BRITISH NEWS

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include MALTA RECEIVES THE GEORGE CROSS THE BOSTON BOMBER AIR RAIDS IN JAPAN ARCTIC VOYAGE SCHOOL FOR BATTLE

Unedited rushes filmed in Lagos, Takoradi and Kano (West African Convoy Route).

Airport- troops emplaning-mail/ General De Gaulle Scenes.

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I. "The Promise of 1942." Survey of major political and military developments of 1942 which started inauspiciously with the loss of Singapore (peacetime views and evacuation of civilians) and ended encouragingly with success in North Africa and the ...

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British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.

Opening titles "Burma. A War Correspondent's Despatch. Film and Story by Maurice Ford". A ...

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"Hurricanes find new way to Suez."

"Coloured boys supervised by white men" construct an airfield in the jungle near a West African port (name censored). Film shows felling of trees, screening of soil, rolling, tar- ...

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Prior to his recent death in an air crash, General Orde Wingate receives SEAC Commander Mountbatten at his training base in India for Chindit operations behind Japanese lines in Burma.

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

Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently liberated from Japanese captivity at Rangoon jail, are seen boarding a ship at Rangoon docks for evacuation to ...

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START 10:45:42 Mr Robinson, a British settler living in Limuru near Nairobi, strolls out of his farm house onto the lawn, lights up a cigarette and surveys his property from the garden fence. He is joined by his wife and together they return to the ...

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Red and white flag of the Indonesian republic flying. Graffiti reads 'Freedom the glory of any nation'. Small pieces of paper on a wall read 'Our government is a government from ...

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

As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...

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

British troops of ...

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

In northern Burma, ...

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A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines and a local Chinese team.

General Festing, ...

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

In Singapore on New Year's Day 1946, a treaty is concluded between Australia, Britain and Siam (Thailand), formally ending hostilities and allowing ...

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(Reel 1) Hurricane Mk Is of 111 Squadron at Northolt, 1939-1940. Fighter pilots practise air to air wireless communication by riding bicycles, fitted with radio sets in front of handle bars, across tarmac at Northolt. Experiment/training is watched ...

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

West African Engineers construct a ferry over the Kalapanzin River in the Arakan region of Burma.

African troops of 82nd West African resting in ...

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

Reel 1: A small motor launch draws alongside a troopship. A Major climbs a staircase up to the deck followed by a Major-General. Talking to a Military Policeman. The general is ...

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A compilation of film of factory production of war material in Britain and throughout the Empire.

A minimal degree of continuity is provided by film of King George VI visiting various factories; also much use is made ...

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Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...

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Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.

Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...

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Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.

Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed ...

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High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in ...

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Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Miles Arrindell of the Second Battalion Suffolk Regiment records scenes during the Battle of Imphal, including a Japanese prisoner-of-war and the capture of the Isaac feature (June 1944), and later (after transfer to ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Aerial shots, mills and river, serial shots, airfield, pagoda, platations. Landing airfield, Austor taxiing, wreckage of plant. Cu Burma rifles shoulder flashes troops through jungle. Kachin Levies ...