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A sympathetic look at "the storm centre of the war in the Far East".

Reel 1 explains China's geography and culture, concentrating on 20th century history of efforts by Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-shek to modernise ...

TELEVISION NEWSREELGreat Britain

ABOUT BRITAIN [ITV, 1970-1988]

Documentary about a small town business in the Scottish borders that exports cashmere sweaters to Hong Kong.

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, possibly in Chungking. A group of four ...

CAPTAIN GARNETT COLLECTIONGB

Home movie of HMS Decoy and Delight on the China Station, visiting Shanghai and Swatow, in the summer of 1938.

In the summer of 1938 Captain Garnett (then Lieutenant) was temporarily ...

CAPTAIN GARNETT COLLECTIONGB

Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring scenes in and around Hong Kong, early 1938.

The film begins with street scenes in Hong Kong and a sequence of children playing at a ...

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"Shamshun - Japanese on the frontier": Chinese porters pass to and fro along and beside railway tracks, partially blocked by sandbagging and barbed wire on British side of frontier. British officer walks forward to meet his Japanese Army counterpart ...

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

Men of 14th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division (the Chindits), having been evacuated by air from Burma are seen at a rest camp at Tinsukia (in Assam, India) ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near Lahore, India (Pakistan).

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

Chinese troops of New First Army, veterans of the Burma campaign, board American landing ships at Kowloon docks in Hong Kong for transport to Manchuria ...

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

Chinese Air Force trainees undergoing ...

FIRST TUESDAYGreat Britain

Series of programmes which feature a variety of documentaries from the UK and abroad.