Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.

139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.

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139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...

Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...

(152A) September 1938 (and 1943): Building of Ein Hamifratz settlement. Preparation of houses to be transported to new settlement; loading equipment. Site before settlement (clock - 4.00 am). Jewish Settlement Police move up to site of new ...

(191A) October 1939: Harvest in Emek (Jezreel Valley). Alexander Zerd's son on horseback. Wheatfields - harvest by combine and by hand (guarded by armed horsemen). Bringing in the harvest. Jewish Settlement Police on guard. Harvest ...

(209C) February 1940: "War comes to Palestine", fitting gas masks for children in Tel Aviv.

(No newsreel no; Box 719-21) Spring 1940: "Civilians alert yourselves", ARP activities in Tel Aviv, building shelters.

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(61A) November 1936: High Commissioner Wauchope at official opening ceremony of the Bennison Jewish Hospital near Sharon. Briefly in synch and then being taken around the brand new buildings. The Secretary of the Histradut (the Jewish Labour ...

European wedding with guests and full wedding party reception. Harbour port scenes with shipping traffic. Voyage on large ocean liner. Coastal shots from ship perhaps arriving in India.

Miscellany of country life showing agriculture and fishery. Also the construction of a large building using 'Biblical Methods'

Oceanliner Vovage with extensive shots of Aden and its achorage showng scenery and shipping. Ocean voyage shows on board festivities such as 'the crossing of the line'.

Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large oceanside town on Indian Ocean (East Africa or India).

Lush vegetation. Scenery footage including mountains and village or tourist accommodation set amongst the high terrain.

War Memorial Ceremony in a small East African town with Governor and followed by military march past and African military band.

East African coast area showing local buildings villas and some in Arab style and others showing some old German Colonial influence.

East African coastal area showing city traffic and city buildings some of which are Mosques and Arabic in influence. Hill country scenes with local villages and then tree felling activities and the treating of timber in a country ...

Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya.

Bathing in sea at night, on guard with Mosquito nets over faces; digging trench, native boy climbs palm tree and throws down coconuts to troops; men get into patrol boat in river ...

Amateur film. Coasting along Borneo from Sumatra to British North Borneo (now called Sabah).

"Damage to river bank by 1939 floods": muddy bank with exposed under-strata and small landslips. Estate buildings. "Coasting round Borneo". "Kuching, ...

Documentary about the food supply of Britain, how it comes from overseas and the work of Royal Navy in protecting convoys.

Film combines library material with actuality footage and specially recorded sequences. Spitfires Squadron scramble to intercept Heinkel He 111s reported by Royal Observer Corps spotters. Control centre gives orders ...

Amateur film shot by Guy Wickenden shows the public life and celebrations of the British in pre-1940 Cairo, voyage home to UK in 1937, arrival of the 2nd New Zealand Division in 1941 and Wickenden's young family evacuated ...

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Titles on this item include: KING GEORGE VISITS INDIAN ARMY CAMP 'CLARE' FLIES BACK BRINGS U.S. PILOTS MRS. CHURCHILL AT NEW ZEALND CLUB The ARMY GIVES NELSON A TREAT CANADIAN PILOTS GET THEIR ...

For a detailed shot list contatc the NFTVA. Items include: LONDON ENDURES THE GREAT RAIDS NEW ZEALAND BAND PLAYS FOR LONDONERS NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER WAR MINISTER WARNS AGAINST INVASION NEW ZEALAND TROOPS TRAINING IN BRITAIN ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AS AIR BLITZ PETERS, BRITAIN AWAITS ISSUE OF INVASION THREAT KING INSPECTS PUBLIC AIR RAID SHELTERS MR MORRISON INSPECTS PUBLIC AIR RAID SHELTERS FIRST RECIPIENTS OF NEW ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: 2 MEN WITHOUT WINGS BRITAIN'S INCREASING NAVAL STRENGTH BOMBS DAMAGE CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL NEWS IN BRIEF WOMEN ON SERVICE IN KENYA TROOPS ENTERTAINED IN A COACH SERGT. ...

For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY GROWS APACE AIR WAYS AREN'T ALWAYS WAR WAYS BIG BARRAGE YOU NEVER HEAR EDEN VISITS ARMY IN MIDDLE EAST: EGYPT U.S. PILOTS FORM R.A.F. SQUADRON "GRAF ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AMERICANS WITH THE CANADIAN ARMY SOUTH AFRICA BUILDS ITS OWN ARMOURED CARS BOMBERS AND GUNNERS IN THE MAKING ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE GROWS ARMY'S ROAD BUILDERS ITALY ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: YOUNG ENGLAND PREPARES CONVOYS CARRY ON PROVINCIAL BUSES HELP LONDON QUEEN VISITS HELP CENTRE TRAINING R.A.F. PILOTS DUCHESS OF KENT AT GREEK SERVICE PIGEONS DO THEIR BIT ...

For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: PERSONALITIES: A TRIBUTE TO MR CHAMBERLAIN AND OTHER ITEMS V.C.OFFICER WINS CITY FREEDOM AND BRIDE POLISH PILOTS VISITED BY AIR SECRETARY EX-AIR CHIEF TO BE GOVERNOR ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: LIGHTS OF LONDON AT DUSK MR EDEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARMOURED MIGHT FOR DESERT WAR FIRST V.C.FOR A FIGHTER PILOT JERVIS BAY CONVOY SAFE HOME AIRMEN ARE TRAINING IN SOUTH ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: R.A.F. TOPICS INT HE NEWS OLD ORDER CHANGETH - A BIT! ARMY LIFTS VEIL ON LATEST GUNS TROUBLE FOR DUCE WHEREVER YOU LOOK THEY SWEEP MINES AND SKIES, TOO! CANTEEN IN TUBES ...

For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: DUNKIRK BOATMEN HONOURED A SOUTH AFRICA'S HOME GUARD KING RECEIVES A 'DECORATION' ALL IN A CONVOY DAY'S WORK TRAINED IN CANADA ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: QUEEN INSPECTS CANTEENS PRESENTED BY THE COLONIES QUEEN SEES COLONIES' HANDSOME GIFTS NEW PLANE FOR BRITAIN SHOWS IT'S PACES ARTIFICIAL SUNSHINE FOR SUBMARINE CREWS LORD ...

Scenes in Cawnpore 1942: Snake charmers Auxiliary Force Camp (Home Guard). Aircraft crash (Lockheed "Lysander") at Cawnpore Aerodrome. Self on bike at home, Albert Road. Bathing in the River Ganges 1943: At Simla (a hill station ...

Scenes in Cawnpore

Scenes in Cawnpore (Kanpur): Cricket on Green Park.

Outside the bungalow at 13 Albert Road

"Ordnance Club" secretary and staff.

Friends

At Simla in the Himalayas 1944-45.

Government House and views ( ...

Monkey wallahs in Cawnpore (Kanpur). Agra: the Taj Mahal getting a face lift. Agra: the fort Ranikhet - a hill station in the Himalayas. Summer bungalow Cawnpore: goats with servants' children. 1948 Memorial service to Mahatama ...

INTEREST. Opening shot of the cargo ship, the "Ionian" lying in bay at Gibraltar. The cargo is unloaded and the ship prepares to sail. The furnace is stacked up and the engineer tests the oil-level. The ship sails on from Gibraltar to Malta. ...

1) Native troops (in Northern Nigeria?) parading at small barracks or guardpost; 2) Africans along a road; 3) river with waterfalls; 4) aerial shots of landscape; 5) white men erecting or standing at some kind of aerial; 6) teaparty in garden with ...

1947: 1) Dead person (possibly male), surrounded by family members; 2) Northern Nigerian scenes in modern area; 3) various shots of people relaxing, mostly whites; 1942: 4) Assob Falls(?) swimming scenes; African boys and young men in a kind of Church ...

1945: 1) Maize, guinea corn (sorghum) growing; 2) native gathering with dancing; (young men being beaten - Sharo Festival); 3) building a house; 4) African medicine man, dancing on Jos plateau, Nigeria, or eastward; 5) possibly an agricultural ...

Life in Ceylon is shown. Elephants are seen and views of Colombo and the walled city of Galle are included.

Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and some blind children are shown.

"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 ...

START 00:00:00 Kodak Safety Film logo. A road sign in Arabic and in French for Alexandria. Date palms. Dark shots of a man making spaghetti over a hot plate in a shop.

00:02:08 Alexandria: Egyptian dockyard workers stand next to a tear in HMS ...

INTEREST. This appears to be part of a film contrasting scenes in an English village with African village life.

A woman playing with a baby in a garden. The baby in a pram (88). Old man on a bench smoking a pipe (102). A village ...

20 November. One of the supply ships of the first convoy to enter Tobruk since its capture by the Eighth Army moves across the harbour with a navy patrol boat passing in the foreground. Another boat ...

Bata employees celebrate St Wenceslas Day (28 September) and proclaim Czech solidarity with the British Allies' fight for freedom.

Commentary describes over views of Indian jungle and the Bata Shoe Company model ...

War-time service in the in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Zanzibar, the Trucial States, and St Helena & Ascension Islands.