For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BURMA PRESENTS FIGHTER SQUADRON CANUCK NURSES LOOK AFTER BLITZED KIDDIES PREMIER WITH U.S. HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN BOY SCOUTS MEMORIAL SERVICE GREEKS TAKE ARGYROKASTRO SOUTH ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: SPRINGBOKS ON LEAVE AIR AFFAIRS IN U.S.A. ROYAL TOUR OF SOUTH WALES EMPIRE HELP IN ABUNDANCE FIELD-MARSHAL'S BATON MIDDLE EAST FRONT
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: CANADIANS PARADE IN STRENGTH ROYAL VISIT TO LETCHWORTH SOVIET WAR ZONE SPECIAL MR CHURCHILL MEETS PILOTS AND WORKERS AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR OVERSEAS WITH THE ARMY IN ...
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). Villages using empty tins for carrying water from the river, flattening the tins out and lining the roofs of ...
4 Items from BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS Vol 12 No 606.
Title: THE MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC WARFARE. President of the Board of Trade, Hugh Dalton, reports on the progress of his economic defences against Germany. He ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BRITISH ADVANCE INTO ABYSSINIA BATTLE DEMOSNTRATION BY OUR ARMY LORD HALIFAX LEAVES FOR U.S.A. SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS MOVE TO BATTLE ZONE MR WILLKIE GREETS US WITH A SMILE ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: R.A.F. RESCUE BOATS AT WORK WITH THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN ABYSSINIA AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR SINGAPORE NEW TRICKS BY THE NEW ARMY AERODROMES BUILT FROM THE MUD R.A.F. HAS ...
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WINGS OVER SINGAPORE NAVY REPELS ATTACK ON CONVOY INDIAN TRAINEES IN BRITAIN FALL OF ADDIS ABABA MORE DISPATCHES FROM THE WESTERN DESERT BISMARK SUNK
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ALL EYES ON SINGAPORE LORD LOUIS TAKES COMMAND HOP HARVEST IN BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA INSPECTS SHORE DEFENCES ROYAL MARINES AS KING'S SQUAD FRONT LINE PLANES, BACK ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. CAPTURES NAZI SHIP SAILING UNDER AMERICAN COLOURS AVIATION 2ND EAGLE SQUADRON AND THE HURRICANE BOMBER. U.S. P HURRICANE NOW BECOMES A BOMBER RI.2. MALAYA, ON GUARD, ...
Traces the life of a Boer leader, Kruger.
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MR MENZIES ON EVE OF SAILING REVIEWS WAR SITUATION ANZACS IN THE NEWS FROM MALAY STATES TO THEIR HOMELAND AUSSIES SETTLE DOWN TO IT IN MALAYA EMPIRE AIR FIGHTERS OF ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: SINGAPORE REINFORCED DUTCH LAW COURT TO SIT IN LONDON SHOOTING WAR NEAR FOR U.S. SOUTH AFRICA SAYS 'TOTAL WAR' CHURCHILL VISITS NORTH OF ENGLAND MINES IN MILLIONS
Two adventurers are taken in by two girls and finance them into the jungle. They leave them when they find out but are captured by savages, and escape only to join up with the girls.
From a true story - School pupil Maung Ba at school writes an essay on why he will remain a Buddhist. At home his sisters begs him to convert to Christianity, but he refuses violently. She asks help from native Christian leaders who ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: DE GAULLE'S ARMY ON MANOEUVRES BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC ARMY PRACTISES INVADING, NOW SOUTH AFRICANS END SOMALILAND DRIVE PREMIER STARS IN PEACEFUL ROLE
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ADVANCE INTO SYRIA HEADS NEWS FROM MIDDLE EAST ALLIED TROOPS CROSS SYRIAN BORDER BRITISH PINCH OUT IRAQ REVOLT REFUGE IN PALESTINE FOR KING PETER GERMAN PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED ...
Malta as it is today.
Production footage/unedited material for a travelogue about Kenya and Mombasa.
No titles. An Asian ivory carver at work; an African brings in a large elephant tusk; the carver and another Asian discuss the carving of a lion; the ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GIBRALTAR DEFENCES HIS MAJESTY SEES PARATROOPERS SINKING OF 'BISMARK' NEW FIGHT FIGHTER OUR EASTERN BASTION
INTEREST. An account of the Air Transport Auxiliary which provides personnel to fly newly completed aircraft from factory to service airfield.
Rl.1 Credits (69). The commentary explains that hundreds of aircraft have to be ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AFTER THE BATTLE OF MATAPAN BY CONVOY TO GIBRALTAR BATTLE FOR KEREN AUSTRALIANS WELCOME U.S. FLEET ON GUARD AT SINGAPORE HONG KONG IS READY GENERAL DE GAULLE IN CAIRO PRIME ...
A picture of the contribution made to Britain's war effort by people from Newfoundland.
The film, which has throughout a strong connecting theme on the importance of the mail link with "back home", opens with scenes ...
A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and personnel strength.
Heavy (RN ?) warships at sea; the sloop HMIS Indus in the pool of London (by Tower Bridge); a parade; new ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of "an outside" threat (obviously Japan).
The film, like the pattern of strength it seeks to portray, is based on Singapore ("one ...
A picture, early in the war, of the armed solidarity of the British Empire.
The film serves to illustrate its opening theme: "the Alarm sounded, and the many peoples of the Empire sprang to answer the call to service ...
An explanation of the background to the War in the Far East and of its probable strategic development, founded entirely on a commentary illustrated by film of a large map of the Pacific on which points are demonstrated, ...
Life in the Indian Army Unit shown is possibly the 15th Punjab Regiment).
The day begins with reveill and scenes inside the barracks. The parade ground - physical exercise. Various forms of training are shown - ...
Reel One: The film opens with the title "WOMEN + WAR" with an illustration of St George and the Dragon, and credits the photography to Mahatta Ltd. Caption "An amateur production arranged by Daphne Goldney Cast The Women War Workers Rawalpindi and ...
A short propaganda film, produced by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Manchester, showing the bomb damage to the city of Manchester caused by the German air-raids of 22 and 23 December 1940, with particular emphasis on ...
START 00:00:00 Black and white footage showing an Admiralty survey map of Gibraltar dated 1921 and views of the 'Rock' as HMS Nelson approaches from the south east (the large sloping water catchment area above Sandy Bay is clearly visible), Europa ...
START 00:00:00 Filmed between 3 and 6 March 1941 (?), black and white footage showing the new Royal Navy battleship, HMS King George V (in overall Home Fleet dark grey), at sea on HMS Nelson's port and starboard quarter, probabably as part of the ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 28 February 1941 on a cold and wet day in Scapa Flow as a large 24.5-inch torpedo is hoisted back on board HMS Nelson after a practice torpedo firing in the naval anchorage; note the magnesium flare still burning in ...
Reel 1: (Can marked "Jan 1936, Easter 1936. Boxall, Nelson etc at Gibraltar). Family scenes. HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney during gunnery practice at sea and moored at Gibraltar, shore leave in Toledo and Seville, with town scenes. Naval anti-aircraft ...
Part I: The arrival of young civilians at primary training centre. "Royal Armoured Corps", A13 Cruisers, A10 Matilda and Valentine tanks on manoeuvres, 'Churchill' being used to demolish house. "Royal Artillery", firing of light and heavy artillery ...
START 00:00:00 Colour footage of animals at Durban Zoo, South Africa: a lion and lioness in their enclosure. Seals by a pool. A rhinoceros in its enclosure. Ostriches in their enclosure.
00:00:34. Colour footage of birds at Colombo Zoo, Sri ...
Bus marked "Nanga Ways" (possibly a reference to the high Kashmir peak Nanga Parbat ?) is loaded prior to departing. In Kashmir: boats of various descriptions (including houseboats) on the Dal Lake by Srinagar. Shots of local houses. Kashmiris ...
Amateur film shot by a local Bahamian cameraman records the life in the Bahamas of the twenty English evacuee schoolboys evacuated via SS Orduna from Belmont School in Hassocks, Sussex for the period from 1940 to 1944, and shows the Duke of Windsor ( ...
Amateur film without titles shot by the founder of the Belgian Section of the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Victor Billet, records training scenes (drilling and sport) of the First Contingent at HMS Royal Arthur in October 1940, embarkation of members of ...
Amateur film by Major Edwin Chapman-Andrews, with full descriptive titles, shot while based on the staff of the C-in-C Middle East as Liaison Officer with Emperor Haile Selassie .
Film covers the campaign by static ...
I. 'THE FUNERAL OF GENERAL METAXAS.' Formal parade and guard of honour. The reception of visiting dignitaries followed by the arrival of the widow and family of the deceased. Greek civilians wait in line to pay their respects. Commentary outlines the ...
I. British Aid to Greece.
I. 'BRITISH AID TO GREECE.' Quayside views of Greek docks with heavy-lift cranes unloading British military supplies for use by the Greek military. British 4x2 trucks are unloaded. Cut to ...
I. 'BRITAIN IS READY.' British Prime Minister Winston Churchill watches army exercises. A convoy of troop carrying trucks drives along an isolated road towards the intended area of the exercise. Infantry then climb out of the trucks and set up ...
I. 'GENERAL DE GAULLE ENTERTAINED AT BRITISH EMBASSY, CAIRO. General Charles de Gaulle (C-in-C Free French) is entertained by Sir Miles (British Ambassador) and Lady Lampson at a garden party in the grounds of the British Embassy in Cairo. General de ...
I. 'SYRIA AND LEBANON.' Panoramic vista of the Roman ruins at Palmyra as British Bren gun carriers pass under a Roman archway. The Bren gun carriers are supported by British infantry, armed with .45 Thompson sub-machine guns and a .303-inch Bren ...
