I. 'ALLIES WEEK OPENS IN CAIRO.' R.G. Casey, Minister of State Resident in the Middle East, addresses a large crowd of gathered dignitaries in the gardens of the Anglo-Egyptian Union in Cairo. The event is described as being held in honour of five ...

Pacific Front - Ninth Division Captures Australia.

I. 'PACIFIC FRONT-NINTH DIVISION CAPTURES AUSTRALIA.' An item covering the return of the Australian Ninth Division to their homeland and the ensuing celebrations ...

I. 'NORTH AFRICA.' The commentary introduces an item on the visit of King George VI to Tunis (June 12 1943) notable as being the first flight made abroad by an English Sovereign during wartime. King George VI is driven along a Tunis Street in an open ...

I. 'FAR EAST.' A mule train supplying General Chiang Kai-shek Chinese Nationalist troops travels from India into China. The commentary explains that since the loss of Burma it has been a major problem for the Allies to reopen a supply route into ...

I. 'AROUND THE WORLD-PERSIA.' Iranian infantry goose-step in formation at a military review. An Iranian Army communications team use a cumbersome two man shoulder-carried radio transmitter during mountain exercises. A radio message is received by a ...

"Sept 3rd 1942 - 43 : Fourth Year of the War. First Year of Victory."

I. 'SEPT 3RD 1942-43: FOURTH YEAR OF WAR-FIRST YEAR OF VICTORY.' A retrospective look at significant events over a one year period with location ...

I. 'INDIA.' Indian pilgrims mingle with street traders near the castellated portals of the town of Ajmer in Rajasthan State in India during a pilgrimage in honour of Dargah Sharif. Pilgrims flock into a mosque and are shown at prayer. Pilgrims ...

I. 'SOUTH AFRICA.' British troops take part in physical training exercises forming part of a special fitness programme at a tented encampment in South Africa. A large log is tossed between two teams of five men as a means of developing upper body ...

I. 'KING OF YUGOSLAVIA ARRIVES IN M.E.' King Peter of Yugoslavia reviews units of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force and Royal Yugoslav Navy at port facilities in Alexandria, Egypt. King Peter, dressed in Royal Yugoslav Air Force uniform, reviews a guard ...

I. 'TANKS- AUSTRALIAN MADE.' Interior footage shows various stages in the production of Australian Sentinel AC I and III cruiser tanks. Male factory workers manhandle a castor mounted vat of molten steel to a casting furnace. Molten steel is poured ...

I. 'STRONG ARM OF THE RAF.' A large assembled crowd of Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel pose for photographs in front of a parked and chocked Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft. A fuel bowser and tractor with bomb train are also evident in the foreground. ...

I. 'THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PERSIA.' A soldier of the Imperial Iranian Army stands guard in the grounds of a newly constructed modernist style Royal palace (Art Deco ?) that displays little of the ornamentation normally associated with traditional ...

I. 'EGYPT.' The national flags of the United States of America and Yugoslavia fly at Heliopolis Airport (Cairo) during an aircraft presentation ceremony attended by King Peter of Yugoslavia and Major-General Royce, Commander United States Army Air ...

I. 'BLITZING GERMAN AIRFIELDS.' An officer of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) watches a Martin B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft from the 456th Bomb Squadron of the 323rd Bomb Group take off as he walks his Great Dane dog in the vicinity of the ...

I. 'ENGLAND-ATS BIRTHDAY PARADE.' A large contingent of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) personnel stand to attention on a barrack square (Wellington Barracks ?) prior to marching to Buckingham Palace for a parade in celebration of the fifth ...

I. 'WOMEN WHO SERVE THE GUNS.' Australian civilian architects (male) orientate themselves from blue prints at a construction site where a modern munitions factory is being built. A train pulled by steam locomotive (3112) arrives at an unidentified ...

I. 'MID EAST-FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS VISITS CAIRO.' Field Marshal Jan C Smuts (South African Premier) sits on a bench in the garden of the British Embassy in Cairo, in the company of Lord and Lady Killearn (Sir Miles and Mrs Lampson) and their children ...

I. 'BLITZING GERMAN AIRFIELDS.' This item duplicates Item I of WPN 133.

II. 'ITALY DAY BY DAY.' This item duplicates Item II of WPN 133.

III. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' This item duplicates Item III of WPN 133.

IV. 'RUSSIA.' This item ...

I. 'ATLANTIC CONVOY.' This item duplicates Item IV of WPN 134.

II. 'NEW GUINEA- JUNGLE PARATROOPS.' This item duplicates Item V of WPN 134.

III. 'NEW ROAD NOW LINKS U.S.' Map of Canada and Alaska shows the newly constructed road (AlCan ...

I. 'SMASHING GERMAN WAR TARGETS.' This item duplicates Item IV of WPN 135.

II. 'NEWS OF THE WAR IN ITALY.' United States (US) Fifth Army engineers operate distillation equipment using sea water taken from the Bay of Naples. A British Army ...

I. 'FLYING FORTS BATTLE NAZIS OVER GERMANY.' United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress bomber aircraft run up their engines on a taxi way as they await their turn to take off. Aerial footage shows USAAF B-17F stacked in ...

I. 'RUSSIA.' Russian infantry officers use binoculars to scan the horizon from the cover of a wooden dugout. Russian anti-tank crews fire a 184(r) Protivotankovaya Pushka obr 1930g 45mm anti-tank gun at unseen targets as Russian T34/76B tanks ...

I. 'CHURCHILL IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' Cheering crowds greet British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his arrival in Cyprus following his successful visit to Adana in Turkey for discussions with President Ismet Inn. Churchill chats to representatives ...

I. 'BOMBING OFFENSIVE.' Royal Air Force (RAF) Douglas Boston bomber aircraft (2 Group) fly at very low level over the sea to avoid detection by German early warning radar during the raid on the Philips radio factory at Eindhoven in Holland (December ...

I. 'INDIA.' Relief work in Midnapore district of Bengal after the cyclone. Hundreds of Bengali civilians queue at field kitchens to receive a grain hand-out and cooked food. Indian doctors use hypodermic syringes to vaccinate local civilians against ...

Footage includes New Delhi, street demonstration and crowd outside mosque; site of 1911 Delhi Durbar; horse riding; very brief sequence of Lord & Lady Mountbatten seated in state. Five sequences.

Production / Donor Details: The ...

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 ...

CINEMAGAZINE: A WOMAN SEA CAPTAIN AND NAVIGATION INSTRUCTOR IN THE NAVY; A MAN WHO CONTROLS ALL VITAL STATISTICS IN LAKELAND, GEORGIA; A GIBRALTAR ISLAND, OHIO CITIZEN WHO EXTRACTS SALT FROM WATER; AND A WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA COWBOY WHO ...

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: BERLIN RAIDERS CANADIANS LIVING IN ITALY ENGINEERS BATTLE VOLTURNO VICEROY ARRIVES IN CALCUTTA

PROPAGANDA. Tribute to the people of Malta in World War II by Cadbury's who supply the island's children with vitamin enriched chocolate.

Censor's certificate. (8) Titles. (17) LS town. (20) MS crocodile of children with their teacher running for ...

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: NEW AIRPORT SPEEDS PLANES TO BRITAIN The QUEEN HOLDS AN INVESTITURE ROYAL TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN The KING IN AFRICA AND MALTA

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: NEW GUINEA - AIR POWER, THE KEY TO THE SHORES OF SICILY. "THE INVASION OF SICILY HAS BEGUN" - ANXIOUSLY WE HEARD THE NEWS THAT DAY; THEN WITH PROUD RELIEF WE LEARNED OF THE OPERATION'S ...

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 a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: JAPS FACE A BIG DEFEAT IN PAPUA ALLIES IN TUNIS PREPARE ATTACK EPIC OF STALINGRAD

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MISCELLANY FROM BEHIND THE FRONTS. BELGIAN CONGO SENDS TROOP SKIING BECOMES ITEM OF ARMY TRAINING SUPPLIES STILL POUR INTO RUSSIA ARCHBISHOP SPELLMAN VISITS MALTA, G.C. JAP CONVOY ...

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: HARVARD HOMOURS CHURCHILL BRITISH A.A. VETERANS IN U.S.A. FROM CHINA TO NEW GUINEA REMEMBRANCE OF THE FEW

Tribute to the part played in the war by the people of Malta; shows actual raids and how the Maltese carried on their work.

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 ...

For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: NEWS FROM EAST AFRICA MALTA CARRIES ON LLOYD GEORGE CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY NAVAL DEPOT SHIP CHINA'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Unedited rushes.

Unedited rushes.

Unedited rushes. Palestine sequence.

I. Reel One. HA onto men larking about in swimming pool rigged on the deck of HMS Nelson. HA onto 8x 2-pounder aft on port side - crew clear away, don anti-flash and ready and train the gun. HA onto focsle as ...

Rushes for the film 'The Volunteer'. A miscellaneous jumble comprised of record footage of the daily air operations interspersed with acted sequences.

LS of a passing Grumman Wildcat. A Wellington circles the carrier ...

I. Scenes onboard a L Class destroyer escorting the convoy. Shots showing armament - 4.7-inch guns and 3-inch and 4x2-pounder AA - all trained to starboard. Accompanying destroyers include a Tribal, another L ...

I. Reel One. At sea with covering and bombarding force. LS of dramatic cloudy sky. Flag signal is hoisted. HMS Penelope passes right to left across cameraship Aurora's wake. The two cruisers begin a ...

HMS Aurora with a destroyer escort carries King George VI from Tripoli to Malta in Operation Anchor.

Aurora approaches the entry to Grand Harbour, preceded by HMS Eskimo. 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 ...