The film describes how a mission-trained Africanboy returns to his home village, having been at the mission school since a baby, to act as missionary amongst his own people.
When the Southern Rhodesian Government, anticipating an ...Leslie Howard explains to three Dominion soldiers why the Empire is at war.
The soldiers - from Australia, Canada and New Zealand - meet in Trafalgar Square, where a gushing lady commends them for "answering the ...
Views of a Field Ambulance attached to ...
An edited production by the SEAC Film Unit (British) shows how 'SEAC', the newspaper of South East Asia Command, is produced and distributed to troops ...
As news of Japanese surrender reaches forward troops around Toungoo (Taungoo) in southern Burma, Gurkha, Indian and British soldiers celebrate, and a ...
Offcuts. Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence ...
Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII of Siam (Thailand), is received at a garden party thrown by Lord Louis Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia) ...
I. "Italy blitzed!" Scenes of the production of "even bigger and more beautiful bombs" (filling 2000-lb casings with explosives) introduce aerial film of a night raid on Genoa. Flares and bombs explode over a wide area as the commentary justifies ...
I. "African Troops In Madagascar." African troops disembark in order to protect Britain's sea-lines and to save the island "from being bartered to the enemy by the treachery of Vichy marionettes". Fake tom tom music accompanies a view of the troops ...
The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.
On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...
I. "Three-Power Conference in North Africa": Churchill calls at Malta, then proceeds to Cairo to meet President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, November, 1943.
II. "Prison Ship on the Rocks": A ship carrying Germans ...
I. Review of the Year 1943": "The Home Front": The U-Boat war turned in Britain's favour. Tribute to the RAF: scenes in an aircraft factory; shots of damage in Hamburg and Berlin. Third Anniversary of the Home Guard. The first prisoners ...
