START 10:15:15 An African man demonstrates how to start a fire, using a straight wooden stick and a flat section of wood similar in size and shape to a six inch ruler in which three semi-circular indentations have been made. Heat created by the ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of local life in Colombo, Gordon Gardens, fire fighters tackling an oil conflagration in the docks [either Colombo or Trincomalee, and caused by a spark from an ...
RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.
Landscape view of Kai Tak aerodrome panning to an old people's ...
Unedited rushes.
General views of Gondar, Ethiopia, including the fort with prisoners and Ras Seyoum's castle. Lieutenant-General Wetherall, Acting GOC East Africa with Major General Foulkes, GOC 12th African Division, ...
British and Indian troops in action around Cheren (Keren), Eritrea.
Troops load up trucks with supplies for the front line on a portion of railway captured from the ...
Shots from Indian Film Unit. Capture of Massawa, Eritrea. Indian troops, Italian prisoners. Garwali Regiment. Free French Commander. General Heath watches operations. Sunken vessel in harbour.
RAF photo-reconnaissance Mosquito aircraft make an accidental flight over Mount Everest and Makalu in the Himalayan mountain range.
Aircrew ...
Tour round a market place in Accra, made from COI material taken in the Gold Coast.
Japanese Lieutenant-Colonel Kazuo Kogi is taken to the site of a massacre in Hong Kong in 1943 in which he is accused of being involved.
Prison ...
Gives a picture of the daily life of men and women native students at Achimota College on the Gold Coast, with a commentary written and spoken by Dr. Julian Huxley.
Air Marshal Garrod, acting Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits RAF squadrons at forward airstrips at Tabingaung and Onbauk, Burma.
Air ...
British troops, probably of 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, take up positions at Kabo Weir on the Mu River in Burma and mount a patrol.
Men ...
RAF and US Army Air Force (USAAF) operations at and around Meiktila following its capture by British forces.
Bomb damage to buildings and ...
I. "Grand Imperial military revue." Emperor Hirohito on horseback takes salute at parade of Imperial forces (at Yoyoki ?) on 8 January. Prodigious successes in first month of war have led to collapse of Anglo-American aspirations in East Asia. ...
I. "Vision of Peace in the Philippines." Natives on Mindanao work on a hemp plantation, planted two years ago by Japanese settlers. Palms are cut, dried, bound in bales and weighed. People of Asia have for generations suffered under the domination ...
Rear-Admiral Harcourt inspects RAF detachment and chats with Wing Commander and Air Commodore. The Admiral then walks across the grass field to inspect crews fell in before their Spitfire aircraft - the nearest ...
Rear-Admiral Servaes and Captain Dick of HMS Belfast attend a service of thanksgiving in cathedral at Shanghai. The Admiral then visits the British internees at the Sacred Heart Hospital - a man demonstrates a ...
I. Rear-Admiral Servaes pays a visit to Ash Camp, the wartime internment area for British and Allied subjects in Shanghai. The Admiral, accompanied by a Lieutenant-Commander RNVR and a marine officer, shakes ...
Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port Moresby (New Guinea) and then to Dobdura airfield. Australians and Americans deplane. US First Cavalry Division forms up at ...
Unedited rushes. Filmed in Tobruk, the Western Desert and West Africa.
Includes Wellington material in Tobruk and Hurricanes in West Africa.
As troops of 5th Indian Division ...
In northern Burma, probably in the vicinity of the Shweli river north of Myitson, troops of 2nd Battalion The Buffs advance through jungle, Major- ...
Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and infrastructure around the city.
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