British prisoners of war travel from Italy to Cairo via Alexandria.

The hospital ship Llandovery Castle enters Alexandria Docks. Medical officers board the ship. Wounded ...

24 June. On the morning of 23 June, units holding the Sollum-Halfaya area began to evacuate and move eastwards towards Matruh. South African armoured cars watch the escarpment westwards from Halfaya for ...

13 April 1942. British prisoners of war returned from Italy recording a broadcast to their families at the 15th Scottish Hospital, Egypt. Captain Peter Haddon is in charge. The dialogue is radioed direct ...

Unused INDIAN NEWS PARADE footage showing a squadron from the Royal Indian Navy under attack from Japanese aircraft.

I. Various shots of motor launches. Main sequence shows a Vosper 72 ft 6-inch motor torpedo boat exercising off Weymouth - she passes the mast of a sunken vessel and a moored Flower Class corvette.

II. Pan across Malta convoys, including (?) ...

Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are unloaded from the lorry. The beans are stirred, tipped from a sieve into a tray and then put into ...

Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African troops march, before Sergeant M’Cabe calls the squad to attention. The film shows Semaphore ...

Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks on wall stopped at 4.45. Chinese wear protection i.e. pieces of rag over mouths. Panning shot - wreckage of large ...

Rangoon 25 January 1942. Views of a busy street with several civilians running (hurrying for shelter after an air raid alarm was sounded, according to the cameraman's Dope Sheet). View across the Hlaing river. View of the Grand Pagoda. Heavily ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Alaric Rowntree while serving as Director of Communal Feeding for the Ministry of Food (and Colonial Office) in Malta during the critical period from July to December 1942, and later shown to ministers and officials ...

Notes

Technical: no soundtrack held for this film.

Remarks: uncatalogued

Malta supply operation MG.1, March 1942. Cameraship is HMS Cleopatra.

Convoy MW.10 at sea with a screen of Hunt Class escorts and cruisers and destroyers of the covering ...

The Duke's tour of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Aden.

HRH arrives at Heliopolis Airport in Cairo, takes the salute, inspects a guard of honour of the 4/7 Rajputs and says ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Royal Engineer Lieutenant Archibald ("Archie") Jack of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners records local scenes and local activities in Northern India in areas marked by ...

Irrawaddy river, Burma, 1 Apil 1942. View of various small civilian boats on the Irrawaddy, including "Sunlight". Wooden boom across the river. Men at work on the construction of the boom. Various small civilian boats including "Cameo". Portrait shot ...

April 1942. Turkish Military Mission in the grounds of General Auchinleck's home in Cairo. The members are General Sefik Cakmak, Chief of Air Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Pahsin Yazici, Major Calal Alcoc, ...

I. Springtime agriculture in Southern Crimea. Peasants dig earth against distant background of snow-tipped mountains and vineyards beside sea (Black Sea bordering Southern Crimea ?). Tractors drive out of plant and plough between trees. German ...

I. Reopening of Croatian Parliament. Croatian leader Ante Pavelic walks at head of ceremonial procession to old parliament, closed for past twenty-five years. Pavelic climbs stairway and mounts podium to express his thanks to Germany and ...

I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted by elephants when they visit an ancient Buddhist temple at Kelaniya. Monks watch the procession. The Admiral ...

The work of a Victory Kitchen, a government relief scheme. Vegetables and fruit are brought to Pitkali market by farmers then bought in bulk by a representative of the Communal Feeding Department. Carts ...

AYY 187/1. 30 Jan. 1942. Visit of Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Gustavus Testa and First Secretary Monsignor Charles Perico to captured German Catholic clergy and German and Italian prisoners at Helwan ...

I.The Duke of Gloucester visits Headquarters, 30 Corps, on the Alamein Line. He is greeted by Major General Ramsden, Corps Commander, and Major General Pienaar and Lieutenant-General Morshead, General ...

Simla and New Delhi. At 'The Races'. Large Military Parade. Govornor's Garden Party. Tiger hunt with large group of elephants. Servants attending to the preparation of clothing for formal occasions. Hunting expeditions.

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Tour in Upper Garhwal 1941-42. (Punjab) Scenic journey through high mountain country. Villages in the high mountains with local village life. Rope bridges over wide mountain rivers being crossed. European lady being carried in a ...