Amateur film by Major Edwin Chapman-Andrews, with full descriptive titles, shot while based on the staff of the C-in-C Middle East as Liaison Officer with Emperor Haile Selassie .

Film covers the campaign by static ...

INTEREST. An account of the Air Transport Auxiliary which provides personnel to fly newly completed aircraft from factory to service airfield.

Rl.1 Credits (69). The commentary explains that hundreds of aircraft have to be ...

Leslie Howard explains to three Dominion soldiers why the Empire is at war.

The soldiers - from Australia, Canada and New Zealand - meet in Trafalgar Square, where a gushing lady commends them for "answering the ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle East, General Auchinleck, arrives at Nicosia Aerodrome, Cyprus. Plane landing, Hurricane escort. The General alights from the plane and is greeted by ...

AYY 157/1. 3 Oct 1941. Shots taken en route with reinforcement convoy and the first sights of Gibraltar. Troops sunbathing and playing "housie housie". Spanish frontier scenes. Police examining papers ...

25 pounders going forward along flooded road in Malaya. Troops advancing through rubber plantation. Refugees from Penang arrive at Ipoh railway station and receive food and drink from mobile canteen.

A view of the Empire's Navies, in peace and war, designed to emphasise their size and power, worldwide distribution, and fighting character (in explicit contrast to Axis navies).

An interesting attempt is made to ...

Zionist settlements in Palestine.

A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).

Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training (morse by flag, heliograph, shutter etc.); medical care; post office; pay; ...

A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and personnel strength.

Heavy (RN ?) warships at sea; the sloop HMIS Indus in the pool of London (by Tower Bridge); a parade; new ...

Film made by the Indian Film Unit. Indian troops at Damascus, Syria. Entry of General Catroux. Named Free French officers. French cavalry, damaged buildings, etc.

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Remarks: sent by ...

General Maitland Wilson visits 7th Indian Brigade, 4/11th Sikhs, at Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt. Soldiers putting up tents in desert camp. Bren gun and anti tank rifle instruction. Camp barber at work. Slit ...

Indian infantry moving across the desert carrying out practice operations at Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt. Shots of General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson watching operations.

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This is Roll 4 of a ...

A tour of Martinique, Trinidad, Barbados and Tobago.

Amateur travel film.

[From notes supplied by archive donor:]

Sind Valley, Nishat Bagh, Vale of Kashmir, Dal Lakes, Chasmi Bagh, Jhelum river.

Amateur travel film.

[From notes supplied by archive donor:]

Road Journey to Srinager, seen from the Takt, seen from the Jhelum river, Dal Lakes, Shalimar Gardens, Trout Hetcheries, Nagmag, Leaving Pahlgam, Lidar Valley, to the Amarnath ...

Bus marked "Nanga Ways" (possibly a reference to the high Kashmir peak Nanga Parbat ?) is loaded prior to departing. In Kashmir: boats of various descriptions (including houseboats) on the Dal Lake by Srinagar. Shots of local houses. Kashmiris ...

A traveller back from Palestine shows his films to his friends, commenting on th e scenes shown and the way in which they illustrate the Biblical stories and esp ecially the life and sayings of Jesus.

The story of the liberation of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) after its invasion by Mussolini's Italian forces. Covers events from the formation of the Patriot Army which helped the British Army to drive out the Italians, ...

INTEREST. Scenes of official and unofficial engagements during Lord Linlithgow's term of office as Viceroy of India.

R.1 (NEPAL) - 1938. Tiger-hunting in Nepal as guests of the Maharaja; the base was a camp on the India-Nepal border. From a ...

Footage begins at Gateway to India, with other excellent shots of Bombay.

Extended coverage of Old and New Delhi including a parade outside Viceroy's House, then Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.

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Excellent footage of India beginning in Bombay and ending in Calcutta. Including

street and market scenes, famous buildings, countryside and villages, railways, beaches and rivers. A train journey in Southern India.

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Excellent footage of India beginning in Bombay and ending in Calcutta. Including

street and market scenes, famous buildings, countryside and villages, railways, beaches and rivers.

Production / Donor Details: ...

Excellent footage of scenes in and around Calcutta.

Production / Donor Details: The film was shot by the donor's father (who worked with British Insulated Cables in the 1930s), during his participation as a ...