Amateur film shot by Guy Wickenden shows the public life and celebrations of the British in pre-1940 Cairo, voyage home to UK in 1937, arrival of the 2nd New Zealand Division in 1941 and Wickenden's young family evacuated ...

(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.

(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South America, stopping in Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Chile, through Panama Canal to Curaao, Trinidad and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amateur film, presumably shot by an officer of the East or South Lancashire Regiment serving in India, shows servants and colourful flowers in English-style garden ("Our Garden"), overlooking sea or lake. Opening sequence of tropical sunset may be ...

START 00:00:00 17:33 Under-exposed travelling shot from a train from Colombo to hill country south of Kandy. At Kadugannawa, a Sri Lankan railway porter pulls traveller's luggage etc on a large hand cart. The sign on the station platform for ...

START 00:00:00 Kodak Safety Film logo. A road sign in Arabic and in French for Alexandria. Date palms. Dark shots of a man making spaghetti over a hot plate in a shop.

00:02:08 Alexandria: Egyptian dockyard workers stand next to a tear in HMS ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Royal Engineer Lieutenant Archibald ("Archie") Jack of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners records mainly off-duty scenes of the Regiment while at Roorkee, United Provinces, ...

"Shamshun - Japanese on the frontier": Chinese porters pass to and fro along and beside railway tracks, partially blocked by sandbagging and barbed wire on British side of frontier. British officer walks forward to meet his Japanese Army counterpart ...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 his two young sons swimming in ship and shore pools, view across Hong Kong harbour, the ...

Reel 1: Long shots of village. Long shots of communal washing and drying area. Close up view of a dog. General view of a statue. General views of a town, people, traffic, streets and statues. General views of people in a public park. General views of ...

"The Thaw Asiatic Expedition presents INDIA. Produced by Lawrence Copley Thaw. In the new Magnacolor. Copyright MCMXL. Trans Asia, Inc. All Rights Reserved"

The film begins with a short text celebrating India's cultural ...

Reel 1: (Can - Yadanaku Pwe 1941) "Regatta at Yedanaku 1941" Sign to Ava Bridge 9 miles. Ox carts transport parts of Karaweik Paung mythical bird for subsequent assembly on a backwater of the River Irrawaddy near Amarapura when the river was in full ...

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 ...

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 ...

Large contingent of Royal West African Frontier Force arrive in India by ship.

Various scenes of their travelling by train precede scenes of their arrival.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...