In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since the end of the war.
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In Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), British, Indian and French troops mark the first Armistice Day since the end of the war.
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ACTUALITY. The Governor of Bengal, Lord Lytton, inspects the Governor's Bodyguard in Calcutta.
Main title. The Governor and his party get out of a car at the inspection ground, a wide expanse of grass and trees (30). Lord Lytton mounts a horse by ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP practice and maps showing India's far-flung strategic frontiers (Egypt to Singapore) suggests the sort of ...
French troops under General Leclerc arrive in Saigon to take over military responsibility for Indo-China from 20th Indian Division.
French troops ...
"ARRIVAL OF MAH H.R.H. JIND (sic). Inspection of the guard of honour" (5). A train arrives and officers in white topees go forward to meet the Maharaja of Jind, Sir Ranbir Bahadur. He alights from the train and comes forward towards the ...
British, American, Indian and Chinese personnel released from Japanese captivity in Rangoon arrive by hospital ship in Calcutta.
A stretcher ...
A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of 100 Brigade, 20th Indian Divison at Myinmu, ...
1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action near Myinmu, Burma.
An artillery piece is loaded and fired on Japanese positions as support for ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of African soldiers.
A British soldier stands by the roadside ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. The remains of ammunition boxes lie around a still smoldering pile. ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and scenes after its capture.
Footage taken ...
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly English tutor who meet over afternoon tea. Includes actual newsreels of court life discovered in the archives of the Raj ...
Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
A ground crewman hand cranks an ...
Amateur film of the Regal Cinema staff in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, recreating in the garden behind the cinema their contribution to the nationwide Salute the Soldier Week, in 1944. The usherettes, dressed in the ...
Oceanliner voyage with large number of small children showing how they were kept amused on board. Scenes of unidentified large oceanside town on Indian Ocean (East Africa or India).
Wide shot showing a very large structure built of Bailey bridging sections. Men of the Madras Sappers and Miners heaving the structure into position. A British officer directing ...
INTEREST Travelogue.
A Baluchistani on a hill top surveying the country (51-56); shots of the country (75-87); the Bolan Pass (95-130); the entrance to the Pass guarded by a man with a donkey (136-160); a band of natives ...
Short documentary about Bassein, a fishing village 25 miles north of Bombay on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
The film shows the family of a fisherman, one who owns his own boat. After he has set out for the day ...
The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its workers at its specially-built industrial town of Batanagar.
The film’s opening ...
The RAF lead a parade in Calcutta (Kolkata) India, mounted to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Britain
Shot of parade forming up with US ...
Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).
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Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...
His Excellency the Governor-General of Bengal, Mr Richard Gardiner Casey and Lieutenant-General W J ("Bill") Slim visit Mandalay, Burma, to observe ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for an English soldier and the love offered her by a young Sikh, as well as another Anglo-Indian.
Bhowani Junction  ...Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, Borneo, Canada and America.
INSTRUCTIONAL. Opening shot of a map of India. An arrow indicates the Deccan States and then the Rajputana States and Thar desert where the town of Bikaner is situated. Bullock carts and camels make their way across the ...
ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.
Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white storks swimming and fishing on a pond (66). A succession of birds of various species feeding on a patch of grass. ...
In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess Beatrix.
Footage of the parade ...
ACTUALITY. Coming-of-age celebrations for a Maharajah in India.
A procession of elephants with howdahs passes the camera, crowds run beside it (32f).
Note: The above is from THROUGH THREE REIGNS 1922 (Rl. 1. 1600-1632ft).
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Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn the villagers against the nuns. Finally Sister Ruth becomes mad and attacks the mother superior only to bring about her own ...
A doctor of the Indian Army Medical Corps administers a blood transfusion in the field to a wounded soldier of the Lushai Brigade at Zampi, in the Chin ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by engineers of the 94th Faridkot Field Company ( ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by engineers of the 94th Faridkot Field Company ( ...
17th Indian Division IV Corps on the road between Nyaungu and Meiktila, Burma.
Sherman tanks of Probyn's Horse (5th King Edward VII's Own Lancers, ...
Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war ...
On Ramree Island off the Arakan coast of Burma, local civilians welcome British troops, who go sightseeing with a local headman before a Union flag is ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, presents British awards to personnel of the United States Army Air Force at the ...
EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA SPREADS DESOLATION. Worst shock for 37 years takes heavy toll of life and property, leaving hosts homeless in Bihar. (217) SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER CORPS HOLDS PARADE. International Force turns out in farewell ceremony for ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AND GANDHI ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ENTHRONED COLONEL OF THE GRENADIERS COMMANDO: THE ...
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CANADA'S PREMIER ADDRESSES BRITISH PARLIAMENT JAPS TRAPPED AT IMPHAL BATTLE IN BURMA 4TH HOME GUARD ANNIVERSARY ROUND-THE-CLOCK ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE