Amateur film by Major Edwin Chapman-Andrews, with full descriptive titles, shot while based on the staff of the C-in-C Middle East as Liaison Officer with Emperor Haile Selassie .

Film covers the campaign by static ...

INTEREST. An account of the Air Transport Auxiliary which provides personnel to fly newly completed aircraft from factory to service airfield.

Rl.1 Credits (69). The commentary explains that hundreds of aircraft have to be ...

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 ...

Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle East, General Auchinleck, arrives at Nicosia Aerodrome, Cyprus. Plane landing, Hurricane escort. The General alights from the plane and is greeted by ...

AYY 157/1. 3 Oct 1941. Shots taken en route with reinforcement convoy and the first sights of Gibraltar. Troops sunbathing and playing "housie housie". Spanish frontier scenes. Police examining papers ...

25 pounders going forward along flooded road in Malaya. Troops advancing through rubber plantation. Refugees from Penang arrive at Ipoh railway station and receive food and drink from mobile canteen.

A view of the Empire's Navies, in peace and war, designed to emphasise their size and power, worldwide distribution, and fighting character (in explicit contrast to Axis navies).

An interesting attempt is made to ...

Zionist settlements in Palestine.

A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).

Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training (morse by flag, heliograph, shutter etc.); medical care; post office; pay; ...

A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and personnel strength.

Heavy (RN ?) warships at sea; the sloop HMIS Indus in the pool of London (by Tower Bridge); a parade; new ...

Film made by the Indian Film Unit. Indian troops at Damascus, Syria. Entry of General Catroux. Named Free French officers. French cavalry, damaged buildings, etc.

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General Maitland Wilson visits 7th Indian Brigade, 4/11th Sikhs, at Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt. Soldiers putting up tents in desert camp. Bren gun and anti tank rifle instruction. Camp barber at work. Slit ...