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

Gurkha troops are seen on the march ...

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

At Kanbalu, on the railway line to ...

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

Gurkha infantry of 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, seen entering the town of Pegu (Bago) during IV Corps' advance ...

Gaskell Collection

Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots are made, fired and taken to market for sale. A family buys a pot and takes it home for use.

Production / Donor ...

Gaskell Collection

Film shows a model steam engine; tin-mining on the plateau of Northern Nigeria; the Governor of Nigeria arriving at Kaduna, reviewing troops and laying foundation stone for the new House of Assembly for the Northern Region; a sala ...

Gifford Collection

General river traffic of all types. Large ocean liner (perhaps fire damaged) docking. River scenes showing warehouses and wharf with ancient crane.

Social excursion on small boat or yacht and then a more extended trip. ...

Gifford Collection

Family scenes in the UK while on leave in the late 1930s and 1940s.

India street scenes with monkey trainer and rickshaw .Smartly dressed Europeans in a park setting with expensive large cars. Celebration party for Indian ...

Gill Collection

Records footage of the various members of Mr Gill's staff, European and African, who worked in the Public Works Department of what is now the North-West Province of the Cameroon Republic.

It includes sequences of the maintenance ...

Gill Collection

Records the journey and experiences of a team of engineers from the Public Works Departments of Western, Eastern and Federal Nigeria at a Road Conference in Kenya.

Production / Donor Details: Mr Gill was a Provincial ...

Golding Collection

1. Views of game in Tanganyika.

2. Dambuilding in Nzega and tribal 'turnout', Tanganyika. 1956-1958.

3. Nzega Agricultural Show, Tanganyika.

4. Film of Nzega District Agricultural Show (Wannamwezi Tribe).

5. ...

Golding Collection

6. Film of a Masai parade, possibly for the Governor's visit in 1953-4.

7. Various views of Tanganyika.

8.?

9. Pangani 1951. Tanga Province, Tanganyika. 10. Arrival at Dar es Salaam 1952; Governors visit to Masasi ...

Burma (probably Rangoon), 11 February 1942. The Governor of Burma, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, walks with Major General A V T Wakely and his officers in a wooded area past a small wooden building. Dorman-Smith and General Wakely walk past a small group ...

Palestine

DOCUMENTARY. The work of the Hadassah Medical Organisation (sponsored by the Women's Zionist Organisation of America) in Palestine, particularly during World War II. The Hadassah Organisation brings American techniques to help the Jewish ...

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

Local peasants harvest rice in paddy fields in the Jitra area of Kedah, northern Malaya.

Fast pan around a paddy field. A civilian steps out of ...

Great Britain

Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and the women are shown at their separate labours at home and in the fields. Included are scenes of harvesting, fishing, food ...

Japan

German sub-titled version of a Japanese film using a combination of documentary and feature material to cover the training of a Japanese Naval Air Force (JNAF) cadet prior to the attacks on Pearl Harbor and on the ...

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

RAF 42 Squadron are briefed before a sortie from Onbauk forward airstrip, near Shwebo, Burma.

Taxiing RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter-bombers kick ...

USA

The work of the Central Hospital, Elat, Cameroun, especially its care for lepers. The case of Moses Mvondo is followed from his father leaving him at the hospital to his cure three years later.

GB

The 59th (Newfoundland) Heavy Regiment RA in action outside Antwerp in support of 53rd (Welsh) Division's operations on the Albert Canal.

A nine-man detachment from the regiment's No. 23 Battery is seen preparing a ...

FILM FLASHESGB

I. 'Sydney'. Governor General, Duke of Gloucester, takes the salute at a march past in support of the Third Victory Loan - participants in the parade include Royal Navy, Australian army and RAAF, VADs and WRNS.

II. 'War Bond Hats'. ...

Great Britain

West Indians serving in Britain during World War II talk about their work in the armed forces and in civilian life.

Rl. 1. In a BBC sound studio, Una Marson opens a broadcast to the West Indies and introduces West Indians who talk ...

Great Britain

A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.

Over footage of a beach, scrolling titles introduce the film. 'The colonies are the responsibility of the British ...

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 WARGB

Footage with live sound taken at ...

Great Britain

Motorcycle sports newsreel.

i) Sunbeam Point-To-Point A Scramble At Longmoor, Hants. Scenes from the annual motorcycle scramble at Longmoor Heath in Hampshire in 1948. Describes the course layout and the aims of scramble courses. ...

India

PROPAGANDA. The way in which Indian hill tribes make contributions to the War effort.

An annual religious festival accompanied by music and dancing is something the hillmen look forward to with pleasure (182). The years between the ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

A Japanese man (in military-style clothing) attempts to open a damaged safe? amongst the rubble in Hiroshima. A British naval officer (possibly Hodgkinson's friend Frank Worth) climbs a stairway. He looks ...

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

Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, Governor of Ceylon, visits Kandy in central Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Wide and high shot with a group of Boy Scouts 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

As part of his tour of Bombay (Mumbai, ...

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

The Maharajah of Manipur's official dancers perform for airmen of the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force.

A young, female, Manipuri ...

GB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The cruiser Aurora with the King on board sails into Grand Harbour, Valletta. Field Marshal Viscount Gort leaves the Customs House steps and boards the Admiral's barge. The King arrives alongside the ...

TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

Commander Kearans receives gifts from the Governor.

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. HMS Ceylon in port at Colombo. MS of Reverend Stephenson, the ship's chaplain, talking with Ceylonese dignitaries - Mr Mamujee, Mr de Silva and Mr Corea. Royal Marine band plays. MS pan right to left across ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Reel One. Task Group 111.3 at sea. LS from cameraship HMS Colossus to task group in line ahead - nearest ship is HMS Argonaut. HA.MS as Corsair 17 comes up on forward elevator. Corsair 114 is manhandled aft. ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. LS-MS broad on the port quarter of HIJMS Hatsuzakura. Cameraship is underway in line ahead with USS Missouri and USS Iowa off the Japanese coast - aircraft circle overhead. HMS Whelp (D.33) closes, and a ...

MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

HMS Furious returns to Gibraltar carrying survivors from HMS Eagle, sunk during the Malta supply convoy Operation Pedestal.

Good MS off the starboard bow of HMS Furious as ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

HMS Glory leaves Grand Harbour, Valletta.

HA of HMS Glory as she leaves Malta, steaming left to right past the camera. The crew man the side, with Sea Furies parked abreast the island, and ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Ships of the Eastern Fleet pass in MS-MLS - HMS Devonshire, HMS Warspite, HMS Gambia (?), HMS Resolution, HMAS Nizam (G.38), the Hunt Class destroyer HMS Catterick (L.81).

II. Scenes onboard HMS ...

GB

Lord Mountbatten with family and friends swimming and skin-diving from a launch.

There are also some shots of them boarding the launch from a warship (HMS Surprise?) and of local fishermen at work in harbour ( ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.

Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...