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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

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    Items include: MOSQUITOES GET STINGS IN MASS PRODUCTION CHINESE SET FOR BURMA OFFENSIVE P.M. OPTIMISTIC AT MANSION HOUSE EDEN REPORTS BIG SUCCESS IN MOSCOW BAD WEATHER AIDS NAZIS ...

     
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    The courage and service of the British merchant seaman, typified by the story of a Newfoundlander who had been torpedoed four times, related in an interview in his room as he packs for a new trip.

    After an opening ...

     
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    A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George VI.

    The King is "a symbol of unity" who links the Empire in "geography, history and destiny" and also an ...

     
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    An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.

    Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...

     
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    Mute print of film showing the life of Royal Navy crews defending the Atlantic convoys during the Second World War.

    New crews arrive at ships, and go through routine processing - having medical inspection, receiving ...

     
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    King George VI visits Malta in June, 1943, after visiting the troops in North Africa.

    'This film is presented to Malta, GC, by His Majesty's Government as a permanent record of a historical occasion'. The film shows: ...

     
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    START 10:00:00 Film title and intertitles "At Algiers on September 6, 1943, General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham assigned me to witness the surrender of the Italian fleet... Departing from Malta the evening of ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed in slow motion during a practice gunnery shoot off Scapa Flow, possibly 16 June 1943: a gunnery officer (?) scanning the sea through a pair of binoculars on the bridge of HMS Nelson, a cloud of cordite drifting by as the ...

     
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    START 00:00:01 Panning shots of the naval anchorage at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, April (?) 1943: there are several tank landing ships (LSTs), a U or V Class destroyer armed with four twin 4-inch guns moored alongside the ex-cruiser turned fleet repair ...

     
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    I. "Bomber Assault - Bostons hit Valenciennes": Daylight aerial shots show British bombs falling on the assembly sheds, forges, and steel foundries of Valenciennes.

    II. "Mr Churchill Returns from Moscow": the first meeting between the ...

     
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    Amateur film without titles shot by Sergeant Leslie Brower, a signaller in the 2nd Battalion Royal Horse Artillery, records military action in the Western Desert during the Eighth Army offensive of 1942, then off-duty scenes ...

     
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    (In colour) March 1943. A C-47 lands on airfield (probably Port Darwin). Royal Australian Navy sailors around aircraft. CU on fuselage, 'Guinea Airways - Royal Mail'. With view from the aircraft cockpit, the C-47 takes off. Various air-to-ground ...

     
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    I. "Three-Power Conference in North Africa": Churchill calls at Malta, then proceeds to Cairo to meet President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, November, 1943.

    II. "Prison Ship on the Rocks": A ship carrying Germans ...

     
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    I. "The Russian Front": aerial strafing of German columns and railways in snowy conditions on the way to Kastornoe.

    II. "More air attacks on Italy": A bombing raid on Rome (short, badly cut).

    III. "Forest Fire in America": blazing ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Scenes on HMS Nelson whilst en route for North Africa for Operation 'Torch': an officer from No. 9 Army Commando and stores on the main deck. At Gibraltar, ratings line up with brooms and placards with ironic, humorous messages and ...

     
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    Amateur film with titles shot by "Jack" Collier, double bass in Geraldo's Orchestra, records scenes in Cairo and Jerusalem, members of the dance band and female singers relaxing and Burman impersonating Mussolini speaking from a balcony, during ENSA ...

     
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    Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records the construction from palm trunks and fronds of a 35mm projection cinema (Empire Super Cinema), with detailed views of projectionist lacing up, Indian troops (14th/5th ...

     
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    Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of local life in Colombo, Gordon Gardens, fire fighters tackling an oil conflagration in the docks [either Colombo or Trincomalee, and caused by a spark from an ...

     
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    Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of Indian street life (street barbers, pavement artistes, devil worship) in Bombay and Madras, and shows British servicemen on leave.

     
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    Amateur film shot by Commander James C Elliot RNVR, while serving in the Mediterranean, records a distant view of King George VI touring bomb-damaged Malta on his visit in June 1943, and shows eight 20mm anti-aircraft pom-poms firing.

     
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    Air to air training shots filmed from the pilot's perspective at RAF Hornchurch in 1943. Pilot is C.J.S. Howard of 559 Squadron.

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    Summary: C.J.S. Howard joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Brief details of his military service as ...

     
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    I. "LAE AND HUON PENINSULA. 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION TRANSPORTED AND SUPPLIED BY UNITS OF 7TH US AMPHIBIOUS FORCE." General views of convoy in line off New Guinea. Landing beach - landing ships (including LST 475, LST 457 and LST 456) disembark their ...

     
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    Calcutta. Ceylon. Tea picking. Coconut collecting. Water well. Kandy. "The End."

     
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    "Universal Pictures Presents a Popular Variety View" Agricultural workers. Growing rice. Preparing food. Trip to market. Dental posters in English. Various stalls. Ploughing. Water from ox driven well. "Buy war bond and ...