START 00:00:00 Black and white scenes filmed on board a twelve-oared cutter showing the crew 'pulling' hard on each of the seventeen-foot foot long oars during training. Shots showing several types of craft - three twelve-oared cutters, the Chief ...
START 00:00:00 Colour Kodak Safety Film logo. Scenes filmed in the Whampoa Docks in Kowloon showing two ratings standing on the quarterdeck of HMS Kent holding the template for the ship's crest that they are going to paint on the cliffs overlooking ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed under the tropical awning on the quarterdeck of HMS Kent interrupted by jump cuts showing Captain Ashmore with the Army General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong, officers including one identified by Blundell as Sub- ...
START 00:00:00 Agfa 8 1939 logo. Scenes showing Lieutenant-Commander 'Casanova' Coleman (HMS Kent's paymaster) on the left and Petty Officer Desmond Holbrook (as identified by Blundell) holding a pay parade for naval ratings on board HMS Kent; as he ...
START 00:00:00 Monochrome scenes in the South China Sea, summer 1939: view of two naval ratings on duty on the platform with an octuple Mk VII 2-pounder pom-pom and the quadruple .5 inch machine gun mounting on the starboard side of HMS Kent, another ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the Ceylon (?), Muscat, East Africa, India and Burma, the Seychelles and while serving on HMS Ilex (1937-1939) ...
(Reel 1) Map of Palestine with oil pipe line from Iraq to Haifa marked. "September Crisis 1938": HMS Malaya sails from Haifa, under Mount Carmel, to Alexandria, with HMS Gallant (H.59) escorting. Scenes in Alexandria: RN submarine, Fairey Sea Fox ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson of the Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley Rifles), Indian Army while serving on the North-West Frontier of India.
Wide shot hills, coach past on road foreground. Car up and past. Ls across valley, white man and native girl with trusk. People wandering through gardens showing flowers. Ls village. cu flowers, native children ...
(B/W) Erosion control in Coon Creek, Wisconsin, "Placed with Siwalik film as my USA tour in 1934-35 gave me ideas as to what was needed in Siwaliks". Trenches and rubble bunds in Kalachitta, Attock. Building stone and wire bolsters in Nurpur Kangra to ...
Travelogue on Palestine emphasising its modern industrial as well as its historical and religious aspects.
Biography of the American explorer from his reporting for the New York Herald to the discovery of Livingstone's body and Stanley's conversion.
Family in the British Colonial Service in West Africa. Their son revolts against the life and becomes involved with a trouble making scientist. He and his gang are eventually killed and the son escapes.
AMATEUR. Bazaar scenes; oil fields and oil rigs; winches; man going down oil well; ball game played with feet.
Amateur film. Tanggye; bazaar scenes; Inle Lake Buddhist festival - rowing through rushes in procession, decorated boats; last Durbar ever performed by the Governor.
Oases in the Sahara Desert.
I. Helsinki prepares for 1940 Olympics. Reportedly unaffected by world events, Finland makes final preparations for the Olympics, advertised on an English poster for 20 July to 4 August 1940. Views of the Finnish capital include the waterfront, ...
(Reel 1) A soldier in uniform stands in heavily frosted yard. View of white cliffs, from ship (Troopship Vienna?) leaving Southampton . The regiment watch other boats and a destroyer from the deck. The train stationary at a station in France. The ...
Documentary on the development of an air mail service over the British Empire.
Samoan Sidelights. Includes three sequences - Sinnet Making (a kind of twine); Samoan Kava ceremony; Roasting the Ceremonial Pig.
START 00:00:00 Title 'Pathscope Safety Film presents "Mediterranean 1938 1939"' superimposed over a still of the G Class destroyer HMS Glowworm (pennant number H92) in the Grand Harbour, Malta. On board the battleship HMS Warspite with spray breaking ...
Story of the maiden voyage of HMS Ashanti, a Tribal Class destroyer, to visit the Gold Coast to "show herself to the tribesmen of the country."
Brief introductory history of the Ashanti kingdom, now an enlightened ...
