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8,000 RANGERS COME TO TOWN INDIA PLAN ANNOUNCED MORE V-DAY ARRIVALS FRANCE BEAT ENGLAND 2-1 TOJO FACES TRIAL WORLD FARMERS SEE BRITISH AGRICULTURE

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: WELSH NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH ADMITTED AS BARD FESTIVAL IN INDIA ATOMIC AGE

The religious festival of Jagannath in Puri.

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: JERUSALEM TAX OFFICE BLOWN UP INDIA. KHYBER WARRIORS HAIL VICEROY ARRIVAL OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN DELHI 'OVER THE STICKS' THRILLS AGAIN MAKING MONEY ROYAL TRAIN FOR ...

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F.A. CUP FINAL SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY INDIAN MISSION VISIT TAJ MAHAL EMPIRE RULERS HERE FOR TALKS INDIAN OLYMPICS BIG FOUR CONFERENCE IN PARIS KING AND SCOUTS

The friends of a murdered man go out into the hotels and bazaars of Calcutta to find the murderer.

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OPENING THE MONTGOMERY BRIDGE H.M.S. FLYCATCHER PRINCESS ELIZABETH WITH W.L.A. U.N.O. FACES UP TO THE FOOD CRISIS BURMA RICE REACHES INDIA OPERATION 'MUSKOX'

Amateur film of the spring festival at Udaipur. Views of the Residency and its garden. Poeple dressed in their best assemble on the banks of the lake. Dancing girls wait to board a launch. Rajput nobles assemble on the landing stage to ...

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 ...

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ENGLAND ROUT DUTCH SOCCER XI MR. ATTLEE OPENS FIRST POST-WAR LONDON FLATS MONTY IN PALESTINE INDIAN CRISIS - LONDON CONFERENCE GERMANY PREPARES FOR WINTER MEALS FOR SCHOOL ...

In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess Beatrix.

Footage of the parade ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan island off Borneo.

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Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

Mountbatten gets out of a ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, arrives in Rangoon, Burma, for a tour of inspection.

View from a high vantage ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...

Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above the paddlewheel of a steamer with thick black smoke billowing from a funnel. ...

In Hong Kong, British and Indian troops of the so-called 'Brindjap' force, bound for the occupation of Japan, mount a march past.

High shot ...

Film opens with captions detailing the history of, and current work of, the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU). "1914-1918 Ambulance trains and motor ambulance convoys in France and Belgium. Casualty hospitals in Dunkirk and Britain. Relief work in Belgium ...

Messages home from British Forces stationed in India

Messages home from British Forces stationed in India

Srinagar, Spring 1946

Srinagar, 1946

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 ...

I. "FIGHTING FOURTH WELCOMED HOME". At Karachi, Fourth Division return home after over six years of active service in the Mediterranean theatre. II. "FIELD PUBLICITY ORGANIZATION'S GREAT PROGRESS". At Bombay, mobile cinema ...

I. "THE CABINET MISSION ARRIVES IN INDIA". The Cabinet Mission arrive to try and break the political deadlock in India. The group is made up of Lord Patrick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. A.V. Alexander. II. " ...

I. "DEWAS SENIOR CELEBRATES VICTORY ON RULER'S VICTORY" Maharajah of Dewas presides at his own Durbar accompanied by the nobles and dignitaries of the state, and by his heir apparent, the Yuvaraja, who receives Atar Pan from ...

Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.

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 ...

Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.

Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. Gandhi and entourage walking along in wooded surroundings. They cross a bridge and enter a village where they are ...

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include HYDERABAD TODAY NEWS IN BRIEF FRIENDSHIP CARGO LEAVES AMERICA BELGIAN CROSS COUNTRY RACE HAIFA HOLLAND TOYS AND JOYS FOR THE KIDDIES CEYLON PARLIAMENT LONDON'S NEW TUBE ...

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS... MALTA PARIS MALAYA'S GIFT TO ROYAL COUPLE

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE TO CLOSE FEN GAP FAREWELL TO THE NEW VICEORY (LORD AND LADY MOUNTBATTEN LEAVE FOR INDIA) (DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ARRIVES BACK IN LONDON) TRIBESMEN ...

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA DRAWS TEST WITH ENGLAND INDIA ACCEPTS THE PLAN KING ABDULLAH IN JERUSALEM TUDOR MINSTREL FAILS

Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.

The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.

On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...

Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram Militia on the North-West Frontier records social and military activity, and the landscape, between August 1946 and ...

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

A fishing trip by canoe on the River Barak (?): Indian porters on a bridge, scenes from the canoe (38). A European in shorts and topi stand by a fish held up by an ...

Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary Force, attached to 11th Infantry Brigade, records the eastward movement of Hindu refugees across the ...

Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.

Bullock carts arrive at the market of Lakhmijian ('Garden of the River Goddess') near the Assam River where Naga ...

The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.

Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...

Episodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a book by Rumer Godden.

Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot Mundy.

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.