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Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the ...
Gulmarg, Autumn
A commercial for Co-op tea in the guise of a documentary about tea production.
The film shows how tea ...
Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while ...
A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the ...
The situation in India in 1942.
Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in ...
The Indian contribution to the war effort.
Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, ...
Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks ...
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...
I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted ...
India.
A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this ...
Life in the Indian Army Unit shown is possibly the 15th Punjab Regiment).
The day begins with reveill and ...
A survey of the strategic situation of the British Empire in the Far East in the face of ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BURMA PRESENTS FIGHTER SQUADRON CANUCK NURSES LOOK AFTER BLITZED KIDDIES PREMIER ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: R.A.F. RESCUE BOATS AT WORK WITH THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN ABYSSINIA ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AFTER THE BATTLE OF MATAPAN BY CONVOY TO GIBRALTAR BATTLE FOR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:
MR MENZIES ON EVE OF SAILING REVIEWS WAR SITUATION ANZACS IN THE NEWS FROM ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GIBRALTAR DEFENCES HIS MAJESTY SEES PARATROOPERS SINKING OF 'BISMARK' NEW FIGHT FIGHTER OUR ...
WINGS OVER SINGAPORE NAVY REPELS ATTACK ON CONVOY INDIAN TRAINEES IN BRITAIN FALL OF ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ADVANCE INTO SYRIA HEADS NEWS FROM MIDDLE EAST ALLIED TROOPS CROSS SYRIAN BORDER ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ALL EYES ON SINGAPORE LORD LOUIS TAKES COMMAND HOP HARVEST IN BRITAIN PRIME ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: SINGAPORE REINFORCED DUTCH LAW COURT TO SIT IN LONDON SHOOTING WAR NEAR FOR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. CAPTURES NAZI SHIP SAILING UNDER AMERICAN COLOURS AVIATION 2ND EAGLE SQUADRON AND ...
Hero Tracks down the traitor betraying convoy movements to the enemy.
A tribute to the Indian troops who had fought in the Libyan campaign.
Over film of Indian troops marching ...
Zionist settlements in Palestine.
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training ...
A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and ...
From a true story - School pupil Maung Ba at school writes an essay on why he will remain a ...
A picture, early in the war, of the armed solidarity of the British Empire.
The film serves to illustrate ...
The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their ...
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). ...
An explanation of the background to the War in the Far East and of its probable strategic development, ...
Reel One: The film opens with the title "WOMEN + WAR" with an illustration of St George and the Dragon, ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large ...
(152A) September 1938 (and 1943): Building of Ein Hamifratz settlement. Preparation of houses to be transported to new settlement; loading ...
(191A) October 1939: Harvest in Emek (Jezreel Valley). Alexander Zerd's son on horseback. Wheatfields - harvest by combine and by ...
(209C) February 1940: "War comes to Palestine", fitting gas masks for children in Tel Aviv.
(No newsreel no; Box 719-21) Spring ...
(61A) November 1936: High Commissioner Wauchope at official opening ceremony of the Bennison Jewish Hospital near Sharon. Briefly in synch ...
Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya.
Bathing in sea at night, on guard with Mosquito nets over faces; digging trench, ...
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 ...
Mrs Chisman has her horse brought from the stables at her colonial bungalow. Her groom in attendance. She gallops the ...
Film showing the food contributions supplied to Britain by various colonies and dominions.
Although more land has been given ...
Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.
Footage of India's coastline is used as ...
Scenes of an Indian Durbar.