POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Chartered aircraft crash in Malta, February 1956: general view of wreckage showing personnel clearing debris.

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WORLD CINEMAIndia

A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's cousin, with whom she builds up a world of their own.

HONG KONG BEAT

Second in a series of nine programmes showing the work of the Royal Hong Kong Police, filmed over a three month period during the summer of 1977. The heroin drug trade.

AMATEUR. Film of refugee and flood rescue operations in Burma.

Chaukan I. Diyum River. Flood rescues; elephants; Captain Whitehouse rescue. Rossiter family rescue.

Chaukan II. Namgoi Nuk. Rescue operations of refugees coming from Burma by ...

Great Britain

Residents of a Cheshire Home in Singapore shown in various activities, especially crafts, e.g., toy-making.

GB

Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.

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

Indian Engineers at work building a pontoon bridge. Pushing out ...

Nigeria

ACTUALITY. Local chieftains at an official function in Nigeria.

FAMILY OF MAN

Film illustrating the differences and similarities of adult-children relationships across five different communities: Esher in Surrey, Colne in Lancashire, New Guinea, Botswana and the people of the Himalayan Foothills. The film examines ...

Great Britain

Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and some blind children are shown.

India

INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the tribesman (87), close-up of a Gond tribesman with axe and spear (92), items such as opium, amulet, pipes which the tribesman ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

A party for British children onboard HMS Forth, submarine depot ship at Malta.

LA.LS from quayside to HMS Forth alongside - a huge Father Christmas figure has been erected as if in the act of ...

GB

A sympathetic look at "the storm centre of the war in the Far East".

Reel 1 explains China's geography and culture, concentrating on 20th century history of efforts by Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-shek to modernise ...

TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

ABOUT BRITAIN [ITV, 1970-1988]

Documentary about a small town business in the Scottish borders that exports cashmere sweaters to Hong Kong.

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

Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, possibly in Chungking. A group of four ...

CAPTAIN GARNETT COLLECTIONGB

Home movie of HMS Decoy and Delight on the China Station, visiting Shanghai and Swatow, in the summer of 1938.

In the summer of 1938 Captain Garnett (then Lieutenant) was temporarily ...

CAPTAIN GARNETT COLLECTIONGB

Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring scenes in and around Hong Kong, early 1938.

The film begins with street scenes in Hong Kong and a sequence of children playing at a ...

GB

"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 ...

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

Men of 14th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), having been evacuated by air from Burma are seen at a rest camp at Tinsukia (in Assam, India) ...

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

Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near Lahore, India (Pakistan).

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

Chinese troops of New First Army, veterans of the Burma campaign, board American landing ships at Kowloon docks in Hong Kong for transport to Manchuria ...

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

Chinese Air Force trainees undergoing ...

FIRST TUESDAYGreat Britain

Series of programmes which feature a variety of documentaries from the UK and abroad.

A legend of an emperors' love for a young man which turned Hong Kong's legislature in favour of homosexuality.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A party of high-ranking Chinese officers visit Malta on their way to Britain.

The party includes Major General Wang Pia Chenk, General Yang Chieh, Colonel Hoo Kwang Shee ...

China

Fund-raising film for the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps includes scenes of the Hong Kong Bureau's Supply and Transportation Departments, preparation and packing of medical supplies for shipping by Truck Ambulances to Changsha, evacuation of ...

Great Britain

The story of an African boy born in a village in Northern Rhodesia that is revolutionised by the growth of the Copperbelt industry.

The commentator introduces the story over a map, with the title 'Northern Rhodesia 1902'. 'At the ...

Film on the Copper Belt region of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), specifically the interaction of Christianity and commerce in this region and the work of the United Mission to the Copper Belt (in which the London Missionary society was a partner). The ...

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

Footage of a Christmas church service held for a Royal Artillery unit, probably in northern Burma.

Gunners at a church service; at the front of ...

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

Footage of a Christmas church service being conducted in the field, probably for troops of 36th Division in northern Burma, December 1944.

Shots ...

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

The men of 5th Infantry Brigade headquarters (2nd Division) enjoy Christmas festivities at Yazagyo, north of Kalemyo in Burma.

A banner reads ' ...

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

Footage of Christmas festivities of 25th Indian Division in the coastal Arakan region of Burma in December 1944.

Men singing; some are wearing the ...

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 WARUnited States of America

Somewhere in the ...

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

Footage of Christmas festivities being conducted in the field by troops of 36th Division in northern Burma, December 1944.

Close-up of a British ...

GB

Film on the role played by British forces in Cyprus, focusing on the balance between celebrations and the need to continue operations against EOKA.

Men of the 1st Battalion the Royal Ulster Regiment land from the ...

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

British soldiers of XV Corps celebrate Christmas 1944 on the Teknaf Peninsula on the Indo-Burma border.

A man leaves a tent; he carries a bugle. ...

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

On Christmas Day 1945 a party of around 70 Dutch and Chinese children are welcomed aboard the Royal Navy Harbour Repair Ship HMS Assistance, anchored ...

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

Film apparently taken in northern Burma showing preparations for Christmas in December 1944, by men of 36th Division.

View over a supply dump in ...

Great Britain

The visit of Winston Churchill to Jamaica in January 1953.

The film opens with the arrival of Winston Churchill at Montego Bay airport on Friday 9 January 1953 on board the 'Independence', the personal plane of the President of the ...