I. 'AVIATION NEWS.' An item highlighting new developments in the aviation industry. In the United States, A man leaves a detached house carrying golf clubs and climbs into a single-seat Piasecki P-V2 helicopter, the newest product of PV Engineering ...

I. 'AUSTRALIA.' An item highlighting the work of Australian factories in their support of the war effort. A male factory worker uses a circular grinding wheel to manufacture optical lenses at an optical factory making rangefinders for anti-aircraft ...

I. 'INDIA.' On his first official tour, Viceroy Wavell visits a flying training school of the Chinese Air Force situated in the Punjab. Wavell inspects a guard of honour drawn from Chinese officer cadets, primary training aircraft stand chocked in ...

I. 'BURMA.' A Japanese prisoner is escorted by club wielding British troops into a jungle encampment during a lull in the fighting on the Arakan front. Wounded Japanese on stretchers are off-loaded from the back of a British soft-skinned vehicle. The ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' British civilian workers use square-mesh metal track in the construction of a new airfield. Construction workers unroll the square-mesh and peg it into the turf to consolidate aircraft taxiways and runways. The commentary ...

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. 'INDIA.' Lord Archibald Wavell, Viceroy of India, chats to local dignitaries during his first official tour of Bombay Province. Assamese forestry workers unload logs from the back of a soft-skinned vehicle. A British official (Governor of Assam ?) ...

I. 'BURMA.' Indian Army personnel working on air supply duties load air-dropping packs with food rations. In a storage area, stacked packages await loading onto transport aircraft, as South East Asia Command (SEAC) pilots gather in the shade of a ...

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 ...

50 Years of Cinematography.

I. 'FIFTY YEARS OF CINEMATOGRAPHY.' A retrospective edition that covers cinematographic and historical events of the past fifty years. The commentary outlines the early history of film. ...

I. WPN Special- 'INVASION.' The commentary outlines the events of Tuesday June 6th 1944, the Allied invasion of Western Europe (Normandy landings). Film footage taken from the interior of a Royal Air Force (RAF) Avro Lancaster bomber shows its ...

I. 'ON THREE FRONTS- FRANCE.' Allied naval shipping is shown at sea. King George VI wearing a life jacket, stands on the bridge of an unidentified Royal Navy ship (HMS Arethusa ?) on his way to visit the Allied beachheads in Normandy. On arrival at ...