The situation in India in 1942.
Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in formation and dropping bombs; Indians looking up in the air for the aircraft: 'to no people has war come with more shock and ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES FOR HERSELF PRIME MINISTER AND GENERAL SMUTS AT DOVER TOUGH TACTICS CHINESE ARMY IN INDIA ...
For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. COMES HOME CAPTIVES FROM NAZI SEA RAIDER HOME TOWN GREETS AUSSIE V.C. OUTPUT OF ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN PARLIAMENT ACCLAIMS FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS
Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.
A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the first half of the Second World War.
Commentary recalls WW1 service and inter-war status as a frontier force, over shots ...
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...
India.
A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this edition devoted entirely to matters Indian by stressing the contrasts found in the landscape between ...
Gulmarg, Autumn
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its greatest danger") and determination ("Preparing for the attack which must come").
Film stresses the global nature of the war, and ...
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 ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted by elephants when they visit an ancient Buddhist temple at Kelaniya. Monks watch the procession. The Admiral ...
