ROYAL NAVY VIDEOS: 1990sGB

Excerpts from a concert at Hong Kong Stadium on 25 June 1997, shortly prior to handover: in attendance is Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.

Notes

Remarks: only Tapes 2 and 3 held by IWM.

FALKLANDS CONFLICTGB

Helicopters operate from RFA Stromness(?) en route to the Falklands; aircraft arriving and departing at Ascension Island.

A Lynx helicopter is filmed from the deck of the ship as it lands, takes off ...

Anderson Collection

European wedding with guests and full wedding party reception. Harbour port scenes with shipping traffic. Voyage on large ocean liner. Coastal shots from ship perhaps arriving in India.

Anderson Collection

Miscellany of country life showing agriculture and fishery. Also the construction of a large building using 'Biblical Methods'

Anderson Collection

Oceanliner Vovage with extensive shots of Aden and its achorage showng scenery and shipping. Ocean voyage shows on board festivities such as 'the crossing of the line'.

Anderson Collection

Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large oceanside town on Indian Ocean (East Africa or India).

Anderson Collection

Lush vegetation. Scenery footage including mountains and village or tourist accommodation set amongst the high terrain.

Anderson Collection

War Memorial Ceremony in a small East African town with Governor and followed by military march past and African military band.

Anderson Collection

East African coast area showing local buildings villas and some in Arab style and others showing some old German Colonial influence.

Anderson Collection

East African coastal area showing city traffic and city buildings some of which are Mosques and Arabic in influence. Hill country scenes with local villages and then tree felling activities and the treating of timber in a country ...

Anton-Smith Collection

Includes shots of Agricultural Officers on tour and various agricultural and fisheries research projects including coffee and groundnuts. These are interspersed with shots of African schoolgirls invited to tea with their Teacher ...

Anton-Smith Collection

Various items showing people and places in the life of an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia.

Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). ...

Anton-Smith Collection

Family scenes; grinding rice in a Chinese village; rigging up a model plane.

Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). His wife Anne was a ...

Anton-Smith Collection

Agricultural Workers in Northern Rhodesia 1961-62.

Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). His wife Anne was a Teacher and later ...

TREASURE IN MALTA

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...

Atkinson Collection

Film is mostly taken up with scenes on board ship, though there are some scenes in Aden: a car being loaded with baggage, and some people at work on cars, perhaps in a mechanic's shop (cars have Aden license plates).

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Great Britain

Amateur. People on beach. Locals fishing.

Propaganda film made by Africans to show the people of Nigeria that leprosy can be cured if early treatment is taken instead of their relying on the witch doctors.

GB

Unedited Rhodesian footage.

A map pinpointing the location of Rhodesia in the African continent; scenes of black Rhodesians; whites at a polling station; Ian Smith at the Commonwealth Relations office.

ROVING REPORTGreat Britain

DOCUMENTARY. Tourist attractions of the Bahamas and the new properties under construction.

AMATEUR. Footage of events in Bahrain 1938-48.

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

Wide shot showing a very large structure built of Bailey bridging sections. Men of the Madras Sappers and Miners heaving the structure into position. A British officer directing ...

ADVENTUREGreat Britain

Anthony Smith and cameraman Douglas Botting fly by balloon from Zanzibar to the mainland of Africa.

GB

Unedited colour material shot by an official RAF cameraman of Baltimores, Bostons and Spitfires, including air to air footage and some shots of Malta.

The first sequence is of a Baltimore squadron in N Africa, ...

AMATEUR. Baluch regimental sports; farewell parade for Colonel and Mrs. Lord; farewell to Viceroy Commissioned officers; Welfare farewell to Mrs. Lord.

Baluch Regimental sports. Patsy and trap. The Regimental Cenotaph. Views of the sports - ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

After the fall of the city of Shwebo in ...

Great Britain

Biography of a banana, from Jamaican plantation to greengrocer's stall.

Great Britain

Record of Baptist Missionary Society tour led by Herbert Janes (later Sir Herbert Janes). Various parts of Southern Africa (including Rhodesia), covering travel, location and landscape shots, shots of rural and urban life and some footage ...

TONIGHTGreat Britain

Great Britain

INTEREST. Cricket match: Barbados defeat the M.C.C.

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

At Kalewa, on the River Chindwin in Burma, barrage balloons are positioned to deter low-flying enemy aircraft.

Balloon over the Chindwin. Jeep ...

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

At Kalewa, on the River Chindwin in Burma, barrage balloons are positioned to deter low-flying enemy aircraft.

Man operating a winch as it spools ...

India

Re-edited version of CIN 237 (without soundtrack).

India

Short documentary about Bassein, a fishing village 25 miles north of Bombay on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

The film shows the family of a fisherman, one who owns his own boat. After he has set out for the day ...

AMATEUR. Film of life in Bastar state, India.

Great Britain

A short story for children about a Basuto-boy herdsman and his adventures in dealing with cattle thieves.

The second reel (of two) shows Lesaoama, a Basuto boy, as he travels across icy mountains on a Basuto pony in order to tell his ...

Great Britain

A film made for African audiences showing how Basuto troops are occupied in the Allied cause.

A title reads 'Middle East: Basuto fire fighters in action'. A fire has been lit on a stone jetty. At the fire station, the alarm is ...

Great Britain

An animated map is shown, followed by general views of the country, and its peop le and their work. Concluding with a horse race.

India

The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its workers at its specially-built industrial town of Batanagar.

The film’s opening ...

CHARACTER FORMATION IN DIFFERENT CULTURES

Compares treatment of Balinese and Iatmul (New Guinea) babies with American practices. Anthropology. The different methods of bathing children is seen in three contrasting cultures. "New Guinea". A native ...

Unedited rushes.

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

In Mandalay, Burma's second city, the stronghold of Fort Dufferin is pounded by air attacks and after the fall of the fort, the divisional commander ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Shot by Lieutenant Hayat: Uneven and dark footage of troops walking along a road. View of the distant Mandalay Hill with bare trees in the foreground; troops (probably 8th ...

TV EYEGreat Britain

Report on the Falklands crisis. Llew Gardner reports from Downing Street and Julian Manyon reports from Argentina. Denis Tuohy leads a studio debate with Falkland Islanders living in Britain. Includes a clip of General Alfredo Saint ...

WEEKEND WORLDGreat Britain

Report on the latest position in the South Atlantic with interviews with Brig. Kenneth Hunt, Jon Connell, Admr. Edward Gueritz, Jonathan Alford, Andrew Thompson, Guillermo Makin, Philip Windsor, David Tongue, Peter Shore and ...

PANORAMA

Reports from London and New York on the current state of the Falklands conflict with an interview with Nicaros Mendez on world opinion about Argentinian attitudes to the Falklands and an interview with John Nott, Sec. of State for Defence.

WEEKEND WORLDGreat Britain

Report on the latest developments in the crisis in the South Atlantic with interviews with Jon Connell, Philip Windsor, Dudley Fishburn, Col. Neil Maude, Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, Andrew Thompson, Andrew Whitley, Edward ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Attack against the enemy at El Ruweisat, south of the El Alamein Box.

Attack by 161 Brigade, 5th Indian Division and the 22nd and 23rd Armoured Brigades on El Ruweisat ...