For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ROYAL VISIT TO DUTCH OUTPOST FRENCH FLEET READY FOR BATTLE EIGHTH ARMY GAIN GROUND ALONG ADRIATIC NEW GUINEA BATTLEFRONT. FIGHTING FROM FINSCHAFEN TO MADANG
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ROYAL VISIT TO DUTCH OUTPOST FRENCH FLEET READY FOR BATTLE EIGHTH ARMY GAIN GROUND ALONG ADRIATIC NEW GUINEA BATTLEFRONT. FIGHTING FROM FINSCHAFEN TO MADANG
In forward areas on the Burma front, a ...
The arrival of General von Arnim at Maison Blanche aerodrome on his way to internment.
Von Arnim arrives at the airport and is escorted to a waiting staff car. Von Arnim ...
Indian Engineers at work building a pontoon bridge. Pushing out ...
Chinese Air Force trainees undergoing ...
23 Nov. 1943.The Prime Minister with Lord Gort is shown around the dockyard by Vice Admiral Hamilton and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Mackenzie. Churchill gives the V for Victory sign and smokes a ...
Calcutta. Ceylon. Tea picking. Coconut collecting. Water well. Kandy. "The End."
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed in slow motion during a practice gunnery shoot off Scapa Flow, possibly 16 June 1943: a gunnery officer (?) scanning the sea through a pair of binoculars on the bridge of HMS Nelson, a cloud of cordite drifting by as the ...
"Universal Pictures Presents a Popular Variety View" Delhi. Leader Newspsers Ltd building. Snake charmers. Ganges. Ajanta. Jodhpur. School. Taj Mahal. "Buy war bond and stamps." Film ends on the stars and stripes.
7 May 1943. First escort vessel and merchant ship City of Florence enters harbour at Valletta. Harbour tug proceeds to ships. Naval crew of Multipol Pompom watching ships. Material unloaded into lighters ...
A North African convoy on the first leg of its voyage from England to Gibraltar.
Convoy at sea. MS fine on the port bow of a passenger ship in heavy sea. LS to a second ship ...
I. Reel one. Introduction, origin of the DUKW, and basic performance and handling characteristics. Trainees learn convoy driving, and the vital importance of proper tyre pressure on different surfaces - ...
The 4th Indian Division in Enfidaville are visited by the Corps Commander.
Indian signallers laying a line through the town as it is attacked by shell fire. Scenes ...
25 Oct. 1943. The hospital ship Leinster arrives at Malta and ties up alongside the dockyard wharf. The patients are offloaded and put into ambulances. The hospital ship Dinard steams into the Grand ...
Unedited rushes. Palestine sequence.
"HITTING THE BEACH." Launch of LST, similar to type used in amphibious landings against Axis (Sicily, Salerno?). LSTs are loaded in Mediterranean port with armour and troops; pontoons lowered for off-shore landings. Amphibious ...
Views of a Field Ambulance attached to ...
I. "Bomber Assault - Bostons hit Valenciennes": Daylight aerial shots show British bombs falling on the assembly sheds, forges, and steel foundries of Valenciennes.
II. "Mr Churchill Returns from Moscow": the first meeting between the ...
I. "The Russian Front": aerial strafing of German columns and railways in snowy conditions on the way to Kastornoe.
II. "More air attacks on Italy": A bombing raid on Rome (short, badly cut).
III. "Forest Fire in America": blazing ...
I. "Three-Power Conference in North Africa": Churchill calls at Malta, then proceeds to Cairo to meet President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, November, 1943.
II. "Prison Ship on the Rocks": A ship carrying Germans ...
I. Review of the Year 1943": "The Home Front": The U-Boat war turned in Britain's favour. Tribute to the RAF: scenes in an aircraft factory; shots of damage in Hamburg and Berlin. Third Anniversary of the Home Guard. The first prisoners ...
Part 1, filmed between 16 and 22 December 1943: Auchinleck meets ...
A cameraman accompanies General Sir ...
20 Aug. 1943. General Giraud is greeted at Luqa Airfield by Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park and Major General W H Oxley. He inspects the RAF Regiment Guard of Honour and proceeds to Verdalla Palace where ...
The Commander-in-Chief visits repatriated prisoners of war at a tea party given at the British Embassy in Cairo.
General Montgomery with Lady Lampson and South African, ...
Amateur film with titles shot by "Jack" Collier, double bass in Geraldo's Orchestra, records scenes in Cairo and Jerusalem, members of the dance band and female singers relaxing and Burman impersonating Mussolini speaking from a balcony, during ENSA ...
Part 1: The Governor (not specified on the dopesheet, but ...
DOCUMENTARY. The work of the Hadassah Medical Organisation (sponsored by the Women's Zionist Organisation of America) in Palestine, particularly during World War II. The Hadassah Organisation brings American techniques to help the Jewish ...
West Indians serving in Britain during World War II talk about their work in the armed forces and in civilian life.
Rl. 1. In a BBC sound studio, Una Marson opens a broadcast to the West Indies and introduces West Indians who talk ...
Footage with live sound taken at ...
The cruiser Aurora with the King on board sails into Grand Harbour, Valletta. Field Marshal Viscount Gort leaves the Customs House steps and boards the Admiral's barge. The King arrives alongside the ...
I. Ships of the Eastern Fleet pass in MS-MLS - HMS Devonshire, HMS Warspite, HMS Gambia (?), HMS Resolution, HMAS Nizam (G.38), the Hunt Class destroyer HMS Catterick (L.81).
II. Scenes onboard HMS ...
Unused footage from INDIAN NEWS PARADE: wounded soldiers being brought to ferry by jeep and taken to hospital ship.
Wounded soldier on stretcher. Graves and wooden crosses. Special jeeps with attachment carried wounded. Jeeps ...
"Universal Pictures Presents a Popular Variety View" Agricultural workers. Growing rice. Preparing food. Trip to market. Dental posters in English. Various stalls. Ploughing. Water from ox driven well. "Buy war bond and ...
At Armada Road airfield near Calcutta ...
Holiday trip to Darjeeling, Srinagar and Kashmir. There are many scenic shots from the trip as well as a few shots of the local people including a clay potter. On a mountain hike, there is a road sign signalling Height 7550ft 191 ...
An undocumented film showing a girder ...
I. TURKISH JOURNALISTS' MISSION IN INDIA - To foster goodwill between India and Turkey, a delegation of Turkish journalists headed by Mr M Atay recently arrived in Delhi. Before setting out on a comprehensive tour of India ...
I. ART IN INDUSTRIES - The important role which art plays in the modern industrial world was strikingly illustrated in the Third Art and Industries Exhibition recently held in Bombay. Sir Vithal Chandravarkar, in declaring ...
I. BOMBAY UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION - Hid Excellency Sir Roger Lumley, Chancellor of the University presided over the function, where more than 2,5000 candidates were admitted to the various ...
I. THE KACHIN LEVIES - Showing hill tribes of Northern Burma fighting the Japanese by their ingenious guerrilla tactics and the supply of modern weapons by the Allies.
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I. CHITRA POURNIMA FESTIVAL - The greatest festival of Madura showing the chariot procession and thousands of devotees.
I. CHITRA POURNIMA FESTIVAL - These massive tower gates lead to the ...
I. HINDU SABHA CONFERENCE - The impressive Presidential procession, Flag hoisting and pictures of the proceedings of Lyallpur Hindu Sabha Conference.
I. HINDU SABHA CONFERENCE - ...
I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN FRONT - Pictures of His Excellency The viceroy, Lord Linlithgow's flying visit to the Eastern Army operational Areas and RAF bases.
I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN ...
I. INDIAN NAVY REGATTA - Annual Regatta recently held in Karachi to commemorate the anniversary of the commissioning of HMIS 'Bahadur'.
I. INDIAN NAVY REGATTA - At Karachi an annual ...
I. UNITED NATIONS DAY - Colourful pictures of ceremonial parade in New Delhi and Karachi on the occasion of the United National Day.
I. UNITED NATIONS DAY - The band of the Indian sappers ...
I. PANDHARPUR FAIR - 'Ashadi Ekadashi' Festival in Pandharpur. Pictures of floods, the highest recorded during the past twelve years, due to the overflowing of the Chandrabhaga River at the time ...