DOCUMENTARY. The people, resources and industries of British Guiana.
RL.1 Credits (78). A chart showing the location of Guyana, the 'El Dorado' of Walter Raleigh (122). The Guyanese mountains and jungle viewed from a boat passing ...
1980 elections in Rhodesia.
The Emir's palace and town street scenes in Zaria, Nigeria
SIR BRYAN * SHARWOOD-SMITH> KNIGHTS THE EMIR OF KANO, ALHAJI MUHAMMADU * SANUSI>
Current affairs programmme. Items: Empire foods; Colour bar; South African troubles; B.O.A.C. flowers.
Survivors from Empire Windrush at Gibraltar, March 1954.
HMS Triumph arrives at Gibraltar from Algiers followed by general views of transport. Survivors of the Empire Windrush disembark from ...
How Hong Kong business leaders have made compromises in order to adapt to Chinese rule.
THE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS ON THE RHODESIA> TOBACCO> INDUSTRY
Film on the Royal Navy's Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance (A.171). The ship is shown sailing through ice fields as members of the crew talk about their experiences and impressions of life onboard. The pilot of the Wasp helicopter, the Marine ...
Army Documentary film recording some of the projects undertaken by the Royal Engineers in the Arabian Peninsula during the mid 1960s. These include the road constructed from Dhala to Aden, including a description of the difficulties encountered, ...
An inside account of the struggle waged by FRELIMO against Portuguese colonialism. Also relates the support given to Portugal by the Smith regime in Rhodesia and its continued military attacks on civilian targets in Mozambique following that ...
Procession involving the Etsu of Nupe; shots of life in the town of Bida, Nigeria
Trials carried out in Malta illustrating the use of a NL Pontoon to bridge a water gap between LST ramp and the shore when loading and unloading a Centurion tank.
Pontoon approaches HMS ...
ARMY MOBILE NEWS TEAM SHOTLIST
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Activities of 103 Battalion REME (Volunteers), a Territorial Army unit, on exercises in Gibraltar, including amphibious assault, archaeological dig at Casemates Square, Rock Run, raft race and ...
Interviews with members of 103 Battalion REME (Volunteers), a Territorial Army unit, on exercises in Gibraltar: interviewees are Lance Corporal Elizabeth Hart, Craftsman Richard Salloum, Lieutenant- ...
Interviews with members of 103 Battalion REME (Volunteers), a Territorial Army unit, on exercises in Gibraltar: interviewees are Lance Corporal Lee McKerlie, Captain Simon Lowe, Lance Corporal Gary Hart ...
A territorial survey of Belize (formerly British Honduras) as an introduction to a Staff College tactical exercise.
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(Tape 1) Shots of HMS Ocean and HMNLS Rotterdam. FIBUA - Fighting in Built-Up Areas - sequence on Gibraltar. HMS Ocean and HMS Fearless off Gibraltar. Troop and gun movements (42 Commando and 29 Commando Royal Marines) by 846 ...
HMS Fenton is one of two minesweepers re-commissioned for passage to England after five years in reserve at Aden. The object of the exercise was to prove that such vessels could be brought ...
Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers being evacuated from Trieste to Malta on the light carrier HMS Centaur, and the frigate HMS Whirlwind.
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How Hong Kong police are now using video footage from surveillance cameras to fight the multi-million pound trade in smuggled goods. Also how police dogs have been trained to wear cameras in dangerous situations.
The Empire Games Village Part 2. Teams practising. Impromptu cricket. Fencing practice. Official visit by the Duke of Edinburgh and his inspection of the village and his meetings with the teams and officials. Formation display by a RAF Hawker Hunters ...
Track and field practice by competitors at the village. Formal ceremonies with the hoisting of the national flags and marching by national team members in their smart uniforms. Formal marching by the RAF Band .
Competitors of all races mixing at ...
Formal ceremonies of the Hoisting of National Flags at the Village with the National teams in attendance. Extensive parading by the large national teams with on the sport drill by the Australian men.
Production / Donor Details: The cameraman was ...
Aerial views of the opening of the Games at the Stadium of Cardiff Arms Park and aerial views of the city centre of Cardiff. The Empire Games Village outside Cardiff with the ceremony of the hoisting of the national flags of the contesting countries. ...
Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archae ologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who mke friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...
A 'Pot pourri' of shots of the Northern Rhodesian police at work and play. Includes a trip to Tanzania, the visit by Lord Louis Mountbatten, S. Supt Espey's own retirement parades.
Production / Donor Details: J.S. Espey served ...
Kenya: churches, clinics, gold mining (surface), blacksmithing, pottery making and dancing.
Propagandic film extolling the wonderful life and achievements of Rhodesia. Emphasis is on united Rhodesians, with footage of them in various situations - agricultural shows, city scenes, country scenes and village scenes. It looks at the ...
A travelogue taking the form of a car journey through the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
A car with luggage on its roof passes a sign saying 'Welcome to Bulawayo' as the voiceover emphasises the development of the city 'in the seventy ...
Harry Secombe travels round the countryside of the Falkland Islands.
I. (Tape 1) Aerial shots from an Army helicopter of Port Stanley, Mount Pleasant Airfield and the coast of East Falkland, including the hulk of the ironclad Lady Elizabeth and a red-hulled ...
(Sequence 53A) General Mario Benjamin Menendez.
(Sequence 53B) General Mario Benjamin Menendez.
(Sequence 56A) Sergeant Manuel Battista.
(Sequence 79A) David Gompert ...
(Sequence 52A) Lieutenant Sevilla's mother.
(Sequence 60A) Jose Maria Arca (labelled as "Captain Arca").
(Sequence 63A) Captain Carbello.
(Sequence 65A) Lieutenant Ricardo ...
(Sequence 17B) Alan Whitworth.
(Sequence 49) Lieutenant Guillermo Owen Crippa.
(Sequence 61A) Argentine Air Force personnel Jose Julia and Hector Destri.
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Programme looking at SAS operations during the Falklands War and focusing in part on a daring night-time raid made weeks in advance of the invasion. The assault force were flown into an isolated Argentinian air ...
Journalist Max Hastings returns to the Falklands for the first time since the war.
After a brief introduction, which covers the political and strategic background, the command structure and the despatch of the Task Force, Part 1 concentrates on the planning and conduct of the landings, including the preliminary and diversionary ...
Port Stanley would clearly be the key battlefield; Part 2 highlights the importance of concentrating the maximum number of battalions/commandos for that battle as quickly as possible. It deals with the Argentine air attacks, the problems of logistics ...
Part 3 does not aim to give equal coverage to all battalion/commando actions. It adopts a theme, the Application of Force, and illustrates selected aspects: (a) The Indirect Approach - 42 Commando's attack on Mt. Harriet, coming in, as it did, ...
Part 4, taking place in the studio, is a series of discussions with selected participants, designed to highlight areas from which, with their experience, useful lessons can be drawn. These include: (a) Higher level command and control; (b) Command ...
Marking the 20th anniversary of the Falklands War, this documentary relays the impact of the war at home, particularly with regard to the turnaround in the political fortunes of PM Margaret Thatcher.
