Amateur film shot by Ordnance Officer Lieutenant G Moss, assisted by Ordnance Artificer Don Hayward, on board HMS Belfast during the ship's Far Eastern commission under command of Captain Morgan-Giles, gives disjointed ...

HMS Centaur embarks men of 45 Royal Marine Commando, Ferret armoured cars of 16/5 Lancers, and RAF Belvedere helicopters for the voyage from Aden to Tanganyika.

LS pan over Aden ...

A pictorial record of activity on HMS Hermes during her second commission, starting in the Mediterranean and ending in Hong Kong.

Aerial sequence showing HMS Hermes entering Grand Harbour ...

Observers on a coastal range report the fall of shot to HMS Lion as she carries out a bombardment.

A party arrive by jeep at the coastal site to observe the bombardment and report the fall of ...

HMS Protector takes off a Royal Society expedition from the island of Tristan da Cunha, evacuated the previous year after a volcanic eruption.

Captain Graham of the Protector meets members of ...

I. Gemini inflatables carry ashore a party of marines and sailors from HMS Rothesay. The sailors, armed with No 4 rifles, pick their way over the inhospitable terrain. They comb the beach area. A prisoner is brought in, hands ...

Amateur film shot by Midshipman Ian Shuttleworth while serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East between August 1963 and September 1964 during Confronation in Borneo records leave in Hong Kong, carrier and helicopter activity, Crossing the Line ...

I. Reel Two. LS along the quayside at Labuan as soldiers disembark from HMS Tiger. HA from the ship to the quayside - a group of men disperse after a short briefing, soldiers await transport, their arms laid ...

C-in-C Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley, leaves Malta in HMS Tiger to render a salute to the US task group carrying President Eisenhower.

Aerial sequence showing HMS Tiger at sea ...

En route to Hong Kong HMS Victorious exercises her crew in riot squad drill. The exercise is not taken very seriously. In Reels Two and Three Victorious has reversed course and is steaming ...

Measures being taken against communism in Hong Kong. With Sir David Trench, P.S. Woo, David Lai, Elsie Elliott, and police commissioner T.C. Eates

The landscape, life and culture of Hong Kong together with its industrial potent ial and development

Mainland Chinese refugees in Hong Kong.

Amateur film shot by Major Allan Cameron of 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers when serving at Headquarters 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade records scenes of military and local life, including contrast between Chinese shanty towns and wealth, ...

The geography of Hong Kong: its importance as a great free sea port; its growth as a manufacturing city and the efforts being made to house and provide work for refugees from China

Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Flight Officer Anne Peterkin, when serving as a sister in the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in the RAF Hospital at Khormaksar Beach from 1964 to 1966, records her ...

Hovercraft SRN5 is tested as a patrol and transport craft.

CUs of Captain Peter Beacon at the controls as the hovercraft moves off. CUs of the radar and radio operators, and ...

A film looking at hunger and its causes, particularly politics and power struggles. It opens with scenes of hungry children, and the admonishment that the hungry know they need not be hungry, and looking at the disparity between the rich and the poor ...

Mute film of the 13/18 Hussars on duty in the Far East.

Checkpoint: local people searched. Morris 1000 passes armoured vehicle. (Blank 25 ft to 27 ft) Woman puts out washing in garden of house (troops' accommodation ...

Ship journey. Diving, underwater footage of fish: puffer fish, rays. Location unclear. Some footage of South Africa: Table mountain. Duke & Duchess of Kent visit Owen Falls. Journey in middle east: Suez canal. Air journey: views of ...