AMATEUR. Footage of Bombay showing the sampling of water from wells, oiling the water courses, drawing water for testing from a variety of wells, interior shots of a cotton mill (?).

GB

Amateur film by unidentified cameraman, with intertitles, records various cavalry events by the Bombay Light Horse (an Indian Army reserve regiment) on the flat and over fences, including Section Jumping, the Lamba Kan Stakes, tent-pegging (Symons' ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Reel 1: Long shots of terrain at Gangaw shows smoke spreading and ...

GB

Unedited film of British, Indian and Australian forces, mainly playing various sports, Palestine Front, July 1918.

Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Indian troops with enemy equipment captured after the battle for Wadi Akarit. The local population of the Gabs Gap returning to their homes. The town of Sfax.

Troops of ...

Rhodesia

A colour travelogue intended to encourage tourists to visit the Eastern Districts of Rhodesia.

The film shows the the great ruins of Zimbabwe, follows a car journey to Umtali, before travelling through the fruit growing north and then on ...

Documentary about the Hong Kong Chinese as represented by the Lung family and their deep involvement with ancestral glory, coupled with a dynamic, forward-looking industrial scene.

USA

Travelogue of a trip by the Martin Johnsons through Borneo.

Great Britain

Amateur film. "The record of two visits to the estate of Daruel Tobacco Plantations Limited at Segama, Lahad Datu" in Sabah, Malaysia in the north of the island of Borneo. "Daruel Bay. Lahad Datu - the port through which everything must ...

Amateur film. The Daruel Tobacco Plantations Limited estate at Segama, Lahad Datu, in Sabah, the Malaysian part of Borneo.

Coolies carrying loads to a boat at the edge of a river and carrying bales from the boat into the shed at Lahad Datu. " ...

Amateur film. Coasting along Borneo from Sumatra to British North Borneo (now called Sabah).

"Damage to river bank by 1939 floods": muddy bank with exposed under-strata and small landslips. Estate buildings. "Coasting round Borneo". "Kuching, ...

France

Foot-operated potter's wheel in action. Natives making jars and dishes. The filling of the oven for the baking process.

Great Britain

A study of the Malay people living in a Borneo village. Showing fishing and village life.

Ghana

A story of transition within the Gold Coast, as the boy Kumasenu moves from a small fishing village to the modern city of Accra.

'Lured by the false stories of his cousin Agboh, the boy Kumasenu leaves his village to seek adventure in the ...

LABOUR PARTY POLITICAL BROADCASTGreat Britain

PROPAGANDA. A Party Political Broadcast for the Labour Party introducing various speakers from different parts of Africa, introduced by Woodrow Wyatt. Featuring Dr. J.G. Kiano of Kenya, Guy Clutton-Brock of ...

ACTUALITY. Scenes of children at Ahmednagar.

No title. A group of similarly dressed Indian boys sit cross-legged on the ground by brick built buildings. The boys clap and are arranged in letters of the alphabet. The first group of boys sit in an ...

Great Britain

Home movie footage of the Wicket family of Penarth Estate rubber plantation Enggor, Cameron Highlands of Malaya.

Great Britain

Home movie footage of the European market in Brastagi, Malaya.

Great Britain

INTEREST. The method of breadmaking used by the Arabs and Somali, seen at Gobuen. Grinding, Indian corn between two round stones, by Arab woman - Nahadi tribe. Water added to flour, dough made. Rolled out on grindstone, kneaded, ...

Great Britain

Story illustrating the work of an Anglican priest in British Guiana, and the shortage of priests there.

WORLD IN ACTIONGreat Britain

The film looks at the punishment received by Rhodesians and South Africans who talked to World in Action in 'Goodbye Mr. Smith' and 'The dumping grounds'. Some were deported and others jailed.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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, ...

Great Britain

INTEREST. The quarrying and processing of clay to make bricks in Africa.

No titles. Pan left of village (10). Pan left of industrial complex, with water tanks, spoil heaps, smoking chimneys and factories (51). Pan right of processing ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

At Klang, in Selangor, Malaya, the Governor of Malaya Sir Edward Gent opens a new railway bridge, built by interned Japanese troops and the Royal ...

Overview of the history and work of the London Missionary Society in four sections. Includes narrative on the origins and pioneers of the Society, and scenes of various aspects of missions work in the different regions - Africa, Madagascar, India, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Troops and armour are carried across the Irrawaddy River, Burma, at Myinze by a mixture of DUKWs and pontoon rafts.

British troops disembark from ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Film showing the construction of the floating Bailey bridge on the River Chindwin at Kalewa, Burma.

Tightening nuts on a Bailey section. Various ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Shot on 7 December 1944: A British soldier beckons forward a lorry; a signpost is marked 'TCP' (Traffic Control Post). A sign points the way to Kalewa. Lorry crosses a Bailey ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Brigadier R G Collingwood, commander of 33rd Brigade (7th Indian Division) holds a conference of officers on the eve of the crossing of the Irrawaddy ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

In Perak, a bandit group of former anti-Japanese guerrillas surrenders and disbands.

Armed guerrillas standing at the roadside; one has a Chinese ...

Capture of various animals in the Malay jungle. Suggested by the book by Frank Buck and Edward Anthony.

Rhodesia

The work of the Zambesi valley game rangers, the effects of lake Kariba and its dam on wildlife and "Operation Noah".

Great Britain

Documentary about the food supply of Britain, how it comes from overseas and the work of Royal Navy in protecting convoys.

GB

The film opens with the title "Britain at War" superimposed over a map of the British Isles, followed by the captions "THIS FORTRESS BUILT BY NATURE .....SURVIVES THE TIDE OF WAR" with views of the British coastline. Large poster fixed along railings ...

GB

The goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924.

The squadron's tour takes in the principal ports of the Empire. At each port the ships of the squadron ...

GB

Cartoon of the British military and industrial contribution to the Western Front up to the end of 1917.

The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to ...

GB

The training and work of the Royal Naval Air Service.

Over shots of a dinghy sailing race among moored warships, the commentary speaks of the importance of airpower in modern naval training. The film then provides a ...

MARCH OF TIMEUnited States of America

Film combines library material with actuality footage and specially recorded sequences. Spitfires Squadron scramble to intercept Heinkel He 111s reported by Royal Observer Corps spotters. Control centre gives orders ...

TOPICAL BUDGETGreat Britain

NEWSFILM. Crowds and procession in Hyde Park for Empire Day (61ft).

GB

The advance of 15th Indian Division up the Euphrates valley, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.

A column of Ford light trucks carrying "supplies". (Compare with the same scene in IWM 68). Men of the Gurkha Rifles moving ...

GB

Scenes filmed on 16mm Kodachrome in Hong Kong harbour after the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945.

START 00:21:09 Shots from the cameraman's vessel as it passes the port side of HMS Colossus, a 13,000-ton Royal ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

With the reoccupation of Malaya British and Indian signallers of the Royal Corps of Signals and Indian Army Signal Corps work to restore communcations by both fixed telephone ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

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 ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARUnited States of America

Indian and British ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

In Rangoon, capital of Burma, British and Japanese officers attend a conference to discuss the conduct of the Burma campaign.

Pan along an ...

GB

Amateur film shot by Mrs Audrey Bush (wife of RASC Sergeant Maurice Bush serving at HQ, Aden), records Military tattoo at Waterloo Barracks, Khormaksar, Open Day at RAF Khormaksar with Beverley transport aircraft on tarmac, camel and horse races at ...

GB

Reel 1: Scenes on board Empress of Australia on final stretch of voyage home from Bombay to Liverpool. Tug-of-war for soldiers on deck. Passing through Suez Canal to Port Said, passing military camp on port side. Official welcome on Liverpool ...