MARCH OF TIME

Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while under threat of Japanese invasion.

The film briefly outlines the various factions - in particular the ...

United States of America

"Lowell Thomas Magic Carpet of Movietone" "The Thaw Asiatic Expedition in Cinecolor" A visit to glittering Mysore. The Thaw's host, the Maharaja of Mysore, is shown around the expedition tour vehicles. Krishnaraja Sagar dam. ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Crashed Stuka plane with pilot's body burning under fuselage. Troops from the 8th Indian Brigade advance in the background with a Bren carrier. Close up of burning body.

Italian POW being escorted ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Physical training exercises at Mena Camp, Egypt. Wrestling. Troops doing handsprings and back rolls. Sergeant Instructor J Robinson giving the command. Exercises on vaulting horse and weight putting. ...

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A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the first half of the Second World War.

Commentary recalls WW1 service and inter-war status as a frontier force, over shots ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Exercise at Mombasa, Kenya.

121 Force scale the cliff face, defended by the King's African Rifles. Lieutenant-Colonel M M Alston-Roberts-West is commanding the 2nd ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...

Japan

Compilation covers the Japanese raid on Ceylon and occupation scenes on Guam and Wake Island in the Pacific.

Carrier force at sea. Mitsubishi A6M2 is pushed on deck. Japanese pilots on board an aircraft carrier ...

Japan

Compilation uses stock shot material to cover sinking of British Force Z off Malaya and actuality of airborne capture of Celebes and air attack on Allied fleet off Java.

Main title reads "Naval warfare off Malaya. ...

Japan

Compilation shows the Japanese attack on and occupation of New Guinea, the bombing of Darwin, the occupation of the Andaman Islands and the carrier action off Colombo.

"Capture of New Guinea". Japanese task force ...

Burma

I. Long shots of explosions and a fire in a paddy field, filmed from behind some trees. Another view over paddy fields panning past a set of football goal posts.

II. Atmospheric, semi-silhouette dawn shots by the lake at Meiktila, showing ...

Japan

Documentary on Japanese advance through Malaya, attack on Singapore, British surrender and Japanese victory parade.

Heavily laden medium tank Type 97, CHI-HA with palm leaf camouflage advances along road flanked ...

Burma, late January-early February 1942. Shots of parts of a crashed Japanese bomber. Four civilians carrying part of the crashed aircraft wing. Group of civilians crowded around the dead body of a Japanese airman. The body lies partially clothed on ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Ski training at Les Cedares, Lebanon. Skiing troops. Indian Mule Corps and their bagpipe band on the march and in mountain passes.

Notes

Query les Cedares (Les Cdres ?)

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

AYY 190/1. 19 January 1942. Officers of the 76th Anti-tank regiment, 1st Armoured Division discussing operations, north of Wadi Faragh. Armoured car at an observation post overlooking "Rommel's Ridge". ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Major General Pienaar at the Headquarters of the 1st South African Division at Gazala, Libya, giving an interview to war correspondents. They include Alan Moorhead of the Daily Express, Alex Clifford of ...

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 WARIndia

An ambiguous piece of undocumented ...

Layard Collection

Family domestic holiday scenes in India. Big camp in desert with camel trains. Visit to Kashmir and its lakes.Himalayan landscapes. Family holiday on the coast of Brittany

Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot ...

Layard Collection

Offical residence with organisation of servants. The Layard girls & ponies & playing. Agricultural show .Coutryside scenes with bullocks, camel as draught animals. Tented camp with boys playing (non ball ) team games. Europeans with ...

Layard Collection

Tea cultivation, warehousing.& processing. Informal parade with local troops before visiting dignitary. Large riverside religious /political meeting. Visit of Chinese /Tibetan delegation to grounds of official hill residence. Civil ...

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

I. Official Spanish visit to Gibraltar. Spanish officer (General Don Fernando Barron y Ortz, Governor of Algeciras ?) is received by Lieutenant-General Mason-MacFarlane, and they are entertained by a regimental ...

Magwe, Burma, 24 March 1942. Various long shots of formations of Japanese aircraft in the sky. Unsteady long shots of various aircraft in flight (Allied and Japanese) shot through trees.

Burma, near Leppadan (Letpadan) on the Prome Road, 24 March ...

American Volunteer Group (AVG), Magwe, Burma, 23 March 1942. Prescott, a member of AVG ground crew refuelling a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft. Shot of the nose of a Tomahawk airplane focusing on the painted sharks teeth design. Brief shot of ...

Unedited rushes.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Ships entering the Grand Harbour are the Rochester Castle, Melbourne Star and Port Chalmers. Cheering men from the Royal Malta Artillery watch. The damaged bows of the Brisbane Star. The destroyer G77 ( ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

RAF protection for two convoys. Spitfires and Beaufighters take off. Unloading from ships SS Troilus and SS Orari. A smoke screen covers Grand Harbour and the dockyard during Alerts. The army and Royal ...

MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

I. Reel One. After an opening map showing the position of Malta there are establishing LSs over the convoy and its escorts - including the three carriers Furious, Victorious and Indomitable. Good MS off port ...

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Newsreel item showing supply convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, Operation Harpoon.

Opening view of Gibraltar from a ship at sea. CU of the cameraman Hardy, changing lenses on his De Vry camera. LS of HMS Malaya with the ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The GOC Major General Scobie visits the Command Fair to see a boxing match in aid of the Malta Convoy Fund. He leaves the fair accompanied by Brigadier de la Bere and Major Crossless.

Football ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Soldiers and sailors convalescing from bomb wounds at the Convalescent Depot at St Georges in Malta. Playing quoits, gardening, bathing in St George's Bay.

Two platoons of the 2nd Battalion Queen's ...

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Mute newsreel item

Maltese street scenes. Air-raid flag hoisted. Bofors crew man their gun. LS German Raider. Flak bursts. LS bombs exploding on the city. Fire tenders. LS of dive bomber and smoke pall created ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The Chief Censor Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Edwards censoring mail. Cutting a sentence out of a letter and stamping it with the censor's stamp. Two men writing letters in the courtyard of the ...

FAR EAST COMMAND: THE MILITARY SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST

USA

The situation in India in 1942.

Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in formation and dropping bombs; Indians looking up in the air for the aircraft: 'to no people has war come with more shock and ...

USA

The Indian contribution to the war effort.

Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, with statue of British monarch visible in the background. Billboard with cartoon picture of Churchill saying, 'To ...

Australia

Film of action at Milne Bay, which was an almost completely Australian operation and one that dealt a blow to Japanese strategy.

The film begins by showing ships pouring in supplies. Inland are the first ...

GB

A newsreel compilation picture ("presented to the Prime Minister") of Churchill's visit to Washington and Ottawa in December '41 - January '42.

WSC crosses the Atlantic on HMS Duke of York, accompanied by Chiefs of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Poles picking up their kits as they leave Tehran. They clamber up into the lorry. Polish cadets training, "eyes right" into camera then "eyes front". Polish NCO shouting the drill orders. The lorries ...

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START 00:00:34 Views of an Arab village in the Hebron district of Palestine consisting of dwellings built from local stone. Villagers (almost exclusively male) in traditional Arab clothing. Camels in use as beasts of burden, donkeys grazing in the ...

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I. "They must see in the dark." Airmen selected for night flying undergo a series of eye tests and corrective exercises at an RAF ophthalmic centre.

II. "Stirlings in the making." Stirling towed out of hangar. Production scenes show the ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A Physical Training course at St Andrews Barracks, Malta, during a lull in enemy activity. Boxing and basketball. Instruction in unarmed combat.

Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Men handling bombs. Loading onto Aircraft. Setting fuses. Loading 0.50-inch machine gun ammunition into wing magazines. Working on engine. Cu guns in wings, an armourer checks the chambers. leaning wing ...

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A Wellington Mk XIV, possibly of 458 Squadron, RAAF, is seen at dispersal. The crew walk to their aircraft and climb aboard. This is also seen in close up. Submarine 'kill' markings are seen close up on the nose next as is the bomb aimer and front ...

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Aircraft are prepared for operations in support of the Dieppe Raid.

Firstly shots of Bostons are shot in good air to air views. Close ups are taken of the shoulder flashes of crews from various countries, namely ...

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I. Tracking shots of numerous captured 5cm Pak 38 anti-tank guns lined up a desert location (Libya or Tunisia). Also visible are a heavier gun - possibly a 7.62cm Pak 36(r) - and a light artillery piece. Parts of guns and mortar bipods (without their ...

Refugees at Nampong. The rescue of Sir john Rowland's party and sixty three Indians from flooded island inNamphuk River.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

June 1942. Newspaper close-ups referring to the Hur "menace" in Sind, including reports of the derailment of the Lahore mail train. Desert and camel scenes. Two Hurs are arrested by police. An army ...