Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilcox on 26 March 1946: Lord Killearn and an unidentified officer walking in the grounds of Government House, Singapore. Killearn and other delegates pose ...
Sir Miles Lampson, Lord Killearn, Special Commissioner to South East Asia, arrives at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is greeted by Lord Mountbatten ( ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, makes a tour of inspection of Army and Royal Marine Commando units in Hong Kong ...
Layard family riding in the countryide. Formal picnic with servants & parked official car. Europeans on duck shoot. Indian Hindu dancers performing watched by Europeans. Moving household furniture by van.
Production / ...
Unedited record, variably exposed and framed, shows Indian Army troops of 59 Rajputana General Purpose Transport Company of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC) queuing for rations and on parade during the visit of their ruler (not visible) to ...
Amateur film by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: family scenes and hunting parties.
Amateur film made by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: miscellaneous footage of the Maharajah's procession through his domains, and betrothal ceremonies.
Amateur film by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: a procession through the Maharajah's domains, review of the fleet in c1936, and family footage.
Footage from a Malaya Command athletics competition held at Kuala Lumpur, with senior military and civil figures in attendance.
Various views of ...
In Hong Kong, British and Indian troops of the so-called 'Brindjap' force, bound for the occupation of Japan, mount a march past.
High shot ...
Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building in Singapore, and the salute is ...
Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building in Singapore, and the salute is ...
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land. Solo pianist: Eileen Joyce.
Men of Two Worlds was released only in 1946, but had its ...
Reel 1: River traffic near a rice mill; a tall chimney smokes in the background. People carrying baskets of rice from boats. Scooping rice up from the hold. People carrying baskets ...
In Singapore Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, inspects men of the Royal Navy's Force W, part of the amphibious force that ...
Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, presents a captured Japanese artillery piece to the people of Singapore.
A Japanese ...
Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, presents a captured Japanese artillery piece to the people of Singapore.
Spectators. ...
Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, presents a captured Japanese artillery piece to the people of Singapore.
Lieutenant- ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.
Mountbatten gets out of a ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.
View from a high vantage ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.
Wide shot; at Mingaladon ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.
Mountbatten and Air Marshal ...
At Myitnge, on a tributary of the River Irrawaddy, Burma, the Royal Indian Engineers work to complete a major bridgebuilding project.
View looking ...
(1) Bathing party
(2) Swimming pool (3) Yelwa Pool
(4) Rwang Pwan(?)
(5) Little Rayfield Garden
Production / Donor Details: The films in the Morrison Collection were shot by William Graham Morrison, who went ...
Village life in Sudan.
Aerial shots of the Nile are followed by scenes of a negro tribe and of a native village. The remainder of the film gives glimpses of some of the negro villagers' activities - cattle rearing, fish spearing, in ...
In Bangkok Indian Engineers construct a ferry to convey railway locomotives to the east bank of the Chao Phraya river.
View of a railway bridge ...
At Singapore's Cathay Building Lord Killearn, special commissioner, leads a conference to discuss food shortages in south and south east Asia, with a ...
Footage from the opening of the Singapore War Crimes Trials.
Interior footage of the courtroom; man speaking (prosecution counsel?). Looking down ...
Reel 1: Footage of the courtroom with sound, including testimony from Colonel Maguire regarding the conditions onboard the Thames Maru, the reading of affidavits (probably by ...
In Pegu, Burma, a club for Viceroy's Commissioned Officers is opened by the commander of 454 Sub-Area, Colonel A B R Leech.
Leech passes a guard ...
The first trials of Japanese war criminals at Singapore get underway.
General view of the courtroom with the accused filing into the dock; one ...
At Toungoo, Burma, Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of RAF 62 Squadron are loaded with sacks of rice for a supply mission to inaccessible regions of ...
In Rangoon, capital of Burma, thousands of Japanese surrendered personnel board an American ship for repatriation, as part of Operation Nip-Off.
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Reel 1: 14 March 1946, at 1530 hours: looking aft as the cameraman's vessel, Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) 7063, leaves the jetty at Penang, Malaya. Water churning at the stern. ...
Sponge fishing in Bahames; model yacht racing & swimming gala at Scarborough; juvenile orchestra play Tchaikovsky.
Recruiting film for British volunteers for the Palestine Police illustrates the special nature of police duties in the Holy Land.
The film is intended to recommend the life of a Palestine policeman as a fulfilling ...
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...
At Batavia, capital of the Netherlands East Indies, the 1st Battalion Patiala Infantry (Indian State Forces) mount a farewell parade before returning to ...
The Singapore Police conduct searches of civilian vehicles in the vicinity of the Happy World amusement park in Singapore, four years to the day after ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens with a map of Africa with the Gold Coast specially marked. Details are then given of an experiment being carried on in ...
At the battalion lines of 1st Battalion 11th Sikh Regiment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, a number of captured Japanese swords are presented.
Lieutenant ...
In Hong Kong precautions are taken to reduce the spread of infectious diseases; the medical authorities administer vaccinations, the Hong Kong Police ...
Indian troops of 9th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment arrive at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, after a complex transshipping operation.
Indian troops ...
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, a race meeting is held, sponsored by headquarters Malaya Command.
Wide shot of the starting line and competitors at the ...
In Rangoon, Burma, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) led by Aung San, holds a national conference near the Shwedagon Pagoda.
Crowd ...
In Rangoon, Burma, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) led by Aung San, holds a national conference near the Shwedagon Pagoda.
A road ...
A reconnaissance in force is made to the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), with the support of tanks and ...
