Your search returned 2567 items
Show: 12 | 24 | 48 items
  •  
    Fisher Collection

    Agricultural Show; visit to Tai O; launching a ferry boat; H.R.H. Prince Philip visits Hong Kong.

     
  •  
    Fisher Collection

    Holiday shots on Lantau Island.

     
  •  
    Fisher Collection

    Dragon Boat Festival and dragon boat races.

     
  •  
    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII of Siam (Thailand), is received at a garden party thrown by Lord Louis Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia) ...

     
  •  
    GB

    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 ...

     
  •  
    GB

    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 ...

     
  •  
    GB

    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 ...

     
  •  
    GB

    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 ...

     
  •  
    GB

    I. "Bomber Assault - Bostons hit Valenciennes": Daylight aerial shots show British bombs falling on the assembly sheds, forges, and steel foundries of Valenciennes.

    II. "Mr Churchill Returns from Moscow": the first meeting between the ...

     
  •  
    GB

    I. "The Seven Seas": HMS Duke of York sinks the Scharnhorst. The RAF's Coastal command in action. Bomber Command sinks the Tirpitz.

    II. "The Far East Front": Americans land on the Marshall Islands, General MacArthur retakes the Philippines. ...

     
  •  
    GB

    I. "Pacific Battlefront": A tribute to the endurance of Australian troops engaged in jungle warfare in New Guinea, and to the bushboys who assist them.

    II. "Further Advances in New Guinea": Australians in Papua get support from the Royal ...

     
  •  
    GB

    I. "The Russian Front": aerial strafing of German columns and railways in snowy conditions on the way to Kastornoe.

    II. "More air attacks on Italy": A bombing raid on Rome (short, badly cut).

    III. "Forest Fire in America": blazing ...