BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Pilots of an Artillery Air Observation Post (AOP) Squadron, attached to 26th Indian Division, practice landing in confined areas on Ramree Island, Burma ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

The Australian and New Zealand contingents to the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II are inspected by C-in-C Mediterranean.

Admiral Mountbatten visits HMAS Sydney in Grand Harbour, Malta; ...

PATHÉ'S ANIMATED GAZETTEGreat Britain

Main title (1 frame). Military camp with a pyramid in the background. Australian army horse-drawn wagons move to camera (35). Australian troops mach down road beside a railway track. The road is tree lined with lots ...

CINEMAGAZINE. New Guinea natives follow noble calling. Archery proves great sport for war veterans. Fine freighter completed in Brisbane yards. Melbourne girl completes her own little theatre.

CINEMAGAZINE. Aborigines are forte of self-taught sculptor. Child welfare centre is boon in New Guinea. Plastic bowls show they run true to form. The history of duelling through the ages.

CINEMAGAZINE. Architectural modelling at Sydney University. Tasmanian re-enactment of the Federal Council of Australia. Pottery making in Western Australia. Native school teachers in New Guinea.

Great Britain

ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).

Note: Filmed by Edgar Hyman, 22 December 1899.

Refs: John Barnes, Filming the Boer War (1992), p 293. ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Australian soldiers of 1st Parachute Battalion lay on a Christmas party for children, both local and from a nearby camp of freed Dutch internees, in ...

7 DAYSAustralia

Current affairs report examines Britain's efforts to contain Indonesian guerrilla activity in Borneo and Sarawak (Malaysia), where 1st Battalion 7th Gurkhas are seen on patrol and are interviewed, and raises ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

An edition of Fox Movietone News, Australian ...

Great Britain

A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly English tutor who meet over afternoon tea. Includes actual newsreels of court life discovered in the archives of the Raj ...

INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in and around Rangoon, Burma.

No main title. "Famille de Birmans" (5). A village, a group of children walk to camera then turn off the track and enter the garden of a hut (23). LS down street with a temple in the ...

Amateur film of Kashmir. Ruins at Avantipur - views of the temple and man-sized rice storage jars.

FOX MOVIETONE NEWSUSA

Main title. "Squadron of British planes starts from Cape Town on 4,600 mile return trip over the jungles to Cairo" (17). LS airfield at Cape Town (27); PAN three biplanes taking off (53); MS as they fly over the camera on their way ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.

A ground crewman hand cranks an ...

Interest. Settlers in Palestine search for water and having done so, find prosperity.

Credits (146). Pair of legs walk along a railway track and along a dirt track through rocks and desert land; dust is blown up around him and he fords streams ...

Ghana

Expert advice given to villagers to plant and grow vegetables for better yield and produce. Very similar to IT PAYS TO SPRAY.

Palestine

(157A) October 1938: At the beginning of a new Hebrew year the first 'legal' immigrants arrive at the newly constructed port of Tel Aviv from SS Polonia.

(182A) June 1939: After the publication of the British Government's White Paper on ...

Palestine

(5A) April 1935: The ship Roma arrives at Haifa. On board are new immigrants, 'legals' who have the appropriate immigration certificates, and sportsmen arriving for the Maccabiah Sports Games.

(10B) June 1935: Jubilee celebrations for ...

Palestine

(128A) February 1938: New High Commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael arrives at Haifa to take up his new office.

(129A) March 1938: Fire in a timber warehouse at Rehovoth. Firemen. Palestinian Police head out with tracking dogs. (This fire ...

Palestine

(92D) June 1937: laying foundation stone for new Hulda Kibbutz. Crowds arrive for ceremony; Palestinian 'fellahin' at ceremony; speeches by unknown settlers who read a scroll outlining the purpose of the kibbutz which is then buried in the ...

Palestine

(22B/second series) June/July 1947: Dr Magnes (President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem) addresses members of UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine), speaking in English at the end of a luncheon; Sandstrom chairman of UNSCOP ...

Palestine

(152A) September 1938 (and 1943): Building of Ein Hamifratz settlement. Preparation of houses to be transported to new settlement; loading equipment. Site before settlement (clock - 4.00 am). Jewish Settlement Police move up to site of new ...

Palestine

(191A) October 1939: Harvest in Emek (Jezreel Valley). Alexander Zerd's son on horseback. Wheatfields - harvest by combine and by hand (guarded by armed horsemen). Bringing in the harvest. Jewish Settlement Police on guard. Harvest ...