The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.

Film taken in Malta by Lord Mountbatten on Noel Coward's camera.

The film shows Lady Mountbatten, the Honourable Mrs Richard Morton (afterwards Lady Grantley), Junie Heywood-Lonsdale and possibly Desmond Dryer. Noel ...

Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet leads the tribe to ruin. The commentary draws the parallel with Hitler's Germany.

Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.

The film shows several of the Camps at which the Frontier troops were based, including Mansai, Jandola, Sorarogha and ...

Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.

The film begins by showing a practice parachute supply drop and there then follows a sequence showing a convoy of ...

Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1931.

The film follows a typical patrol by a set of scouts' platoons, carried out with the purpose of reconnoitring a road ...

Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1931.

This film shows something of the social life associated with working on the NW Frontier. Brigadier Alston lived in a ...

Amateur film of a visit to a temple in or near the Northwest Frontier, India.

Shots of a dog-like animal. A car parked near a large white temple. Local children pose for the camera. People visiting the temple. ...

Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), shows summer cruise to Norway and scenes of military life in Northern India, including British soldiers entraining, purifying water from canal, ...

Amateur film. Scenes at the Oba Oba Mission, Samoa; view over tropical hills and valleys from summit of hill with huts - hill station; procession of horses and people with supplies climbing road to the hill station - the mission (?); two ...

Amateur film. Scenes at the Oba Oba Mission, Samoa; MSs ten-year-old boys; pan across landscape from summit of hill; men, women and children walking to wooden, one-floor buildings and church - the mission (?); CU of European - the minister ...

Amateur film. Potting, grinding and irrigating in India (probably Madras area).