I. His Excellency Governor Wooley in his new Governors Service Uniform inspecting a company of infantry of the Cyprus Volunteer Force at Nicosia. Speech.
II. HRH The Duke of Gloucester on tour. HRH ...
Gulmarg, Autumn
I."Build new Philippines! Fight for greater East Asia! Air attacks over Hawaii!" Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Commentary announces that Nippon declared war on the USA and Great Britain on 8 December 1941; map of Pacific region. Kaga and ...
Two titled newsreel items on Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring inspecting Luftwaffe units at airbase in Southern Italy, preceding extended aerial coverage of bombing of Malta by Junkers Ju 88 and Messerschmitt Me 110 aircraft, and battle scenes on ...
AYY 193/1. 24-25 Feb and 2-12 March. Men on non-urgent work take cover in rock shelters when public sirens are sounded but the remainder work on until the Red Flag is hoisted on the Palace Tower, Fort St ...
Adventure with natives and enemy spies in darkest Africa.
A commercial for Co-op tea in the guise of a documentary about tea production.
The film shows how tea is grown, picked and selected in Ceylon, and how in wartime it has to be shipped by convoy. A women making a pot ...
Government House, Rangoon, Burma 3 February 1942. Brief shot of a Burmese policeman standing guard in the grounds. Sustained view of Government House. Shot of Union Jack flag. Panning shot over the Shwe Dragon Pagoda and over the city of Rangoon. The ...
AYY 198-5. 8 Mar. 1942. Teams of the 9th Battalion Indian Company and the Cyprus Regiment Company at Camp Polymedia line up on the playing field and the captains toss a coin. The Cypriot team have "C" on ...
Opening shot over tail of Seafire IIC (serial MB.148) parked on cameraship HMS Victorious - Force H in XLS on horizon. French cargo-passenger ship Jamaique and a companion lie beneath the cliffs at Gibraltar. LSs of HMS Furious - she signals. Hunt ...
I. "African Troops In Madagascar." African troops disembark in order to protect Britain's sea-lines and to save the island "from being bartered to the enemy by the treachery of Vichy marionettes". Fake tom tom music accompanies a view of the troops ...
I. "Italy blitzed!" Scenes of the production of "even bigger and more beautiful bombs" (filling 2000-lb casings with explosives) introduce aerial film of a night raid on Genoa. Flares and bombs explode over a wide area as the commentary justifies ...
I. "Pacific Battlefront": A tribute to the endurance of Australian troops engaged in jungle warfare in New Guinea, and to the bushboys who assist them.
II. "Further Advances in New Guinea": Australians in Papua get support from the Royal ...
I. "Three Phases of the World At War": Scenes of the Philippine Islands include damage on Luzon.
II. "Defence of the Caribbean": Interceptor Command of the Caribbean Air Force cooperates with the US Navy in defending the Panama Canal Zone, ...
Unedited material of RAF activity in Gibraltar. No combat footage.
Main subject is the Special Erection Party assembling Spitfires and test flights in mid-1942, prior to Operation Torch; for a shot by shot analysis ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I. 14 June. The Duke arrives in Bihar Province and is received by the Governor, His Excellency Sir Thomas Stewart.
II. 16 June. He visits British and Indian hospitals and also troops from Burma ...
20-27 May 1942. HRH visiting ruins at Baalbek. He is escorted by the Tcherkess Guard. HRH in Damascus. Shots taken from the car driving the Duke to La Residence, home of General Catroux. The Duke at the ...
HRH inspects Polish civilians at the Polish camp at Tehran.
HRH in a group with the British Minister.
He takes the salute of the Persian army guard of honour and inspects the guard.
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HRH emplanes at Heliopolis, Egypt, with his staff and arrives at Baghdad, Iraq. He inspects guard of honour. Shots of General Quinan (GOC 10th Army) and General Lane, AAQMG (Assistant Adjutant and ...
26 Feb 1942. Wheat bags at Port Tewfik, Egypt. Labourers carrying bags.
26 Feb 1942. Commander in Chief visiting No 8 Reinforcement Camp, Mena. Inspecting buildings and soldiers' tent. Also visits ...
