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    START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 17 September 1940 on the bridge of HMS Kent in the eastern Mediterranean showing Royal Navy officers wearing tropical uniforms and British steel helmets on duty in bright sunshine; among them is a US Navy officer, ...

     
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    No credits available. Titles show dates only - probable that a commentary was intended to be read alongside film. Depicts the history of the mission ships used by the London Missionary Society in the Pacific islands and Papua, from the beginning of the ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least three giant sea turtles caught for food by the crew of HMS Kent and the waterfront at Male', the main population centre in the island group, ...

     
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    Life and industries in Nigeria.

     
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    Home movie shot apparently of the Staffordshire Yeomanry at Metulla and Tiberias in 1940.

    There is film of a horse-jumping display and of street scenes in Metulla and Tiberias. There are various shots of the cavalry ...

     
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    Stavridi Collection

    Local fisherman in ocean surf. Benares. The approach by rail over river bridge. Ritual bathers in the river and crowds on the city river banks

    Calcutta with moored cargo ships and fishing in the harbour. Construction of the ...

     
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    Stavridi Collection

    Lucknow. Approach to Charbagh railway station. Views of White domed temple and white mosque with twin minaret towers. Fisherman stripped to waist fishing from boat in middle of river. Young local men in kilt and tartan

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    Stavridi Collection

    Family outdoor New Year Party. Cavalcade of the Nepalese PM along Calcutta city river bank. Troop of Indian lancers at Race meeting. Ferry boat trip and frontage of River Hoogly at Calcutta. Botanical Gardens at Calcutta. Road and ...

     
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    Stavridi Collection

    Stables on edge of large town built on hilside with modern buildings spread over the hills and mosque in distance. Street market selling colourful clothes. Waterfall and road bridge in high mountains

    Indian Ocean coast with ...

     
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    Stavridi Collection

    The end of a religious meeting beneath palm trees with teenage African girls clutching books and matting cloth. Middle aged women present and an African Roman Catholic priest. Groups of African parents with their infant children in ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Colour shots filmed on 20 July 1940 showing HMS Queen of Bermuda, a 22,500-ton ex-Furness Bermuda passenger liner now serving as an armed merchant cruiser for the Royal Navy, during a refit at Durban, South Africa, as HMS Kent slowly ...

     
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    Narrative story of two children, Betty and Bob, who visit the offices of the London Missionary Society in London (Livingstone House) and use the library and archives to discover the story of the LMS. Film aimed at a young audience.

     
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    Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records harbour scenes in Singapore, tin dredging in Kuala Lumpur, open tin mine at Hong Fatt and car ...

     
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    Part I: Gurkhas in basic training; negotiating obstacle course; of fire and a ravine. Transporting lorry across river on raft; men cross river by swimming with rifles.

    Part II: Transporting kit across river; by floating on sticks and by pushing ...

     
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    "Kai Yuan" (10 April 1940): camera focuses on tribespeople in distinctive costume trading with Chinese in the walled city. Long shot coverage over Chinese shoulders of the public execution by shooting of two alleged spies by soldiers of the Chinese ...

     
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    Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Chu Hsiung scenes during his tour of French Indo-China, China and ...

     
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    Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Bombay street scenes, Colombo and wife and two sons on beach at Mount Lavinia, Ceylon, ...

     
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    Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records tourist and family scenes in Hong Kong, including busy street life, the harbour area, ...

     
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    A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He is ordained and despite being beaten by villagers he wins over his family who themselves are ...

     
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    An Afrikaner farmer and his African farm hands drive a team of twelve oxen from Capetown to the interior. Their progress is contrasted with the journey from Capetown to Johannesburg by van train and aeroplane.

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    Germany

    I. Prague Trade Fair. Economic success of German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is demonstrated at Prague Trade Fair. Interior scenes include an electric train, while outside visitors inspect a locomotive.

    II. Hitler Youth rowing and ...

     
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    I. Tientsin.

    British soldiers detrain on the quayside and form up before embarking on the Tak Sang out of Hong Kong. Surrender of Britain to Japanese pressure to evacuate this Far Eastern garrison is described as a ...

     
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    No title or credits. Depicts voyages of the London Missionary Society's mission ship, John Williams VI, in the Pacific Islands and Australia.

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Scenes at Purbeck Lodge and Government House, Naini Tal 1938; Lucinda with servants; New House, Lucknow, 1939, and garden show; boy scout ceremony at Government House, Allahabad. Sir Harry Haig's farewell party at Government House ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Various events at Naini Tal in 1939, including two christenings and the King's birthday parade. New Year's Day parade 1940. Lucinda on pony in Simla.

    Swimming pool, Cecil Hotel, Delhi:1940.

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    Vernede Collection

    Garhwal: skiing in Punjab. High mountain scenery with snowfields and single person skiing and tobogganing. Sherpa porters. Mountain villages. Delhi public buildings. European children playing in domestic scenery in England. Children ...

     
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    I. 'ANTHONY EDEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' Anthony Eden, the British Secretary of State for War arrives in Alexandria harbour on a tender to inspect the British Queen Elizabeth Class battleship HMS Warspite. The tender pulls alongside as Anthony Eden is ...

     
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    I. 'THE FLEET SINKS AN ITALIAN WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.' A British naval patrol reportedly pursues three enemy ships for a day and a night. Shots of activity aboard RN vessels including lookouts on bridge. Enemy ships are sighted; action ...

     
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    I. 'ATTACK ON A FRONTIER FORT IN LIBYA.' A combined force of British Rolls-Royce and Marmon-Herrington armoured cars penetrates the four hundred mile defensive fence on the Libyan frontier. The British artillery bombardment of Fort Maddalena. Bombing ...

     
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    I. 'WAR IN THE SUDAN.' Map shows strategic importance of Atbara and Khartoum using the Nile as a reference point. Paddle steamer and tugs on Nile, water wheels and oxen in bygone days of peace. Commentary outlines Mussolini's aggressive plans over ...

     
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    Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the story of a Bombay stockbroker who sells his shares and evacuates the city because of false rumours of aerial ...

     
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    Depicts the pageant held on 4th June 1940 at the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School, Mbereshi, to celebrate the coming of Christ into the lives of girls and women in Africa.

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School at Mbereshi, N. Rhodesia. Features missionaries Mabel Shaw and Winifred Bishop.

     
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    Depicts scenes from Festival week at the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School, Mbereshi, to celebrate the first 25 years of the School's life and also to mark the departure of missionary Mabel Shaw after 25 years of service.

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at the Boys' Boarding School, Mbereshi, N. Rhodesia - a teacher training school and upper standard school for boys. Features Rev. R. H. Sabin, Rev. Griffith Quick, Rev. T. Cocker-Brown.

     
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    Depicts life at the London Missionary Society's mission station at Aird Hill, at the western end of south east Papua, on the Kikori river. Includes footage of the Aird Hill Technical School, sago making, and a trip on the 'Tamate' launch to Urama, Mate ...

     
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    Features the launch 'Tamate', named after the London Missionary Society missionary James Chalmers, stationed at the Society's mission station at Aird Hill at the western end of south east Papua, on the Kikori River. Depicts a trip on the 'Tamate' along ...

     
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    Depicts life in Port Moresby, Papua, including the history of the London Missionary Society mission and its pioneer missionaries, and the current life of the mission.

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society on Mailu amongst the Dimugu people.

     
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    Glimpses of London Missionary Society stations in the South Pacific obtained by the Rev. Norman Goodall (on deputation, 1939-40?). Includes Upolu and Apia in Samoa, Rarotonga in the Cook islands, Niue, Ronorono, Beru in the Gilbert Islands, Funafuti in ...

     
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    Germany

    I. Consequences of breakdown in Anglo-French relations for military situation in North Africa. Captured British film of Army exercises in Egypt, showing artillery practice, camel troops and Indian soldiers ("mercenaries from all over the world") ...

     
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    Italy

    The first two reels of a record of the Italian conquest of British Somaliland.

    Maps illustrate the strategic importance of the area to Britain. Film of the desert terrain show the harsh conditions in which the ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Monochrome views of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon filmed in late 1939, showing a French light cruiser identified by Blundell as the Duguay-Trouin at anchor off Hong Kong harbour and the elderly Canadian Pacific passenger liner RMS ...

     
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    The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large open-air swimming pool and Aero-plages (sand-yachts) on the beach. Scenes from the Grandes Fte de Fleurs in Le Touquet including a group of young ...

     
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    King George VI and Queen Elizabeth review a parade of RAF personnel in the main street of a small English town.

    The unedited film shows the arrival of the King and Queen; they review the parade, pausing to talk to ...

     
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    Edited and titled amateur film showing episodes in the life of the Royal Horse Guards at the beginning of the war and their transportation to Palestine, February 1940.

    This film is again part ...