Footage of Sarnath and Benares; film of the Santal tribe of North East India. Possibly made as a teaching film ...

ACTUALITY. Garden party given by Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India during the Calcutta `season'.

Main title (10). The garden party guests ...

Men of 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment (of 23rd Long-Range Penetration (LRP) Brigade, part of 3rd Indian Division (also known as ...

Part 1, shot by Sergeant Abbott: Pan around Kranji POW camp showing huts amongst trees, men walking about and others ...

Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author ...

START 00:00:00 Views filmed inside a drydock (probably the one at Whampoa Dock from 21 to 24 October 1939) showing ...

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson of the Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley Rifles), Indian Army while serving on the North-West Frontier ...

Amateur film showing a picnic and a fishing trip in Scotland, and Indian troops being trained by British officers in ...

Reel 1: Men laden with kit board the Otranto at Bombay harbour. Female personnel of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force ...

Drama. Historical. The child of a sepoy is dangerously ill. Despite her husband's prejudices, the sepoy's wife goes to the ...

British servicemen go riding in Darjeeling, Bengal Province, India.

A mountain range shrouded with cloud. Five British servicemen ride ...

Amateur film of a climbing party in Kashmir.

Team of men with packs walking through mountain pass (11). Snow and mountains, ...

Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.

Amateur footage: Shillong races, golf, picnics (attended by Lord and Lady Willingdon) and market scenes.

START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least ...

Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in ...

Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.

Lockheed ...

Newsreel item on air travel to India.

Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots ...

Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.

Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry ...

A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) ...

A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a ...

Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from ...

Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt ...

Short section of footage of a railway locomotive for 'So This Is India'.

A train steams towards camera and ...

Amateur film. The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh, particularly at Chirala, about 200 miles north of Madras on the east ...

Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at ...

The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...

TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the ...

The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to ...

India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves ...

Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.

Two British officers are saluted ...

Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.

Bullock ...

Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General ...

The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special ...

Main title (2). A fakir (dressed only in loin cloth) helps his two assistants to set up a pattern of ...

INTEREST. Scenes from the Far East.

Crowds of native people at a quayside passing items from hand to hand to load ...

Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of ...

Tanks and infantry of 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, supported by aircraft, overcome unexpected Japanese resistance at the ...

Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythology associated with them.

Three holy men sitting on a raised stone platform ...

Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the ...

Documentary on life in a desert town.

Tanks and men from 255th Armoured Brigade and 17th Indian Division spearhead the advance across the Irrawaddy River ...

As 17th Indian Division (IV Corps) approach Meiktila, Burma, they encounter more evidence of Japanese sabotage to halt ...

The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...