(Reel 1) After departing Little Aden from Salerno Camp (Coldstream Barracks), Hughes records northwards journey in protected convoy on road to Dhala in Land Rover with anti-roll bars and plated against land mines. Fair-haired guardsman is seventeen ...
Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.
Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the ...
Unedited Rhodesian footage.
A map pinpointing the location of Rhodesia in the African continent; scenes of black Rhodesians; whites at a polling station; Ian Smith at the Commonwealth Relations office.
Documentary about the Hong Kong Chinese as represented by the Lung family and their deep involvement with ancestral glory, coupled with a dynamic, forward-looking industrial scene.
Naval publicity and recruitment film.
The hero, Terry Gardner, is discontented with his job on a building site, where the Welsh foreman restricts him to the menial role of tea boy. Terry decides to join the Navy, ...
A hunter kills a sacred lion and is cursed by a native chief. Unhealed he returns to Africa and kills the chief, and is healed.
A profile on Dominica.
Various scenes in The Gambia
Production / Donor Details: Mr Dudley joined the Colonial Office after WW2 and was sent to Nigeria, initially to carry out a land survey assessing the damage done to agricultural land by tin mining ...
Field Officers from the Agricultural Department are helping farmers in Basutoland (now Lesotho) by advising on new methods for improving crop yields, pastures and livestock, soil conservation and the use of machines. The school of ...
Mainland Chinese refugees in Hong Kong.
Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...
Hovercraft SRN5 is tested as a patrol and transport craft.
CUs of Captain Peter Beacon at the controls as the hovercraft moves off. CUs of the radar and radio operators, and ...
DOCUMENTARY. A personal report on the year 1965 by James Cameron.
Main title over stills of James Cameron and events of the year (00:25). Cameron introduces the programme outlining the major ...
Scenes in Malaya, 1956
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he ...
Scenes in Malaya, 1956-57
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time ...
Scenes in Malaya, 1957
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he ...
Scenes in Malaya 1956, 1960
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time ...
An interview with Ian Smith about the future of Rhodesia.
African Safari adventure film: a hunting expedition comes to grief when they fail to placate the natives. But the leader escapes, and reaches the British camp with the natives at his heels.
Amateur record shot by young Able Seaman Richard Carver, when serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East in 1962-1965, records off-duty scenes in Singapore and on nearby Snake Island, and naval search party boarding local vessel Naga Mas off Sarawak ...
Lime juice production. Made to mark the centenary of the sponsoring firm, L. Rose & Co. Ltd., The sponsor's estates on the island of Dominica where limes are grown and processed.
In 1966 Dominica was on the brink of major ...
Harold Wilson explains the government's decision to send troops to Zambia and to tighten trade sanctions against Rhodesia.
Amateur film shot by RAF serviceman Bob Andrews while serving in RAF 105 Squadron and 114 Squadron with RAF Transport Command during the 1960s records ground and air views of transport and supply operations in the area ...
A REPORT ON THE RHODESIAN SITUATION
A report on Harold Wilson's visit to Rhodesia for talks with Ian Smith.
At a press conference in Salisbury, Ian Smith answers questions on Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
Michael Charlton reports from Salisbury on the situation in Rhodesia following U.D.I. (Unilateral Declaration of Independence).
A REPORT ON THE RHODESIAN SITUATION
A report on the unilateral declaration of independence by Rhodesia with George Ffitch, Alastair Burnet, Edward Heath, Joseph Grimond, Ian Smith and the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole.
People in the street air their views on the Rhodesian question.
Unedited Rhodesian footage.
Harold Wilson meets Ian Smith at 10 Downing Street; crowds in the streets; a meeting to discuss UDI; a map pinpointing the location of Rhodesia in the African continent; headlines and ...
Harold Wilson talks with Robin Day about the recently imposed sanctions on oil exports to Rhodesia.
Standard travelogue - family accompany father on a business trip to Rhodesia - all the usual sites are visited.
Portrait of the British forces helping to defend Aden.
Behind the tranquillity of the Aden coast (sunbathing on beach) are the "jagged dangerous mountains where Federal Arab Troops stand guard against rebels" (hill ...
Report in three sections.
1. British Gurkha troops guard against Indonesian infiltration in Borneo. Soldiers are seen at a front camp receiving supplies dropped from a Beverly, on patrol in the jungle, and preparing ...
Report in three sections.
1. Background to the fighting in Kashmir. Indian forces have now crossed the UN ceasefire line and are seen on patrol, counting enemy dead and manning check-points in Srinagar. Gouma Nkala ...
Report in three sections.
1. Terrorist campaign to force Britain to grant Aden independence before 1968 has spread from the Radfan Mountains where the Army and RAF have been attacking rebel positions to Qatar City ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report on the military tension on the border between Sikkim and China reveals the vulnerability of the small Indian protectorate. Film of a few Chinese soldiers with cameras gives no ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report on the likely consequences for Rhodesia if the London negotiations end in deadlock and Prime Minister Smith makes a unilateral declaration of independence. UDI would be treason, ...
Report in two sections.
1. Interview with Garfield Todd, who is under house arrest, and partial coverage of a news conference given by his gaoler Ian Smith. Former Prime Minister is pessimistic about Rhodesia's ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report on British Guiana which is negotiating for independence by February 1966, assesses the possibility of renewed violence after that date. Prime Minister Forbes Burnham (interview) ...
