Part I: The arrival of young civilians at primary training centre. "Royal Armoured Corps", A13 Cruisers, A10 Matilda and Valentine tanks on manoeuvres, 'Churchill' being used to demolish house. "Royal Artillery", firing of light and heavy artillery ...

General views of Gondar, Ethiopia, including the fort with prisoners and Ras Seyoum's castle. Lieutenant-General Wetherall, Acting GOC East Africa with Major General Foulkes, GOC 12th African Division, ...

British and Indian troops in action around Cheren (Keren), Eritrea.

Troops load up trucks with supplies for the front line on a portion of railway captured from the ...

Shots from Indian Film Unit. Capture of Massawa, Eritrea. Indian troops, Italian prisoners. Garwali Regiment. Free French Commander. General Heath watches operations. Sunken vessel in harbour.

A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of "an outside" threat (obviously Japan).

The film, like the pattern of strength it seeks to portray, is based on Singapore ("one ...

START 00:00:00 Colour footage of animals at Durban Zoo, South Africa: a lion and lioness in their enclosure. Seals by a pool. A rhinoceros in its enclosure. Ostriches in their enclosure.

00:00:34. Colour footage of birds at Colombo Zoo, Sri ...

A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.

An opening sequence of blackout, ARP practice and maps showing India's far-flung strategic frontiers (Egypt to Singapore) suggests the sort of ...

Australian troops and nurses arrive by hospital ship at Singapore. Medical stores are unloaded and crates of Canadian Ford equipment, addressed to the Minister of Supplies, Singapore. The men and nurses ...

Pan American flying boat "Anzac Clipper" escorted by Brewster Buffaloes lands on the water at Singapore Civil Airport and taxies away. Alfred and Lady Diana Duff Cooper leave the plane, followed by Mr ...

Amateur film shot by a local Bahamian cameraman records the life in the Bahamas of the twenty English evacuee schoolboys evacuated via SS Orduna from Belmont School in Hassocks, Sussex for the period from 1940 to 1944, and shows the Duke of Windsor ( ...

Production footage/unedited material for a travelogue about Kenya and Mombasa.

No titles. An Asian ivory carver at work; an African brings in a large elephant tusk; the carver and another Asian discuss the carving of a lion; the ...

I. "Conference on Freedom." At the second Inter-Allied meeting held at St James Palace, chairman Eden introduces Maisky representing the new ally, the USSR. The Russian ambassador speaks.

II. "Liverpool holds tank week parade." Covenanters and ...

I. "Britain and Soviet meet in Iran." Indian troops having entered Iran north of Baghdad pass through Kermanshah before meeting Soviet troops near Kazvin. Russian officer fires Very light now that Allied front stretches from Arctic to Libya. All is ...

4 Items from BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS Vol 12 No 606.

Title: THE MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC WARFARE. President of the Board of Trade, Hugh Dalton, reports on the progress of his economic defences against Germany. He ...

(1) "Gibraltar's New Governor". Group MS of Lord Gort, Vice-Admiral Somerville and Lieutenant General Sir Clive Liddell.

(2) "Britannia Rules the Mediterranean". LS of fleet at sea. Harbour scenes, Valletta, Malta. MLS, HMS Ark Royal. Hunt ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BURMA PRESENTS FIGHTER SQUADRON CANUCK NURSES LOOK AFTER BLITZED KIDDIES PREMIER WITH U.S. HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN BOY SCOUTS MEMORIAL SERVICE GREEKS TAKE ARGYROKASTRO SOUTH ...

"THE REGENTS PARK ZOO TAKES CENSUS OF ITS RESIDENTS" (53-65); MS a keeper preparing to make a note in a book (70); the keeper looking at two polar bears, in an enclosure (77); CS polar bears (80); large brown bear (83); MS bear ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BRITISH ADVANCE INTO ABYSSINIA BATTLE DEMOSNTRATION BY OUR ARMY LORD HALIFAX LEAVES FOR U.S.A. SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS MOVE TO BATTLE ZONE MR WILLKIE GREETS US WITH A SMILE ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AT HOME THE STORY IS OF PREPAREDNESS FOR ANY ORDEAL NEW CRUISER VISITED BY HOLLAND'S QUEEN BRAVE SOLDIERS OF GREECE CONTINUE TO AMAZE THE WORLD MR EMNZIES COMES TO BRITAIN BY WAY OF ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: R.A.F. RESCUE BOATS AT WORK WITH THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN ABYSSINIA AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR SINGAPORE NEW TRICKS BY THE NEW ARMY AERODROMES BUILT FROM THE MUD R.A.F. HAS ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: DE GAULLE'S ARMY ON MANOEUVRES BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC ARMY PRACTISES INVADING, NOW SOUTH AFRICANS END SOMALILAND DRIVE PREMIER STARS IN PEACEFUL ROLE

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AFTER THE BATTLE OF MATAPAN BY CONVOY TO GIBRALTAR BATTLE FOR KEREN AUSTRALIANS WELCOME U.S. FLEET ON GUARD AT SINGAPORE HONG KONG IS READY GENERAL DE GAULLE IN CAIRO PRIME ...

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MR MENZIES ON EVE OF SAILING REVIEWS WAR SITUATION ANZACS IN THE NEWS FROM MALAY STATES TO THEIR HOMELAND AUSSIES SETTLE DOWN TO IT IN MALAYA EMPIRE AIR FIGHTERS OF ...

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MR MENZIES GOES HOME TO REPORT BACK FROM GREECE HOME GUARDS, KING'S GUARD GORT TAKES OVER DEFENCE OF ROCK LEASE-LEND AID NEARS CLIMAX ERITREA - THE END

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GIBRALTAR DEFENCES HIS MAJESTY SEES PARATROOPERS SINKING OF 'BISMARK' NEW FIGHT FIGHTER OUR EASTERN BASTION

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WINGS OVER SINGAPORE NAVY REPELS ATTACK ON CONVOY INDIAN TRAINEES IN BRITAIN FALL OF ADDIS ABABA MORE DISPATCHES FROM THE WESTERN DESERT BISMARK SUNK

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ADVANCE INTO SYRIA HEADS NEWS FROM MIDDLE EAST ALLIED TROOPS CROSS SYRIAN BORDER BRITISH PINCH OUT IRAQ REVOLT REFUGE IN PALESTINE FOR KING PETER GERMAN PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ALLIED ENTRY INTO SYRIA VICTORY TORCH FOR MR CHURCHILL MR CHURCHILL RECEIVES VICTORY TORCH IN LONDON NAVAL VISIT TO GAMBIA CANADIANS GET NEW COLOURS DEFENCE PARADE IN NEW ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: READY FOR ANYTHING QUEEN MARY RECEIVES MOBILE CANTEENS NEWS FROM THE WESTERN DESERT 'BEAUFIGHTERS' IN PRODUCTION NEW ZEALAND GETS V.C. LIFE AT GIBRALTAR RED CROSS SHIP GIVEN BY DUTCH ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ALL EYES ON SINGAPORE LORD LOUIS TAKES COMMAND HOP HARVEST IN BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA INSPECTS SHORE DEFENCES ROYAL MARINES AS KING'S SQUAD FRONT LINE PLANES, BACK ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: CANADIANS PARADE IN STRENGTH ROYAL VISIT TO LETCHWORTH SOVIET WAR ZONE SPECIAL MR CHURCHILL MEETS PILOTS AND WORKERS AUSTRALIAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR OVERSEAS WITH THE ARMY IN ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: STIRLING BOMBERS-FIRST PICTURES LATEST FROM SINGAPORE SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS IN USA EMPIRE AND SOVIET ARMIES MEET IN IRAN ARMY EXERCISE IN ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: AT GIBRALTAR, NEWS IS OF ROYAL VISIT OF INSPECTION KING AND QUEEN SEE MOUNTING EFFORT OF EMPIRE AND U.S. PRESENTING COLOURS TO CANADIANS PRODUCTS OF EMPIRE TRAINING SCHEME STIFF TRAINING ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: SINGAPORE REINFORCED DUTCH LAW COURT TO SIT IN LONDON SHOOTING WAR NEAR FOR U.S. SOUTH AFRICA SAYS 'TOTAL WAR' CHURCHILL VISITS NORTH OF ENGLAND MINES IN MILLIONS

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. CAPTURES NAZI SHIP SAILING UNDER AMERICAN COLOURS AVIATION 2ND EAGLE SQUADRON AND THE HURRICANE BOMBER. U.S. P HURRICANE NOW BECOMES A BOMBER RI.2. MALAYA, ON GUARD, ...

For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: SPRINGBOKS ON LEAVE AIR AFFAIRS IN U.S.A. ROYAL TOUR OF SOUTH WALES EMPIRE HELP IN ABUNDANCE FIELD-MARSHAL'S BATON MIDDLE EAST FRONT

A compilation of film of factory production of war material in Britain and throughout the Empire.

A minimal degree of continuity is provided by film of King George VI visiting various factories; also much use is made ...

Hero Tracks down the traitor betraying convoy movements to the enemy.

Mules on Mount Olympus. Scottish soldiers eating at Othello's Tower at Famagusta, Cyprus. Soldiers cheering. Local farmers employing traditional farming methods: yoking of oxen, threshing, winnowing corn ...

Firing practice by the Territorial Army at Limassol, Cyprus. Men rush to their posts, swing the gun round and fire off a few rounds. Another gun position, the gun is being operated by a remote control ...

The Forestry Company of the Cyprus Volunteer Force at Troodos, Cyprus. The men fall in and fetch arms and march along the forest paths. They rake away pine cones and sticks as fire prevention and fell ...

Hotchkiss gun training in Troodos, Cyprus. Cadets are instructed by a British sergeant-major. Cadets undergoing physical training. Bayonet drill and squad drill. Map reading instruction.

Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and documentary footage of the geography and wildlife of the area, with extensive sequences of a range of levels of gold ...

A tribute to the Indian troops who had fought in the Libyan campaign.

Over film of Indian troops marching near Pyramids, commentator speaks of Indians serving in many areas overseas but especially in Libya: this ...

Netherlands East Indies Air Force at Singapore, flying and landing. They are welcomed by Air Vice-Marshal Pulford and inspected by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. The aircraft are Lockheed ...

Film about life in a typical English village. The people in the film go about their daily business: women are doing the laundry and other housework; the children go to school, where, amongst other things the girls are taught how to use a ...