Various events at Naini Tal in 1939, including two christenings and the King's birthday parade. New Year's Day parade 1940. Lucinda on pony in Simla.

Swimming pool, Cecil Hotel, Delhi:1940.

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Garhwal: skiing in Punjab. High mountain scenery with snowfields and single person skiing and tobogganing. Sherpa porters. Mountain villages. Delhi public buildings. European children playing in domestic scenery in England. Children ...

I. 'ANTHONY EDEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' Anthony Eden, the British Secretary of State for War arrives in Alexandria harbour on a tender to inspect the British Queen Elizabeth Class battleship HMS Warspite. The tender pulls alongside as Anthony Eden is ...

I. 'THE FLEET SINKS AN ITALIAN WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.' A British naval patrol reportedly pursues three enemy ships for a day and a night. Shots of activity aboard RN vessels including lookouts on bridge. Enemy ships are sighted; action ...

I. 'ATTACK ON A FRONTIER FORT IN LIBYA.' A combined force of British Rolls-Royce and Marmon-Herrington armoured cars penetrates the four hundred mile defensive fence on the Libyan frontier. The British artillery bombardment of Fort Maddalena. Bombing ...

I. 'WAR IN THE SUDAN.' Map shows strategic importance of Atbara and Khartoum using the Nile as a reference point. Paddle steamer and tugs on Nile, water wheels and oxen in bygone days of peace. Commentary outlines Mussolini's aggressive plans over ...

Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the story of a Bombay stockbroker who sells his shares and evacuates the city because of false rumours of aerial ...

Depicts the pageant held on 4th June 1940 at the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School, Mbereshi, to celebrate the coming of Christ into the lives of girls and women in Africa.

Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School at Mbereshi, N. Rhodesia. Features missionaries Mabel Shaw and Winifred Bishop.

Depicts scenes from Festival week at the London Missionary Society Girls' Boarding School, Mbereshi, to celebrate the first 25 years of the School's life and also to mark the departure of missionary Mabel Shaw after 25 years of service.

Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at the Boys' Boarding School, Mbereshi, N. Rhodesia - a teacher training school and upper standard school for boys. Features Rev. R. H. Sabin, Rev. Griffith Quick, Rev. T. Cocker-Brown.

Depicts life at the London Missionary Society's mission station at Aird Hill, at the western end of south east Papua, on the Kikori river. Includes footage of the Aird Hill Technical School, sago making, and a trip on the 'Tamate' launch to Urama, Mate ...

Features the launch 'Tamate', named after the London Missionary Society missionary James Chalmers, stationed at the Society's mission station at Aird Hill at the western end of south east Papua, on the Kikori River. Depicts a trip on the 'Tamate' along ...

Depicts life in Port Moresby, Papua, including the history of the London Missionary Society mission and its pioneer missionaries, and the current life of the mission.

Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society on Mailu amongst the Dimugu people.

Glimpses of London Missionary Society stations in the South Pacific obtained by the Rev. Norman Goodall (on deputation, 1939-40?). Includes Upolu and Apia in Samoa, Rarotonga in the Cook islands, Niue, Ronorono, Beru in the Gilbert Islands, Funafuti in ...

I. Consequences of breakdown in Anglo-French relations for military situation in North Africa. Captured British film of Army exercises in Egypt, showing artillery practice, camel troops and Indian soldiers ("mercenaries from all over the world") ...

The first two reels of a record of the Italian conquest of British Somaliland.

Maps illustrate the strategic importance of the area to Britain. Film of the desert terrain show the harsh conditions in which the ...

START 00:00:00 Monochrome views of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon filmed in late 1939, showing a French light cruiser identified by Blundell as the Duguay-Trouin at anchor off Hong Kong harbour and the elderly Canadian Pacific passenger liner RMS ...

The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large open-air swimming pool and Aero-plages (sand-yachts) on the beach. Scenes from the Grandes Fte de Fleurs in Le Touquet including a group of young ...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth review a parade of RAF personnel in the main street of a small English town.

The unedited film shows the arrival of the King and Queen; they review the parade, pausing to talk to ...

Edited and titled amateur film showing episodes in the life of the Royal Horse Guards at the beginning of the war and their transportation to Palestine, February 1940.

This film is again part ...