Film showing the use of Alligator tracked amphibious vehicles during landings at Ru-Ywa, in the Arakan region of Burma.
Various shots of an ...
Amateur film of a young woman surrounded by crowds on an Indian street. Colonel Hodgkinson does not identify who Althya is - it is possible that she is Althya Clark Youngman, an American ...
Shows the ecological system based on the Amate fig tree, found in the tropical forests of Belize. The tree in turn is dependent upon the instinctive behaviour of microscopic black wasps, which lay eggs within the fig, which ...
TRAVELOGUE. A cruise to Africa and a safari in Kenya.
Main title. "Outward bound for the Cape". The ship. "Crossing the 'line'". Capetown and Table Bay from Table Mountain. "Sailing Northwards to East Africa passing Zanzibar". " ...
Story of 6,000 mile journey by road rail and air from Cape Town to Cairo.
Part 1: On the main thoroughfare in Batavia Ambonese troops have established a roadblock and stopped a passing car. The car is flying red and white Indonesian pennants. The ...
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the ...
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African folk tale. Why so many babies die - and what to do about it if you want the babies to live. Foriwa has a baby. Like many women ...
At an investiture at Government House, Singapore, Major-General Thomas Terry US Army presents medals to Lieutenant-General Messervy and other British ...
At Katha, on the River Irrawaddy in northern Burma, American signalmen lay a telephone line across the river.
Views of the linesmen at work on a ...
Aerial shots of the damage done to Myitkyina, Burma, by American forces in the area who were shelling the Japanese garrison; buildings are badly damaged and some are still burning ...
At a jetty men carry belts of ammunition. The belts are passed below decks. The harbour as the boat leaves. 0.5-inch twin Vickers turret traverses left to right and then is ...
The work of the United Missions in the Copperbelt at Mindolo and Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
Title and credits. The undeveloped country except for a few chimneys and mine workshops. Young African women join husbands and are ...
Scenes of Supermarine Sea Otter amphibious biplanes in flight and the burning wreckage of a Sea Otter shot down over Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma ...
A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron and DUKW amphibians are used to evacuate casualties of 111th Brigade during Operation River, May- ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen aboard HMS Prins Albert before making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...
Troops of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen making an amphibious landing on the banks of the Rangoon river, Burma, as part of Operation ...
British and Indian troops of 25th Indian Division are put ashore by the Royal Indian Navy at Ru-Ywa in the coastal Arakan region of Burma.
A ...
Aerial views of an amphibious landing by 25th Indian Division at Ru-Ywa in the coastal Arakan region of Burma.
Aerial views of landing craft, ...
Indian troops, probably of 26th Indian Division, board Royal Indian Navy landing craft from a beach at Ramree Island, off the Arakan coast of Burma, ...
Troops of 3 Commando Brigade assault the Myebon peninsula in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, with the support of tanks, aircraft and naval gunfire ...
In order to speed the surrender of Japanese forces at Ramree town (on Ramree Island in the Arakan region of Burma) Royal Indian Navy (RIN) landing ...
A Gurkha of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles has a leg amputated in a field hospital at Myebon, Burma, after he was captured and left for dead by the ...
START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's African Entertainment Unit to an East African Command camp somewhere in Kenya. Members of the entertainment ...
START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th Field Bakery. They march to the camp bakery and hold out their hands for inspection by three British officers, probably the camp ...
Scenes of a visit by an Indian Maharajah to an RAF field hospital near Imphal.
The Maharajah arrives by car and is greeted by Air Commodore ...
Part of an RAF Wing and an RAF Regiment Squadron moves across some difficult terrain to a new forward base in Burma.
Wrecked bridge at Toungoo. ...
Scenes in Andimeshk, Iran. US Dodge lorries handed over by US personnel to Soviet personnel, who drive them away.
Notes
Remarks: no dope sheet in file.
In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since the end of the war.
Four ...
DOCUMENTARY. A report on Anguilla's illegal declaration of independence from the West Indies Associated States.
DOCUMENTARY. Scenes following the quelling, by British troops, of the attempted rebellion in Anguilla; a demonstration; British troops on the island; a party given by the Royal Navy; a speech by Ronald Webster.
Good practice in animal husbandry illustrated through the daily life of a Kenyan cattle farmer. He milks cows, delivers milk to the dairy, looks after cattle, castrates bulls. The Veterinary Service helps to improve his livestock.
START 00:00:00 Colour footage of animals at Durban Zoo, South Africa: a lion and lioness in their enclosure. Seals by a pool. A rhinoceros in its enclosure. Ostriches in their enclosure.
00:00:34. Colour footage of birds at Colombo Zoo, Sri ...
Explores the conflicting attitudes towards development in an 'under-developed ar ea' the Seychelles, and points out how economic advance can destroy more than it creates.
DOCUMENTARY. The life of British scientists stationed in Graham Islands in the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos in 1937.
The film opens with Africans standing outside a corrugated iron hut, with an open sewer running through ...
I. MS sequence as HMS Eastbourne (F.73) leaves Portsmouth, heading out towards Spithead. Whirlwind anti-submarine helicopter, minesweeper HMS Killiekrankie (M.1128), and a small motor vessel, Jato, also appear on screen.
II. Squid ATW. MCU of ...
I. HMS Fenton acts out the interception of some unseen coastal traffic. CUs of men on the bridge - signalman looking through binoculars, Officer of the Watch, Captain Hart, the Navigation Officer. A flag signal is ...
At a Field Ambulance unit near Pauktabin in central Burma, British troops of 36th Division receive typhoid inoculations.
A syringe is taken out of ...
Antigua, the northernmost island of the Leeward islands in the Caribbean. Description of the old English harbour and the scenery.
INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop Lagos. The main problems being reclamation of swamp areas provision of residential areas and slum clearance.
"Rl.1." ...
Documentary on the choice of the Atlantic island of Ascension as a tracking station for satellites and rockets and its transformation.
‘Drab endless vistas of scree’ was Michael Orrom's first impression of ...
Roy Welensky is interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge, topics include the Commonwealth, racial policy, South Africa, possible constitutional change, imperial rule and its legacy,mixed marraigesetc...
AMATEUR FILM.
ARAB LEGION AMMAN. Filmed around April 1937 on the occasion of the annual parade of the Legion. The parade was taken by King Hussein but it is uncertain whether there is no footage of him in this film (30ft).
LAN ...
The film covers the area between the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea. Views of the hill country of Palestine, the desert, an Arab village and herds of goat. In the north there are views of the Lebanon mountains and general views of the region.
INTEREST. Pearl diving and a pearl fleet in the Persian Gulf.
