POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB
The Commanding Officer of HMS Centaur relinquishes command at Malta.
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Remarks: uncatalogued.
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - TRIESTEGB
Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers being evacuated from Trieste to Malta on the light carrier HMS Centaur, and the frigate HMS Whirlwind.
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB
848 Squadron demonstrates deplaning by rope, ... a patient from a hospital.
Reel One. The Secretary of State for War, The Right Honourable Anthony Head, arrives and is introduced ...
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB
Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma relinquishes command in the Mediterranean, December 1954.
Admiral Mountbatten arrives at Customs House Steps. Sir Robert Laycock (Governor of Malta) ...
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB
A visit to the Guard Dog School, Ulu Pandan, Singapore, and to Wardieburn Camp, Kuala Lumpur, where tracker dogs are trained by men of the 1st Royal Hampshires.
CU of the ...
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POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB
A boisterous crossing the line ceremony on HMS Warrior off West Africa, and Exercise Shop Window, in which South African military and civilian VIPs are taken onboard to see the ship put through its ...
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... swimming. Motor launch on river: compound showing living quarters. Water tower: pumping station; sports day activities: tug of war: canoe races: obstacle race: swimming races: diving for plates: greasy pole. Scenes in officers mess.
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MAN OF AFRICA 1953
... bolster an ‘ailing and internationally uncompetitive post-war film industry’, Group 3 struggled for effective distribution ... film indicates both the commercial expectations for post-war documentary films and the dominant cinematic representations ... -
HEART OF THE MATTER 1953
... unfinished Crown Film Unit project Morning Noon and Night, which attempted to fashion a progressive representation of the British empire war effort (Stollery 2011). The adaptation of The Heart of the Matter is similarly marked by an ... -
THEY PLANTED A STONE 1953
... this serves as a promotion (and defence) of the Empire to American audiences. It endorses a liberal imperialism prevalent in post-war colonial documentaries, and this is again apparent in the film’s final sequence, which shows local children running ... -
... Station at Jekko Falls, and afterwards worked for ATMN (Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria). Mr. Morrison left Nigeria in 1939 after the outbreak of the Second World War. Films donated by Mrs. Lang Brown, who features in several reels as a small child.
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... Station at Jekko Falls, and afterwards worked for ATMN (Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria). Mr. Morrison left Nigeria in 1939 after the outbreak of the Second World War. Films donated by Mrs. Lang Brown, who features in several reels as a small child.
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