British television news report interviews Major Vivian Robinson of Second Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles, presently countering Indonesians crossing into Borneo, and shows Wessex helicopter landing Gurkhas in jungle, patrol, radio communications, food, ...
845 Squadron operates Wessex helicopters against Indonesian guerrillas in Brunei.
Aerial views from helicopter flying over the jungle. Cut to helicopter now landed by a river - supplies have been landed and are taken ...
Unedited colour film of Royal Marine Commandos in four jeeps and two trucks on patrol in a rocky arid district surrounded by mountains.
Two Marines sit perched on a cliff while the camera pans towards the mountains ...
Current affairs report examines Britain's efforts to contain Indonesian guerrilla activity in Borneo and Sarawak (Malaysia), where 1st Battalion 7th Gurkhas are seen on patrol and are interviewed, and raises ...
Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Peter Goldney of Royal Signals, when seconded to Army Air Corps, 653 Light Aircraft Squadron, Army Air Corps, records service in Aden State between July 1962 and April 1964 during campaign by nationalist forces against ...
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's cousin, with whom she builds up a world of their own.
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados.
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, her charge and a callow subaltern. Baker hopes to escape by river to Khartoum but the wreckage of ...
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 ...
A British regiment stationed in a newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal is ordered to hand over command to the African Captain Abraham pending the result of political ...
1. Military moments ; N. Rhodesian 1st. Battalion's last parade before Independence Day 1964. Last Queen's Birthday Parade at Ndola (Regular Army, T.A. and Police Units participating) Pres. Kaunda visiting a T.F. camp at Tug Argan ...
1. the opening of the Zambian National Assembly 1964 - with tribal dancing, official celebrations and speech from the rostrum. 2. Family footage (visit to official gardens in Salisbury, Army family quaters, family pets, children ...
HMS Centaur embarks men of 45 Royal Marine Commando, Ferret armoured cars of 16/5 Lancers, and RAF Belvedere helicopters for the voyage from Aden to Tanganyika.
LS pan over Aden ...
A pictorial record of activity on HMS Hermes during her second commission, starting in the Mediterranean and ending in Hong Kong.
Aerial sequence showing HMS Hermes entering Grand Harbour ...
The geography of Hong Kong: its importance as a great free sea port; its growth as a manufacturing city and the efforts being made to house and provide work for refugees from China
The history and development of the site - a new township for industrial working blacks.
Marking the independence of Zambia in 1964, the aspects of the country, its potential as a devleoping country and something of its people.
Independent Malta G.C. organises her tourist industry, plans to overcome the wat er shortage and endeavours to find more jobs at home to stop emigration Documentary on the fate and development of Malta after the loss of the naval doc kyard ...
Bechaunaland. Arrival of work party by lorry in open rolling grass country. Tools and equipment taken from lorry. Hole dug to take the feet of tubular steel tripod tower which is then built up in sections by the African work team. ...
