The distribution of supplies to local Burmese people in Lingadipa, Burma.

The men of 100th Brigade 20th Indian Division bring in rice and atta ( ...

AYY 198-5. 8 Mar. 1942. Teams of the 9th Battalion Indian Company and the Cyprus Regiment Company at Camp Polymedia line up on the playing field and the captains toss a coin. The Cypriot team have "C" on ...

Shot by Sergeant Hammond: wideshots of the game in progress, shot from the back of a lorry, giving a view over the crowd. Shots of the crowd with British and Indian soldiers ...

Dutch civilians, presumably recently released from Japanese internment, play airmen of RAF Batavia at football.

Footage of the game in progress ...

Sir Edward Gent, recently installed Governor of the Malayan Union, watches a football match between the British Army and a visiting team of professional ...

Islanders play football against an Army team on Home Island, part of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands attol.

The game in progress. Local civilians ( ...

Scenes of two football matches on the Indo-Burma border, including England versus Scotland and a local RAF team versus visitors.

An Indian ...

Opening shot over tail of Seafire IIC (serial MB.148) parked on cameraship HMS Victorious - Force H in XLS on horizon. French cargo-passenger ship Jamaique and a companion lie beneath the cliffs at Gibraltar. LSs of HMS Furious - she signals. Hunt ...

A view of Ceylon towards the end of the war, looking back over the period of defensive war, and to current preparations for the offensive.

General material on Ceylon's religions and economy (tea, rubber, rice) is ...

War with Japan.

Early Japanese successes. Film of troops training. Expansion halted by US forces. Battle of Midway - US air attacks on shipping. Japan still exploits world's second largest empire. ...

Following closely behind the advancing British troops in Burma the Madras Sappers and Miners build an airstrip at Ondaw to aid operations at the front ...

'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new University College in Nigeria, a short film was made of the event' (Colonial Cinema, September 1949, 51).