I. "MUSLIMS WIN BOMBAY PENTANGULAR TOURNAMENT FINAL" Cricket veteran Hardstaff comments "I don't remember a more thrilling match in my life" in response to the Hindu-Muslim cricket encounter in Bombay. Featured players ...
Bodh Chandra Singh, Maharaja of Manipur ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: The QUEEN HONOURS A.T.S. DIAMOND JUBILEE OF BOYS' BRIGADE ITALY LORD WAVELL LEAVES FOR INDIA GREAT U.S. AIR ASSAULT
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA COAST DEFENCE PRESENTING SEAFIRES LIGHTER MOMENTS IN THE DESERT MANNED BY WOMEN KENYA POLICE AT FOOTBALL INDIANS IN TUNIS R.A.F. TREBLES WEIGHT OF AVERAGE ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: FIFTH ARMY ACROSS THE VOLTURNO PERSONALITIES: LORD LINLITHGOW, LORD LOUIS, MR.EDEN (LORD LINLITHGOW ARRIVES BACK IN ENGLAND) (LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES IN INDIA) (MR. ...
An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.
Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...
I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN FRONT - Pictures of His Excellency The viceroy, Lord Linlithgow's flying visit to the Eastern Army operational Areas and RAF bases.
I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN ...
I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.
I. SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - India mourns the great loss of Sir Sikandar Hyat ...
The Indian contribution to the war effort.
Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, with statue of British monarch visible in the background. Billboard with cartoon picture of Churchill saying, 'To ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AND GANDHI ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ENTHRONED COLONEL OF THE GRENADIERS COMMANDO: THE ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BIGGEST CONVOY REACHES INDIA THE MASTER PLAN THE DAY SHIFT TAKE OVER
Amateur film of the construction of a road in Assam from Ledo to Assam by the Indian Tea Association.
Pan over hill terrain showing the route of a road under construction. A European in shorts standing by a lorry. Pan over hill ...
The situation in India in 1942.
Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in formation and dropping bombs; Indians looking up in the air for the aircraft: 'to no people has war come with more shock and ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES FOR HERSELF PRIME MINISTER AND GENERAL SMUTS AT DOVER TOUGH TACTICS CHINESE ARMY IN INDIA ...
For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. COMES HOME CAPTIVES FROM NAZI SEA RAIDER HOME TOWN GREETS AUSSIE V.C. OUTPUT OF ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN PARLIAMENT ACCLAIMS FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS
Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.
A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the first half of the Second World War.
Commentary recalls WW1 service and inter-war status as a frontier force, over shots ...
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...
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 ...
Gulmarg, Autumn
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its greatest danger") and determination ("Preparing for the attack which must come").
Film stresses the global nature of the war, and ...
British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.
Opening titles "Burma. A War Correspondent's Despatch. Film and Story by Maurice Ford". A ...
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 ...
