Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.

Shot of a windsock ...

The official film record of the Prince of Wales' tour of India and Burma, 1921-22. Covering Bombay, Poona, Bharatpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Benares, Rangoon, Mandalay, Nepal, Madras, Patiala and the Khyber Pass. Also featuring a tiger hunt, ...

A journey by car and camel, through Persia and on to Quetta in Baluchistan.

Camel caravan (57-68). Man leading mules (71-75). An Englishman setting off for the `back door' of India by car (85-101). Kermanshah, the first ...

INTEREST. The growing, collection and processing of tea in Ceylon.

No main title. Tea bushes planted out by natives under European supervision (70). LS of native collecting the leaves (113). CU of a woman picking tea leaves (137). Workers, ...

A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the tank. One man holds a small section of track as another uses a torque wrench on ...

After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.

General view of the town of Tiddim in the ...

ACTUALITY. Hunting tigers in north India.

Hunters travelling on elephants to a rendezvous from which the elephants advance in a line. A leopard is shot, then a tiger [actual shooting is not seen]; both dead animals are lashed on top of an ...

Architect Herald Berger is commissioned as advisor to Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur. He becomes involved with Seeta, an Indian dancer who Chandra wishes to marry. In a jealous rage he has Berger cast into the ...

The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.

Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). Villages using empty tins for carrying water from the river, flattening the tins out and lining the roofs of ...

Everyday life and places of interest around the areas of Midnapore and Chittagong.

A steamer in the background and in the foreground and Indian stand holding a flag which says `Forest'. CU steamer which shows a European woman walking ...

Film documenting the training of the Kuantan Police force, 'after three and a half years of enforced idleness under the Japanese' by two British ...

After crossing the Irrawaddy River, Burma, troops of the 33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division consolidate the bridgehead as a base for future ...

INTEREST. An elephant under the dirction of its trainer moves three large tree trunks over muddy ground (30ft). [16mm].

Note: Contained in MRS CARLISLE'S BABY REELS (296-326ft). The above copy was originally on 9.5mm, the film has been ...

INTEREST. Indian elephants at work hauling timber.

An elephant team pushes its way through a thicket (20). Natives fell and trim a tree, supervised by a European (81). Elephant team hauls a large tree trunk, urged on by the handlers; an ...

A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He is ordained and despite being beaten by villagers he wins over his family who themselves are ...

HMS Roebuck anchors on the Thanzit River (Burma) to disembark troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade into LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry).

British ...

Film showing troops of 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment off duty in Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) and a visit by General Sir Philip Christison, Allied ...

DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces in the late 1920s and 1930s. Archive ...

Travancore Game Reserve, Bombay, and Bakers Estate, Komeron, Cochin.

22 reels of footage short by Mark Tully and his sisters in India from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. Footage includes numerous scenes of leisure (golf), family footage, and film taken in locations including Sikkim, Calcutta, and Puri. ...

I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted by elephants when they visit an ancient Buddhist temple at Kelaniya. Monks watch the procession. The Admiral ...

Two months after the end of the Battle of Kohima a memorial is unveiled by Lieutenant-General Stopford commander of XXXIII Indian Corps and British and ...

United States Army Air Force General Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, discusses plans for supply and troop movements in support of beleaguered ...

Part 1: Near Milestone 82 on the Manipur Road a signpost gives the distance to Worcester (5,100 miles, 'no way out') and Tokyo (2,800 miles, 'way out'). The top of the sign reads ' ...

Scenes of mortar training, a crashed Japanese bomber, mountainous scenery, a wounded Japanese prisoner and captured equipment, and a brigade planning ...

Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The Viceroy inspects the detachment of Gurkhas, who play pipes then march past.

Notes

Summary based on viewing and writing by A V ...

The horse race.

Horse racing in Calcutta.

Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.

Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. First, 'officers and men of the great West African Frontier Force' arrive at Liverpool on the liner ...

Not long after the liberation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, and the end of the war in Europe, a celebratory victory race meeting is held at Rangoon ...

INTEREST. Scenes of life and customs in Calcutta and Bombay.

A busy street in Calcutta filmed from the top of a moving ?tram, with horse traffic, pedestrians; another tram is visible some distance in front (39) Pan of the Eden Gardens and ...

Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning in the village; worshippers enter a Hindu temple as a gong is sounded (155). The village well; peasants, though ...

Viscount Wavell and Lady Wavell visit an RAF airfield.

RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft with Union flag flying from the cockpit taxiing. The Viceroy ...

Scenes of Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse visiting forward airfields of US and British ...

Lieutenant-General F A M Browning, Chief of Staff of South East Asia Command, visits positions held by the 82nd West African Division at Tamandu on the ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command, visits the officers and men who helped capture Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits IV Indian Corps in Burma.

An RAF ...

Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, visits RAF 117 Squadron and RAF 194 Squadron (Douglas Dakotas) at Agartala, and the Spitfires of RAF 152 Squadron ...

Indian Air Force Vultee Vengeance divebombers being serviced before taking off for operations in dusty conditions at Joari and Mamur (Mamura) ...

Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes in Benares; Nicola's wedding; Lucknow races.

Production / Donor Details: The collection ...

Reel 1: Two airwomen sunbathing in a garden. Two women in civilian clothes sitting on a gate. A woman mounts a horse and goes riding. Airwomen outside their billet. Women ...

I. 'INDIA.' An unidentified merchant ship is berthed in Calcutta Docks having arrived with a consignment of Australian wheat in support of relief operations in famine stricken Bengal. Grain is unloaded by hoist from the merchantman's hold and stored ...

I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army M3 Stuart light tanks and soft-skinned vehicles drive along a jungle track during the fighting in defence of Imphal (Assam). British M3 Grant tanks drive along a jungle track. Aerial footage shows the harsh terrain ...

India.

A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this edition devoted entirely to matters Indian by stressing the contrasts found in the landscape between ...

Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to dig a waterhole on the road to Rangoon ...

Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward guided by an airman on the ground. Wavell ...

"Wedding of the Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghraji Saheb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh 1933". "Part I. The Bridegroom. Princes of India arriving. The Dandia Ras. A Fuleka Procession". "Ghani Khama". "'Princes of India Arriving.' Ruling Princes ...

Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by RAF Welfare in arranging the screening ...