I. AJMERE URS - An important Muslim pilgrimage lasting seven days - one of the biggest in India held yearly at Ajmere.
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II. GRADUATES FOR THE IAF - ' ...
I. AJMERE URS - An important Muslim pilgrimage lasting seven days - one of the biggest in India held yearly at Ajmere.
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II. GRADUATES FOR THE IAF - ' ...
I. FLOOD DEVASTATIONS.
I. FLOOD DEVASTATIONS - First pictures of the devastating floods and the serious damage done in the Burdwan District, Bengal, and Vijayanagar near Ajmere.
I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.
I. SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - India mourns the great loss of Sir Sikandar Hyat ...
Indian sappers and miners clearing a pass in the mountains south west of the Mareth Line for the advance of the Fourth Indian Division. Cave dwellers in the Matmata mountains ...
A visiting contingent of Indian troops of ...
21 January. The Queens Royal Regiment in Bren gun carriers advancing along the road from Tarhunah on the last lap to Tripoli. The regiment marching in single file along the side of the road.
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Edited film with commentary depicting the Chindits setting out on Operation Longcloth, their first raiding expedition behind Japanese lines, under the leadership of Brigadier Orde Wingate.
Titles: 'Public ...
An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.
Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...
14 Sep.1943. Shots of the three large Italian ships off Malta, the cruiser Eugenio di Savoia and the battleships Italia (late Littorio) and Vittorio Veneto. Shots taken from the north coast of the island ...
Cameracraft crosses bows of anchored Italian submarine and passes down starboard side to give CU of the conning tower - it is a Flutto Class boat, probably Vortice or Marea. MS off the submarine's starboard ...
Reel 1: Low angle medium close-up of (British or Australian?) prisoners of war (POWs), one of whom is a sergeant. A staff car passes flying a Japanese pennant; the rear window is open and a Japanese senior officer (general?) looks at the camera. ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records the construction from palm trunks and fronds of a 35mm projection cinema (Empire Super Cinema), with detailed views of projectionist lacing up, Indian troops (14th/5th ...