I. 'RAF SHARK FIGHTER SQUADRON.' RAF ground crews load 50-inch bullets into the nose-mounted Browning machine guns of a Curtiss Tomahawk fighter aircraft of 112 Squadron RAF, which bears "sharks mouth" insignia around its air intake and filter. The ...

I. 'GENERAL SMUTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' General Jan C Smuts arrives at Heliopolis airfield (Cairo), where he is met by Sir Miles Lampson, and is introduced to Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, and Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham and other officers. Sir ...

Attack and Pursue.

I. 'ATTACK AND PURSUE.' Quentin Reynolds addresses the camera, informing the viewer that he is presenting a "typical day" with the British Army in the Western Desert. Indian troops standing behind ...

I. 'TURKEY.' The celebrations of the eighteenth anniversary of the foundation of the Republic. President Inn arrives at Ankara Stadium in an open topped Jaguar tourer and is immediately surrounded by reporters and photographers. The Turkish President ...

I. 'AROUND TOBRUK.' British Matilda II and Vickers light tanks manoeuvre in the desert near Tobruk. A Matilda Mk II tank drives past the camera position, moving off into desert scrub. German prisoners of war walk with their hands raised past British ...

I. 'SOUTH AFRICA. Exclusive photo report by Maurice Ford.' A short tour of the war time Union of South Africa. South African Air Force (SAAF) Avro Anson aircraft overfly a rugged part of the South African coastline. Aerial views of Durban with its ...

Entering a Pass into Kashmir; scenes in Srinagar; Gulmarg, with Donald and Deirdre; fishing camp on the Naubarg(?) River. Hunting with the Delhi pack. Memorial showing the original site for New Delhi; dancing class in Simla.

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Scenic tour of the high mountains showng snow capped peaks and their rocky gorges and tree lines slopes .Gurkha celebration on return to home village. Moutain village life. Wool trade and the tranport of wool by donkey with big ...

Nancy and Raymond Vernede's Wedding reception sequence. Balua Fair on Ganges at Benares, January 1938 with crowd river bathing scenes. Christmas camps, (Tiger Hunt ) in Terai Forest, 1939 -1941. Tour by Mr Vernede with wife and ...

Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and documentary footage of the geography and wildlife of the area, with extensive sequences of a range of levels of gold ...

Footage begins at Gateway to India, with other excellent shots of Bombay.

Extended coverage of Old and New Delhi including a parade outside Viceroy's House, then Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.

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Excellent footage of India beginning in Bombay and ending in Calcutta. Including

street and market scenes, famous buildings, countryside and villages, railways, beaches and rivers. A train journey in Southern India.

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