Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records harbour scenes in Singapore, tin dredging in Kuala Lumpur, open tin mine at Hong Fatt and car ...

Part I: Gurkhas in basic training; negotiating obstacle course; of fire and a ravine. Transporting lorry across river on raft; men cross river by swimming with rifles.

Part II: Transporting kit across river; by floating on sticks and by pushing ...

"Kai Yuan" (10 April 1940): camera focuses on tribespeople in distinctive costume trading with Chinese in the walled city. Long shot coverage over Chinese shoulders of the public execution by shooting of two alleged spies by soldiers of the Chinese ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Chu Hsiung scenes during his tour of French Indo-China, China and ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records Bombay street scenes, Colombo and wife and two sons on beach at Mount Lavinia, Ceylon, ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records tourist and family scenes in Hong Kong, including busy street life, the harbour area, ...

A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He is ordained and despite being beaten by villagers he wins over his family who themselves are ...

An Afrikaner farmer and his African farm hands drive a team of twelve oxen from Capetown to the interior. Their progress is contrasted with the journey from Capetown to Johannesburg by van train and aeroplane.

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I. Prague Trade Fair. Economic success of German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is demonstrated at Prague Trade Fair. Interior scenes include an electric train, while outside visitors inspect a locomotive.

II. Hitler Youth rowing and ...

I. Tientsin.

British soldiers detrain on the quayside and form up before embarking on the Tak Sang out of Hong Kong. Surrender of Britain to Japanese pressure to evacuate this Far Eastern garrison is described as a ...

No title or credits. Depicts voyages of the London Missionary Society's mission ship, John Williams VI, in the Pacific Islands and Australia.

Scenes at Purbeck Lodge and Government House, Naini Tal 1938; Lucinda with servants; New House, Lucknow, 1939, and garden show; boy scout ceremony at Government House, Allahabad. Sir Harry Haig's farewell party at Government House ...