START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 17 September 1940 on the bridge of HMS Kent in the eastern Mediterranean showing Royal Navy officers wearing tropical uniforms and British steel helmets on duty in bright sunshine; among them is a US Navy officer, ...
No credits available. Titles show dates only - probable that a commentary was intended to be read alongside film. Depicts the history of the mission ships used by the London Missionary Society in the Pacific islands and Papua, from the beginning of the ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least three giant sea turtles caught for food by the crew of HMS Kent and the waterfront at Male', the main population centre in the island group, ...
Life and industries in Nigeria.
Home movie shot apparently of the Staffordshire Yeomanry at Metulla and Tiberias in 1940.
There is film of a horse-jumping display and of street scenes in Metulla and Tiberias. There are various shots of the cavalry ...
Local fisherman in ocean surf. Benares. The approach by rail over river bridge. Ritual bathers in the river and crowds on the city river banks
Calcutta with moored cargo ships and fishing in the harbour. Construction of the ...
Lucknow. Approach to Charbagh railway station. Views of White domed temple and white mosque with twin minaret towers. Fisherman stripped to waist fishing from boat in middle of river. Young local men in kilt and tartan
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Family outdoor New Year Party. Cavalcade of the Nepalese PM along Calcutta city river bank. Troop of Indian lancers at Race meeting. Ferry boat trip and frontage of River Hoogly at Calcutta. Botanical Gardens at Calcutta. Road and ...
Stables on edge of large town built on hilside with modern buildings spread over the hills and mosque in distance. Street market selling colourful clothes. Waterfall and road bridge in high mountains
Indian Ocean coast with ...
The end of a religious meeting beneath palm trees with teenage African girls clutching books and matting cloth. Middle aged women present and an African Roman Catholic priest. Groups of African parents with their infant children in ...
START 00:00:00 Colour shots filmed on 20 July 1940 showing HMS Queen of Bermuda, a 22,500-ton ex-Furness Bermuda passenger liner now serving as an armed merchant cruiser for the Royal Navy, during a refit at Durban, South Africa, as HMS Kent slowly ...
Narrative story of two children, Betty and Bob, who visit the offices of the London Missionary Society in London (Livingstone House) and use the library and archives to discover the story of the LMS. Film aimed at a young audience.
Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records harbour scenes in Singapore, tin dredging in Kuala Lumpur, open tin mine at Hong Fatt and car ...
Part I: Gurkhas in basic training; negotiating obstacle course; of fire and a ravine. Transporting lorry across river on raft; men cross river by swimming with rifles.
Part II: Transporting kit across river; by floating on sticks and by pushing ...
"Kai Yuan" (10 April 1940): camera focuses on tribespeople in distinctive costume trading with Chinese in the walled city. Long shot coverage over Chinese shoulders of the public execution by shooting of two alleged spies by soldiers of the Chinese ...
Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Chu Hsiung scenes during his tour of French Indo-China, China and ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Bombay street scenes, Colombo and wife and two sons on beach at Mount Lavinia, Ceylon, ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records tourist and family scenes in Hong Kong, including busy street life, the harbour area, ...
A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He is ordained and despite being beaten by villagers he wins over his family who themselves are ...
An Afrikaner farmer and his African farm hands drive a team of twelve oxen from Capetown to the interior. Their progress is contrasted with the journey from Capetown to Johannesburg by van train and aeroplane.
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I. Prague Trade Fair. Economic success of German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is demonstrated at Prague Trade Fair. Interior scenes include an electric train, while outside visitors inspect a locomotive.
II. Hitler Youth rowing and ...
I. Tientsin.
British soldiers detrain on the quayside and form up before embarking on the Tak Sang out of Hong Kong. Surrender of Britain to Japanese pressure to evacuate this Far Eastern garrison is described as a ...
No title or credits. Depicts voyages of the London Missionary Society's mission ship, John Williams VI, in the Pacific Islands and Australia.
Scenes at Purbeck Lodge and Government House, Naini Tal 1938; Lucinda with servants; New House, Lucknow, 1939, and garden show; boy scout ceremony at Government House, Allahabad. Sir Harry Haig's farewell party at Government House ...
