BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The distribution of supplies to local Burmese people in Lingadipa, Burma.

The men of 100th Brigade 20th Indian Division bring in rice and atta ( ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Shot by Sergeant Hammond: wideshots of the game in progress, shot from the back of a lorry, giving a view over the crowd. Shots of the crowd with British and Indian soldiers ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Dutch civilians, presumably recently released from Japanese internment, play airmen of RAF Batavia at football.

Footage of the game in progress ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Sir Edward Gent, recently installed Governor of the Malayan Union, watches a football match between the British Army and a visiting team of professional ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Islanders play football against an Army team on Home Island, part of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands attol.

The game in progress. Local civilians ( ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Scenes of two football matches on the Indo-Burma border, including England versus Scotland and a local RAF team versus visitors.

An Indian ...

GB

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 ...

India

A view of Ceylon towards the end of the war, looking back over the period of defensive war, and to current preparations for the offensive.

General material on Ceylon's religions and economy (tea, rubber, rice) is ...

WORLD IN ACTIONCanada

War with Japan.

Early Japanese successes. Film of troops training. Expansion halted by US forces. Battle of Midway - US air attacks on shipping. Japan still exploits world's second largest empire. ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Following closely behind the advancing British troops in Burma the Madras Sappers and Miners build an airstrip at Ondaw to aid operations at the front ...

Great Britain

'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Indian Air Force 1 Squadron is presented with a Japanese sword in recognition for its service to Fourteenth Army.

Ceremony at squadron's ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft deliver supplies 'over the Hump' of the Himalayas from Dum Dum, India to Kunming, China to assist the Chinese ...

GB

Film opens with captions detailing the history of, and current work of, the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU). "1914-1918 Ambulance trains and motor ambulance convoys in France and Belgium. Casualty hospitals in Dunkirk and Britain. Relief work in Belgium ...

Great Britain

An industrial process film for Tate and Lyle, showing the growth and processing of sugar cane, from the fields of Jamaica to the factories of London.

Introduced with the animated image of Mr Cube announcing 'Mr Cube Presents', the ...

Great Britain

The film describes how a mission-trained Africanboy returns to his home village, having been at the mission school since a baby, to act as missionary amongst his own people.

When the Southern Rhodesian Government, anticipating an ...

GB

Leslie Howard explains to three Dominion soldiers why the Empire is at war.

The soldiers - from Australia, Canada and New Zealand - meet in Trafalgar Square, where a gushing lady commends them for "answering the ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Views of a Field Ambulance attached to ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

An edited production by the SEAC Film Unit (British) shows how 'SEAC', the newspaper of South East Asia Command, is produced and distributed to troops ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

As news of Japanese surrender reaches forward troops around Toungoo (Taungoo) in southern Burma, Gurkha, Indian and British soldiers celebrate, and a ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Offcuts. Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence ...

THIS MODERN AGEGreat Britain

The claims made by South Africa on the protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland.

The film begins by offering a historical consideration of the three territories. First, Bechuanaland, which is 'mostly ...

Fisher Collection

Things about Hong Kong: Victoria Harbour; junks and sampans; Kai Tai Airport; Kowloon peninsular; what people do for living; houses; religions; sports; agriculture; plants.