Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as mines on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma ...
Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as mines on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma ...
A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.
Low altitude (c.100-ft) air-to-ground footage of ...
Aerial views showing DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.
Aerial views over the Chindwin; various meanders and sandbars. View of ...
An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force are seen on manoeuvres in Ceylon, the Gold Coast regiment are shown building a ferry, and the ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, swinging on branches (260), chimp chasing leopard and other animals (334), attacking people, ...
Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the visits made by the delegates during their stay.
Delegates from Africa arrive at Lancaster House. Inside the ...
INTEREST. The work of the craftsmen in the Kenyan textile industry and the West African silversmiths and jewellers.
INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.
Amateur film. `Once upon a time Africa was a land of Pagan enchantment': landscape; wildlife; village. `Civilisation': white man puts on a tie. `With manifold blessings': black man reads newspaper and looks at cinema poster of `Kay ...
Footage of Nandi tribal dancing. Recruiting for the Kings African Rifles. The Turkana tribe preparing meals and dancing. WaTesio dancers, Luo dances, Yenga dances and the Sugundi Dance followed by the Elkony dances. Agricultural practices ...
Ethnic scenes in Tanzania, including agricultural practices; tribal dancing of the Wa Matengo and Wa Nyasa.
Scenes of the Mukama of Toro and chiefs at Fort Portal. People on the shores of Lake Edward, Katwe and workers at the salt lake. Making of bark cloth by traditional methods at Masaka. The Battima tribe and their cattle near Mbarara. ...
Funeral cortege through centre of Salisbury (later Harare) of the Governor of Southern Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), Vice-Admiral Sir William Eric Campbell Tait, formerly Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic.
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Summary: Governor from 20 Feb ...
Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train as nurses, they take examinations, and after 7 years of training she goes to take charge of a four-bed maternity home ...
Documentary about the Cairo/Cape Town mail route.
START 10:30:58 A family group of Kikuyu women perform domestic tasks such as preparing meals and looking after infants. A group of male elders seated in a semi-circle drink maize beer through long straws from the same pot.
10:32:58 Six women, ...
A party of African visitors arrive by car at the Tower of London, where a beefeater greets them and shows them around. After they have seen the sights, the car returns to collect them and the visitors depart. With musical accompaniment. ...
Footage from the town of Imphal in ...
I. Toungoo, Burma, late February 1942. Shots of the bomb damage to the city, charred trees, buckled corrugated sheeting, rubble and partially demolished building.
II. Toungoo, Burma, late February 1942. Group of men walking along a street ...
AYY 181/1. 1 Jan. 1942. Royal Artillery outside Agedabia, Libya, preparing guns and gun positions. Furthest point south reached by the British army.
AYY 181/2. 3 Jan. 1942. Scots Guards in trench ...
Delhi airport, Delhi, India, 12 June 1942. View over airfield control tower to aircraft in the sky. View over roof of car with Union flag to aircraft in the sky. Shot of airfield control tower with sandbag defences, across the airfield. Douglas C-47 ...
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 ...
Artillery and air strikes are used to assist an attack by 17th Indian Division on Japanese held positions on the Pindale to Mahlaing road, Burma.
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As the fight for Burma's second city of Mandalay continues Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal, visits Mandalay Hill with Generals Slim, Rees and others ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command and Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon visit the IAF (Indian ...
Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong.
A bare-metal RAF Douglas Dakota ...
Unedited rushes. Air convoys in Takoradi and Ikeja, Lagos. Unloading Hurricane crates.
Scenes of Burmese civilians receiving medical treatment and air evacuation of British casualties from Mohnyin in northern Burma.
At a dressing ...
Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a dusty airstrip. Panning shot across airstrip. Tomahawk aircraft taking off. Another Tomahawk aircraft taxiing to take-off, ...
Air Marshal Coryton, Air Officer Commanding Third Tactical Air Force visits RAF 177 Squadron and RAF 211 Squadron equipped with Bristol Beaufighters ...
The new Allied Air Commander-in-Chief of South East Asia Command, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, arrives with his wife at Alipore airfield, near ...
139 Company AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) clearing debris in Bryanston Square and Park Crescent, London W1.
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139 Company under command of Major Hood MC, 2 Montagu Square, ...
Company of Indian members of the AMPC (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) (recruited mainly from Lascars at docks and ports) clearing up Sloane Street underground station, London, after air raid. Indian ...
Reel 1: A parked RAF Short Stirling transport aircraft with a white-painted Consolidated Liberator behind it. General view of the airfield at Mauripur. A Liberator lands. ...
Aircraft dropping supplies by parachute and evacuating wounded in support of 7th Indian Division, Fourteenth Army.
Men of Air Supply Company ...
Footage of various Allied transport aircraft taking off after being loaded with weaponry and mules for resupply operations.
Aircraft include ...
Men of 23rd Brigade shown reoccupying the village of Ukhrul in Manipur, India and being resupplied with food and other items by parachute supply ...
Scenes of RAF Liberator heavy bomber operations over Burma.
RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers of RAF 159 Squadron at dispersal with ...
6 May. Seventeen Mitchell bombers flying in formation to bomb accompanied by nine Spitfires. A formation of Marauder bombers. Another formation of bombers.
Scots Guards vehicles passing a corner in ...
Air to air training shots filmed from the pilot's perspective at RAF Hornchurch in 1943. Pilot is C.J.S. Howard of 559 Squadron.
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Summary: C.J.S. Howard joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Brief details of his military service as ...
Patients board a Handley Page Halifax aircraft for repatriation to the UK at Alipore airfield, Calcutta.
An RAF Avro Lancaster, fitted with ...
Brief film showing part of an air-sea rescue exercise with an airborne lifeboat Mk II near Singapore.
Six men onboard a motor launch trying to ...
Reel 1: Pan along a line of Indian Sikh troops cleaning their Ordnance ML 3-inch mortars. A three-man mortar team stands by their weapon, which a captain comes and inspects. ...
Gurkha paratroopers seen gearing up and boarding their aircraft before parachuting into action near Rangoon, Burma, as part of Operation Dracula ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, starting ...
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...
A coordinated attack takes place on Japanese positions along the Pindale to Mahlaing road north of Meiktila. Burma, involving artillery, North American ...
In northern Burma, American aircraft attack Japanese positions near Konkha and Major-General Festing visits the front line.
American P-47 ...