DOCUMENTARY: Destroyer ship "H.M.S. Ashanti" makes her maiden voyage to Ashanti, the country after which she has been named.
Credits (31), waves, coastline of the Gold Coast, map of Africa showing Ashanti (62), markets (77) naval ...
Looks at the Asian Arts Festival in Hong Kong which features the practice of traditional theatrical, musical and dance acts.
Beginning in Macau, records the historical events that brought the western power s to Asia. Draws comparisons between the lifestyles of Hong Kong and Singapore
A Japanese prisoner of war (POW) is escorted to a POW cage near Imphal by a number of African soldiers.
A British soldier stands by the roadside ...
African troops (askaris), probably of the 11th East African Division, are seen training in jungle country in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
African soldiers, ...
Everyday use of asphalt for roadmaking and roofing are followed by a description of the Pitch Lake at La Brea, Trinidad, the work at the lakeside, in the refineries and in the barrel factory. The mechanised making and filling of barrels is ...
Tribeswoman with baby on her back, hut on top of steep hillside. Villagers (the Puroiks (Sulungs)? in Assam), cockerel, exotic flowers, leaf insect, green snake, cutting trees, building hut, fire, cutting logs, making ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...
A rough road in countryside. A pall of smoke rises and debris lies around a XXXIII Indian Corps ammunition dump. The remains of ammunition boxes lie around a still smoldering pile. ...
A typical day at a Government Primary School in Tanganyika.
The film opens with a shot of a notice board stating "Government Primary School". The boys of the school are roused at 6.30 a.m. by a bugle. The boys get up, wash, sweep ...
Short film shot by an Indian cameraman ...
Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, on duty in Malaya: girls operating switchboard, office workers, girls playing tennis, relaxing in sitting room and attending a lecture on Malayan geography.
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...
Concerted attacks by the RAF and British Army on Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma are seen both from the air and from the ground.
Airborne view ...
A mortar battery of 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, along with tanks and aircraft, supports an attack on Kennedy Peak, Burma, by 5th Indian ...
Troops of 17th Indian Division seen attacking the village of Pyawbwe, on the road to Rangoon, Burma, and scenes after its capture.
Footage taken ...
As troops of 2nd Division advance towards Ywathitgyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, field and medium artillery provide support, along with heavy ...
DRAMA. A group of settlers are attacked by Arabs and lions.
Three settlers are besieged by a group of hostile Arabs. The settler's wife manages to phone for help to a neighbouring settler, Jean Lestrac, who sets off on his horse across the ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck, ...
Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects ...
On a wet day in Rangoon, capital of Burma, a pro-independence rally sees Aung San address a large crowd at the Thein Byu football ground.
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