MARCH OF TIME

Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while under threat of Japanese invasion.

The film briefly outlines the various factions - in particular the ...

United States of America

"Lowell Thomas Magic Carpet of Movietone" "The Thaw Asiatic Expedition in Cinecolor" A visit to glittering Mysore. The Thaw's host, the Maharaja of Mysore, is shown around the expedition tour vehicles. Krishnaraja Sagar dam. ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Crashed Stuka plane with pilot's body burning under fuselage. Troops from the 8th Indian Brigade advance in the background with a Bren carrier. Close up of burning body.

Italian POW being escorted ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Physical training exercises at Mena Camp, Egypt. Wrestling. Troops doing handsprings and back rolls. Sergeant Instructor J Robinson giving the command. Exercises on vaulting horse and weight putting. ...

GB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Exercise at Mombasa, Kenya.

121 Force scale the cliff face, defended by the King's African Rifles. Lieutenant-Colonel M M Alston-Roberts-West is commanding the 2nd ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...

Japan

Compilation covers the Japanese raid on Ceylon and occupation scenes on Guam and Wake Island in the Pacific.

Carrier force at sea. Mitsubishi A6M2 is pushed on deck. Japanese pilots on board an aircraft carrier ...

Japan

Compilation uses stock shot material to cover sinking of British Force Z off Malaya and actuality of airborne capture of Celebes and air attack on Allied fleet off Java.

Main title reads "Naval warfare off Malaya. ...

Japan

Compilation shows the Japanese attack on and occupation of New Guinea, the bombing of Darwin, the occupation of the Andaman Islands and the carrier action off Colombo.

"Capture of New Guinea". Japanese task force ...

Burma

I. Long shots of explosions and a fire in a paddy field, filmed from behind some trees. Another view over paddy fields panning past a set of football goal posts.

II. Atmospheric, semi-silhouette dawn shots by the lake at Meiktila, showing ...

Japan

Documentary on Japanese advance through Malaya, attack on Singapore, British surrender and Japanese victory parade.

Heavily laden medium tank Type 97, CHI-HA with palm leaf camouflage advances along road flanked ...

Burma, late January-early February 1942. Shots of parts of a crashed Japanese bomber. Four civilians carrying part of the crashed aircraft wing. Group of civilians crowded around the dead body of a Japanese airman. The body lies partially clothed on ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Ski training at Les Cedares, Lebanon. Skiing troops. Indian Mule Corps and their bagpipe band on the march and in mountain passes.

Notes

Query les Cedares (Les Cdres ?)

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

AYY 190/1. 19 January 1942. Officers of the 76th Anti-tank regiment, 1st Armoured Division discussing operations, north of Wadi Faragh. Armoured car at an observation post overlooking "Rommel's Ridge". ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Major General Pienaar at the Headquarters of the 1st South African Division at Gazala, Libya, giving an interview to war correspondents. They include Alan Moorhead of the Daily Express, Alex Clifford of ...

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

An ambiguous piece of undocumented ...

Layard Collection

Family domestic holiday scenes in India. Big camp in desert with camel trains. Visit to Kashmir and its lakes.Himalayan landscapes. Family holiday on the coast of Brittany

Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot ...

Layard Collection

Offical residence with organisation of servants. The Layard girls & ponies & playing. Agricultural show .Coutryside scenes with bullocks, camel as draught animals. Tented camp with boys playing (non ball ) team games. Europeans with ...

Layard Collection

Tea cultivation, warehousing.& processing. Informal parade with local troops before visiting dignitary. Large riverside religious /political meeting. Visit of Chinese /Tibetan delegation to grounds of official hill residence. Civil ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Official Spanish visit to Gibraltar. Spanish officer (General Don Fernando Barron y Ortz, Governor of Algeciras ?) is received by Lieutenant-General Mason-MacFarlane, and they are entertained by a regimental ...

Magwe, Burma, 24 March 1942. Various long shots of formations of Japanese aircraft in the sky. Unsteady long shots of various aircraft in flight (Allied and Japanese) shot through trees.

Burma, near Leppadan (Letpadan) on the Prome Road, 24 March ...

American Volunteer Group (AVG), Magwe, Burma, 23 March 1942. Prescott, a member of AVG ground crew refuelling a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft. Shot of the nose of a Tomahawk airplane focusing on the painted sharks teeth design. Brief shot of ...