At Singapore, the Cunard White Star liner RMS Mauretania arrives carrying members of the Malayan and South East Asia Victory Contingents, and a parade ...

At Singapore, the Cunard White Star liner RMS Mauretania arrives carrying members of the Malayan and South East Asia Victory Contingents, and a parade ...

Close up of an Indian Maharajah (?) saluting (possibly the Maharajah of Rewa, Martand Singh?). Brief shot of two men talking, one wearing a pith helmet, the other a turban.

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Sacred Hindu ceremony of Shami Puja held in grounds of Kothi Palace in Rewa State, Madhya Pradesh, Northern India, on 5 October 1946 in presence of the Indian prince, concluding with ...

Technical documentary illustrates the brewing plant installed in 1945 on board a converted Blue Funnel Line Amenities ship for the supply of beer to British servicemen in the Far East.

View of white-painted MV ...

Documentary how Jewish children were taught in Palestine synagogue schools 2000 years ago.

At Singapore almost five thousand British servicemen board the Cunard White Star liner RMS Mauretania for repatriation, with Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith ...

At Singapore almost five thousand British servicemen board the Cunard White Star liner RMS Mauretania for repatriation, with Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith ...

Sir Miles Dempsey, commander of Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), departs by air from Kallang airport, Singapore, and a number of senior ...

Sir Miles Dempsey, commander of Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), departs by air from Kallang airport, Singapore, and a number of senior ...

Journeys by dhow from Kuwait to East Africa and back, filmed in 1936-38 and 1946.

ORIGINAL COLOUR FOOTAGE FOR LAST SECTION OF SONS OF SINBAD: EAST AFRICA, SOUTH ARABIAN SHORE, KUWAIT

In Rangoon, capital of Burma, an athletic meeting is held at which troops from Rangoon and 454 Sub-Areas compete at track and field events.

Three ...

A travelogue of Southern Rhodesia intended for prospective British tourists and immigrants.

Opening with a consideration of ancient Rhodesia, the film moves from the Zimbabwe ruins to 'an outstanding work by modern man' - the Birchenough ...

A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.

A British voiceover introduces the Bantu people living north east of Kenya's Lake Victoria, explaining that their deficiencies on the land - ' ...

In honour of the Sultan of Selangor's 48th birthday, a parade is mounted on the Klang padang in Selangor, Malaya.

The Sultan arrives and is ...

Documentary on the religious life in Jerusalem during the time of Christ.

Shows all stages in the cultivation of tea in Nyasaland.

Short entertainment film showing koala bears at play.

DOCUMENTARY. Village life in India and the beginnings of industrialisation.

BBFC certificate. Pan of village huts (commentary states that India has 300 million peasants living in poor conditions) (12). Woman smoothing the surface of a pot with ...

Rice, supplied by the Siamese (Thai) government, is unloaded onto DUKW amphibians at Port Swettenham in Selangor, Malaya.

View from aboard a ...

Sawai Man Singh II, Maharajah (Maharaja) of Jaipur, visits Hong Kong and inspects Indian troops of the Jaipur Guards (Indian State Forces).

At ...

Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke, the third Raja (Rajah) of Sarawak (on the island of Borneo) returns with his wife (the Rani/Ranee) to the capital ...

Part 1, shot by Sergeant Hutchins on 16 April 1946: Reginald Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma, walking up the steps of the Municipal Building in Singapore. Union flag flying; tilt ...