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Recruiting film for Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), based around an interview for an officer's commission.
Colonel ...
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, following the experiences of a new cadet.
A 16 year old boy on ...
Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong ...
Short documentary, with a recruiting aim, showing the work of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
"The Space Age ...
Documentary showing life in the Women's Royal Naval Service, described by Wrens in their own words.
The demands and ...
Recruitment film for the Royal Navy, focusing on the "Dragon Squadron", based in Hong Kong. The Dragon Squadron is responsible ...
Film showing the variety of roles in the Royal Navy by illustrating four seamen, each working in a ...
The background to the Pearce Commission Report on Rhodesia.
An interview with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the rejection by Rhodesian opinion of the independence proposals worked out ...
The rle of medical staff in the Royal Navy.
The various kinds of medical staff in the Navy are ...
Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.
Life in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Training at Reading (careers office flashback), receiving uniform. "You are a WREN... ...
Short documentary about RAF Transport Command's regular flights to the Far East narrated by (and starring) Jon Rollason.
Reporter ...
The variety and responsibility of life in the WRAF.
Airwomen of the WRAF are introduced at an Operation Flight ...
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ...
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an ...
Naval publicity and recruitment film.
The hero, Terry Gardner, is discontented with his job on a building site, where ...
Portrait of the British forces helping to defend Aden.
Behind the tranquillity of the Aden coast (sunbathing on beach) ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.
A record of Trinidad at the time of its independence.
DOCUMENTARY. Tanganyika on the eve of independence. An interview with Julius Nyerere.
Dramatised documentary using a story about faulty navigational radar to illustrate RAF life and work in the Far ...
Film made by the COI for the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. Shows how African children live, ...
The construction of the Kariba Dam; opening by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother 17/5/60; removal of wildlife from the affected area ...