Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), arrives in Singapore for a tour of inspection.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, ...
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), arrives in Singapore for a tour of inspection.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, ...
Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), arrives in Singapore for a tour of inspection, and visits a number of infantry ...
Unedited rushes. Palestine sequence.
A film which shows the primitive conditions of the people of the northern region of the Gold Coast. It shows how a government plant to improve the cattle is working with the co-operation of the people.
A general review of Malaya, which seems to be a double battleground, containing a fight against Communism and a struggle to unite its diverse races into one, po litical economic nation.
A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, you can prevent the spread of the disease.
Footage from the Battle of Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), including mortar and artillery fire, infantry ...
Chinese refugees flee the fighting in Sourabaya (Surabaya/Soerabaja) in eastern Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
On a street in Surabaya a ...
"FIGHTING LEPROSY IN INDIA: THE WORK AT DICHPALI". "ARRIVING AT DICHPALI STATION". Group of men sitting under Dichpali signpost. Crowd waits for train, train arrives. "THE ENTRNCE TO THE LEPER HOME". Exterior gateway, two natives walking, ...
Incomplete version (the beginning is missing) of a film about the return home of Fijian soldiers who took part in the Pacific War.
Scenes of peacetime Fijian life cut with record of the Fijian soldiers advancing on ...
"HITTING THE BEACH." Launch of LST, similar to type used in amphibious landings against Axis (Sicily, Salerno?). LSTs are loaded in Mediterranean port with armour and troops; pontoons lowered for off-shore landings. Amphibious ...
As 32nd Indian Infantry Brigade, of ...
A fire blazes at the petrol dump of Kallang Airport, Singapore, and firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
Large petrol fire burning at night ...
RAF Republic Thunderbolt fighter-bombers use napalm against Kangaw, and firebombs are tested at Cox's Bazaar, India (Bangladesh).
Kangaw, on ...
A firepower demonstration near Imphal including mortar and shell fire, smoke screens and bombing by RAF Hawker Hurricanes.
Footage of a ...
At Yindaw, Burma, 7.2-inch howitzers of 8th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, are seen firing on Japanese positions.
Series of medium close-ups ...
Wide shot showing a jetty at Seletar naval base with a boat tied up alongside. On the jetty sacks of rice are unloaded from a lorry and put aboard a small boat. Close-ups of two ...
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 ...
In Bangkok, capital of Siam (Thailand) the SS Pangan arrives carrying a cargo of 21,240-yard consignment of Indian cloth, the first to reach Bangkok ...
The Ground Nut Scheme in Africa by the United Africa Company.
Scenes from the service conducted by His Lordship the Bishop of Accra at Bukom Square, Accra, Ghana.
Unedited takes of fishing and fishermen in Kenya.
There are several sequences divided by makeshift 'slates'. (1) Static shot of natural harbour (river ?) with fishermen bringing their boat ashore. (2) Local people ...