigeria

The recruitment, training, and passing out parade at the Southern Police College in Nigeria.

Great Britain

Amateur film of Buenos Aires and the Falkland Islands.

Entering Buenos Aires, travelling shot of street scenes in the city, skyscrapers, the Colour Theatre(?), the City Hotel. Notice board on "Higiene Sexual" (80ft). Entering Port ...

Great Britain

Annual ceremony of dancing to mark male and female circumcision ceremonies of the Bugusi-Sebei tribe in Uganda. The ceremonies lasted about three days. Footage includes the circumcision, dancing tribes in elaborate costumes, face painting ...

Depicts the building and opening of the London Missionary Society Hospital, Mbereshi, North Rhodesia. Also includes a survey of the work of the hospital and medical work carried out in the district, including the dispensary at Kazembe. LMS mission ...

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

West African Engineers construct a ferry over the Kalapanzin River in the Arakan region of Burma.

African troops of 82nd West African resting in ...

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

Reel 1: A small motor launch draws alongside a troopship. A Major climbs a staircase up to the deck followed by a Major-General. Talking to a Military Policeman. The general is ...

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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 ...

Rhodesia

Education for rural children in Northern Rhodesia, both white and black.

Rhodesia

A travelogue advertising the touristic delights of Bulawayo and district. It includes shots of landscapes in Rhodesia, big game, fishing, the Kariba Dam, and Victoria Falls. There are aerial shots of Bulawayo, along with planes, trains, hotels, ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.

Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.

Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in ...

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Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Miles Arrindell of the Second Battalion Suffolk Regiment records scenes during the Battle of Imphal, including a Japanese prisoner-of-war and the capture of the Isaac feature (June 1944), and later (after transfer to ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

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 ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

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. ...

Burma, 19 March 1942. Long shots of the Myotha Hills. Various shots of Burmese civilians driving bullock carts along a dirt road. View over along the Ava Bridge. Cars passing the a manned, gated checkpoint. View of the bridge from a protective machine ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

The Burma Rifles presenting arms. A brief shot of two naval officers and sailor. The Burmese Naval Reserves? on parade. Burmese Army? on parade (red shoulder flash with white five-point star). Close-up on ' ...

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22 February 1942: short panning shot over camouflaged tented camp on the edge of the airfield at Magwe, Burma, ending with group shot of personnel of RAF Squadron 113 outside of one of the larger tents posing for the cameraman. Individual shots of ...

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Magwe, Burma, 23 February 1942. Aircraft and personnel of RAF Squadron 113. Aircrew in the back of a lorry driving to Bristol Blenheim Mk IV aircraft. Various self-conscious shots of aircrew fastening themselves into their parachutes and climbing in ...

I. Burma, late February 1942. Mid shots of fires in the distance, long shots of aircraft in the sky (poor quality), probably footage of a bombing raid on Magwe airfield.

II. Magwe, Burma, 27 February 1942. Brief shot of the cameraman's (?) ...

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

At the Burma Athletic Association in Rangoon, capital of Burma, an athletic meeting is held and teams from various military formations compete for the ...

USA

Hero Tracks down the traitor betraying convoy movements to the enemy.