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

In forward areas on the Burma front, a ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Funeral of Sawbwa (ruler) of Hsipaw state, in the Northern Shan States of Burma, with parade by Gurkha Battalion (8th ?) who fire volley over coffin. Also scenes of gambling, presumably ...

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

Men of the Burma Intelligence Corps order civilians from their village of Namma in northern Burma before British troops of 36th Division pass through ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

A DC3/C47 taking off from an airstrip and landing again. A group of Bhuddist monks (sayadaws).

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Technical: film marked " ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.

Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Myitkyina captured 3 August 1944, Bhamo December 1944.

Cu mules. Soldiers at slope arms, march off. Mules groomed each other. Men preparing raft. Wide shot river. On board raft, ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Shorter version with different shots, mules and muleteer. Putting harness on mules, loading up. Briefing gurkhas. Mule train. Crossing bridge in mist. On board raft going down river. Rapids. Panning shots of ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

This amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson appears to be reconstructed scenes of BNA exercises in the jungle.

Two Burmese soldiers, one plays the bugle. Burma National Army ( ...

Great Britain

The visit of Queen Elizabeth, consort to George VI, to the Burma Pvailion at the opening of the Empire Exhibition on 3rd May 1938.

Opens with middle-distance shot of the Queen leaving the pavilion. Then shows in sequence the various ...

GB

Film about the Allied victory in Burma.

Introduction briefly outlines the geography and climate of Burma, and the extent of the Japanese conquests. The film then describes the establishment of SEAC under Mountbatten, ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten takes the salute of the ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the representative ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten taking the salute of the representative services at the Naval Review, Rangoon (17 ...

GB

Sync slates 64 to 66 from Burma Victory (not used in final production) with Mountbatten talking to officers about the excellence of the troops in India, and troops with band playing marching past the camera.

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while ...

Great Britain

Titles (2). Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon (50). Boats on Irrawaddy River and (98) market on river bank (106). Mountain and river (118). Market on river bank (124). Sunset (128). Village (130). Men in stream prospecting (139). Village ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Native village. Troops crossing river. On bridge of steamer. Wide shot river, cu Paddles, helmsman, cu bank, Pagoda, ls boat, cu flag. Oiling engine. Shots of ferry. Pistons/boiler/firebox. Ls ...

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

Liberated local people perform traditional dances for British and Indian troops at Pagan, central Burma.

Line of Burmese civilians in elaborate ...

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

After the retreating Japanese abandon a trainload of foodstuffs in the face of the advancing 5th Indian Division near Pyu, Burma, local civilians are ...

MATTHEW NATHAN AMATEUR FILM COLLECTIONGB

Amateur film showing some aspects of life in pre-Second World War Burma. Inter-titles introduce most scenes.

Rangoon. The Shwe Dagon Pagoda. People around the Pagoda. A notice ...

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

Scenes from a refugee camp at Rangiya (Rangyia) in Assam, India.

Burmese civilians, including men, women and children, cross frame from right to ...

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

Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, commander of 14th Army, is honoured with performances of traditional Burmese entertainments at Monywa, northwest ...

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

Scenes of Burmese civilian life in a large village in the Arakan region of Burma, five miles from Kindaunggyi, on the banks of the Tanlwe Chaung (river ...

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

For the first time since the liberation of Rangoon, Burma, almost a year previously, the people of the city celebrate the Water Festival with lavish ...

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

After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian nationalists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia ...

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

In Surabaya a large pall of smoke hangs over a burning kampong or village. Two Chinese civilians approach carrying their belongings; the leading man carries a small Chinese flag to ...

Great Britain, USA

Nature story about a young colonial girl lost in the African wilderness with her pet bushbaby.

The film opens with air to ground shots from an aeroplane of the snow covered Alps, the Italian coastline and Rome. The film continues with highlights of Rosie Newman's visit to Cyprus including scenes in and around Kyrenia, carob and olive trees, a ...

Baekeland Collection

A film of a safari from Isiolo in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya across Chalbi desert to North Horr(?). 2 Landrovers with police radio equipment to keep in touch with outside world.

Barron Collection

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Military band performing on the march at a military establishment (Poor focus). Celebrations and parade, probably in Nicosia on Greek ...

Barron Collection

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Greek wedding & party and Greek Orthodox priest. Country life. Camels. Floods. Forests. Troodos Mountians. Coastal scenery. Coastal ...

Barron Collection

Title falsely suggests the film is a story of a summer holiday in the Troodos mountains. There are some scenes from Cyprus but many more are of scenes in Britain. Extensive sequence of general and external views of Durham Cathedral, ...

British couple working with the Air Ministry Works Department living off base among Greek-Cypriots. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies. Fancy Dress; arrival of Father Christmas on a decorated donkey cart. Coastal scenery. Byzantine & Roman ruins, ...

Bell Collection

Grandma's visit, Shad Valance Thika, Jardini holiday, Arusha Holiday, city park, Arboreliern, coffee trees.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and ...

Bell Collection

Mitchell Park Show,

Thika

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in Nairobi. She married a motor ...

Bell Collection

Wedding of Mary Beatrice Leithead & Alan Martin Shadrack at St. Francis Church, Karen, near Nairobi on 30th July 1960. Reception at Shadracks' House Rhino Park Road, Karen.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil ...

Bell Collection

East Africa Airways - visiting.

Scenes believed to be of various cities & towns - Mombasa, Zanzibar, Nairobi, Gedi, Mbarara, Mwanza, Iringa, Dar-es -Salaam, Bagamoyo, Tanga, Namanca?.

Murchison Falls. Ruins of an Arab ...

Bell Collection

1961

Queen Elizabeth Park - river trip, animals, birds, performence of local tribal dance. Livingstone. Victoria Falls.

An African sunset taken from the air.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a ...

Bell Collection

Nevasa, Suez, Port Said, Cairo, Gibraltar. Jean + Glen at Barcelona, setting sun.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications ...

Bell Collection

Kilimanjaro

Game. Sarah & Simon Bell, Bell's House (Nairobi)

Peter Kenyatta

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications ...

Bell Collection

Sarah-Pineapple, dog show, Helicofter, swimming, Mombasa, seaside.

Production / Donor Details: Mary Bell was a Colonial Civil Servant from 1955 to 1965 working for the East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Administration in ...

Birch Collection

Housing and street scenes, estuary harbour life (probably Lagos) also showing some Western shipping but mostly African craft and fishermen.

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne ...

Birch Collection

King Jimmy Market/ Waterslide Market/ Sulima

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the ...

Birch Collection

Freetown/Sussex

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...

Birch Collection

Scenes in Sierra Leone

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...

Birch Collection

At home in Sierra Leone

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; ...

Birch Collection

Aeroplane landing.

Production / Donor Details: Films taken by John Birch. In the 1950s the John and Daphne Birch were mainly in Sierra Leone, where he was head of Unilever, and also held a position on the Legislative Council; the ...

Birch Collection

Most of the film features the Birches and friends young and old at leisure on the beaches of Sussex bay on the Freetown peninsula in Sierra Leone. Some sequences demonstrate its beautiful setting; others also show native settlements ...