How the coconut palms from Travancore are processed and used. Shows the picking of the fruit, de-husking, drying and extraction of oil for use in soap, vinegar, cooking and light. Further products involve the breaking down of the fibre by native women ...
Somewhere in the Arakan coastal region ...
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I. ‘Allied Armies in Burma Battle Japs on Wide Front’ Map of Asia, with arrow marking Burma. Shots of heavy rainfall and sodden conditions in Burma. Locals including children, under ...
Opening titles.
I. ‘Headlines from the Far East!’ American Army Air Force Nurses get off a plane in China and are greeted by Chinese nurses who, the commentary sheet notes, ‘trained in America& ...
I. ‘Allied Forces in Action on India-Burma Front’ India: Indian peasant labourers build new airfields, laying tarmac and cement surfaces. Shot of American bomber (B-25) coming in to land. New Guinea: ...
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I. ‘General MacArthur Leads Attack on Admiralty Islands’ Map of the world; arrow with legend ‘MACARTHUR’ points at the Pacific theatre, Australia and New Guinea circled ...
I. ‘Americans Win New Airbases in South Pacific’ Bombers (B-25s?) seen flying in formation toward Saidor. Bombing raid over small forested island, filmed from the air; bombs seen dropping and detonating on ...
Men seen leaving US transport aircraft in Burma.
A United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Dakota (C-47 Skytrain) transport with its engines shutting ...
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 ...
Brigadier General William Old, head of Troop Carrier Command, decorates five RAF Wing Commanders with the American Distinguished Flying Cross, for ...
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 ...
An Anti-Tank Regiment enjoy the pleasure of an improvised oven and a well-organised post office at their camp two miles south of Tiddim, Burma.
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START 00:00:00 Close-up of the cameraman's cue card 'Eyemo B - ...
START 10:18:45 Close-ups of an aerial photograph or relief map of the Zambezi River and the Victoria Falls on the border between Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). An AEC Regal bus with Victoria Falls and Livingstone ...
Newsreel showing the fighting on Bougainville, November 1943-March 1944.
CU of MacArthur and Nimitz. The location of Bougainville. LS of shore bombardment by destroyer's Ground support - MS of ...
Shots of British troops at a village in northern Burma, probably in late December 1944.
Wooden house somewhere in northern Burma; British soldiers ...
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 Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia, and American Lieutenant-General Daniel Sultan visit the HQ ...
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) ...
I. 'TROOPS VISIT KING FAROUK'S MODEL FARM.' A contingent of British and Commonwealth troops, including members of various women's services, visit King Farouk's model farm situated between Cairo and Ismailia. The visiting party is shown at the ...
I. 'FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY.' This item duplicates Item II of WPN 139.
II. 'NEW GUINEA- AN EPIC OF JUNGLE WARFARE.' This item duplicates Item III of WPN 139.
III. 'CHIANG KAI-SHEK HOST TO ALLIED LEADERS IN ASIA.' Lord Louis Mountbatten chats ...
