YOKE HENG'S STORY 1954
Some aspects of Singapore's social welfare services in a story centred on Yoke Heng, whose parents enter a hospital. How he and his brothers and sisters are cared for until the family is reunited in a new municipal flat.
Some aspects of Singapore's social welfare services in a story centred on Yoke Heng, whose parents enter a hospital. How he and his brothers and sisters are cared for until the family is reunited in a new municipal flat.
Horace Underwood and Percy Chen on Communist China. The influx of refugees to Hong Kong and the problems caused.
Begins with title board for Roach film 'Scenes in the Seychelles'. Then changes to colour family footage. Girls sitting on giant tortoise. Beach scenes, ships (colour). Revert to b/w (possibly footage from 'Scenes '?). Shipboard scenes. ...
(Part 1) Sir Rhoderick is met at Luqa Airport by Admiral Mountbatten (C-in-C Med) and inspects RAF Guard of Honour. General Lawton Collins US Army (US delegate to Standing Group), Admirals Nomy and Lemonnier (French Navy), ...
Royal Marines at Gibraltar, February 1954.
Part 2 contains scenes of Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon H A McMillen (the Governor General of Gibraltar) and aides-de-campe crossing by jackstay ...
The Combined Fleets at Gibraltar, March 1954.
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Technical: print badly scratched and has ingrained dirt; damp has destroyed one side of reel.
Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been ...
Survivors from Empire Windrush at Gibraltar, March 1954.
HMS Triumph arrives at Gibraltar from Algiers followed by general views of transport. Survivors of the Empire Windrush disembark from ...
The Mediterranean Fleet at Gibraltar, April 1954.
Mediterranean Fleet and French Destroyer Squadron leave harbour at Gibraltar for combined exercises in the Mediterranean before their visit ...
Activities of men of the Mediterranean Fleet around Malta and Gibraltar, April 1954.
Mediterranean Fleet Clearance Diving Team arrives at Luqa Airport to travel to Gibraltar as an evolution. ...
Escort for HM Queen Elizabeth II, May 1954, in final stages of Commonwealth Tour: Mediterranean.
(Part 1) From HMS Britannia, 2nd May. (Part 2) From HMS Eagle, 2nd May. (Part 3) From HMS ...
Shots of Area Commanders leaving the building after meeting at HAFMED Headquarters, Floriana, Malta.
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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records ...
Scenes from the Queen's Birthday, Floriana, Malta.
Sir Gerald Creasy arrives and makes his inspection. Parade, including a contingent of Girls of the St John Ambulance Brigade. The firing of ...
I. Scenes of shipboard routine during RN East Mediterranean Cruise.
I. Officer pistol shooting on Quarterdeck. HMS Daring and HMS Delight. Pom pom crew in full action rig. Jackstay crossing. ...
Activities of HMS Bermuda in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Mayor of Iskandron (Iskenderun ?), Mr Arkakyam, is welcomed on board HMS Bermuda by Vice-Admiral Reid, and introduced to senior ...
Visit of the NATO Council to Malta.
NATO Council on board HMS Surprise reviews ships taking part in Exercise Medflex Baker. Flypast and sailpast of SHAFE forces watched by, among others, ...
Celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the capture of Gibraltar by Rooke.
Band of the Royal Marines marches on to parade. Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon MacMillan, Governor of Gibraltar, arrives by car and is handed ...
HMS Glasgow comes alongside Parlatorio Wharf in Malta and men of No 3 Royal Marine Commando disembark.
Slow LA.CU pan from port quarter to boat deck of HMS Glasgow as she comes ...
The Commanding Officer of HMS Centaur relinquishes command at Malta.
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Remarks: uncatalogued.
Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers being evacuated from Trieste to Malta on the light carrier HMS Centaur, and the frigate HMS Whirlwind.
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848 Squadron demonstrates deplaning by rope, parachuting, and abseiling (necessary if a parachutist becomes entangled in jungle trees). The Secretary of State then goes on to ...
Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma relinquishes command in the Mediterranean, December 1954.
Admiral Mountbatten arrives at Customs House Steps. Sir Robert Laycock (Governor of Malta) ...
A visit to the Guard Dog School, Ulu Pandan, Singapore, and to Wardieburn Camp, Kuala Lumpur, where tracker dogs are trained by men of the 1st Royal Hampshires.
CU of the ...
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 ...
A modern prison in Malaya is not only a place of punishment but of rehabilitation. Through the eyes of a man on a long-term sentence, the film shows how once the discipline of prison life has been accepted, a man can earn privileges and ...