Features the launch 'Tamate', named after the London Missionary Society missionary James Chalmers, stationed at the Society's mission station at Aird Hill at the western end of south east Papua, on the Kikori River. Depicts a trip on the 'Tamate' along ...

Depicts life in Port Moresby, Papua, including the history of the London Missionary Society mission and its pioneer missionaries, and the current life of the mission.

Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society on Mailu amongst the Dimugu people.

Glimpses of London Missionary Society stations in the South Pacific obtained by the Rev. Norman Goodall (on deputation, 1939-40?). Includes Upolu and Apia in Samoa, Rarotonga in the Cook islands, Niue, Ronorono, Beru in the Gilbert Islands, Funafuti in ...

I. Consequences of breakdown in Anglo-French relations for military situation in North Africa. Captured British film of Army exercises in Egypt, showing artillery practice, camel troops and Indian soldiers ("mercenaries from all over the world") ...

The first two reels of a record of the Italian conquest of British Somaliland.

Maps illustrate the strategic importance of the area to Britain. Film of the desert terrain show the harsh conditions in which the ...

START 00:00:00 Monochrome views of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon filmed in late 1939, showing a French light cruiser identified by Blundell as the Duguay-Trouin at anchor off Hong Kong harbour and the elderly Canadian Pacific passenger liner RMS ...

The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large open-air swimming pool and Aero-plages (sand-yachts) on the beach. Scenes from the Grandes Fte de Fleurs in Le Touquet including a group of young ...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth review a parade of RAF personnel in the main street of a small English town.

The unedited film shows the arrival of the King and Queen; they review the parade, pausing to talk to ...

Edited and titled amateur film showing episodes in the life of the Royal Horse Guards at the beginning of the war and their transportation to Palestine, February 1940.

This film is again part ...