For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ROYAL VISIT TO DUTCH OUTPOST FRENCH FLEET READY FOR BATTLE EIGHTH ARMY GAIN GROUND ALONG ADRIATIC NEW GUINEA BATTLEFRONT. FIGHTING FROM FINSCHAFEN TO MADANG
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ROYAL VISIT TO DUTCH OUTPOST FRENCH FLEET READY FOR BATTLE EIGHTH ARMY GAIN GROUND ALONG ADRIATIC NEW GUINEA BATTLEFRONT. FIGHTING FROM FINSCHAFEN TO MADANG
In forward areas on the Burma front, a ...
The arrival of General von Arnim at Maison Blanche aerodrome on his way to internment.
Von Arnim arrives at the airport and is escorted to a waiting staff car. Von Arnim ...
Indian Engineers at work building a pontoon bridge. Pushing out ...
Chinese Air Force trainees undergoing ...
23 Nov. 1943.The Prime Minister with Lord Gort is shown around the dockyard by Vice Admiral Hamilton and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Mackenzie. Churchill gives the V for Victory sign and smokes a ...
Calcutta. Ceylon. Tea picking. Coconut collecting. Water well. Kandy. "The End."
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed in slow motion during a practice gunnery shoot off Scapa Flow, possibly 16 June 1943: a gunnery officer (?) scanning the sea through a pair of binoculars on the bridge of HMS Nelson, a cloud of cordite drifting by as the ...
"Universal Pictures Presents a Popular Variety View" Delhi. Leader Newspsers Ltd building. Snake charmers. Ganges. Ajanta. Jodhpur. School. Taj Mahal. "Buy war bond and stamps." Film ends on the stars and stripes.
7 May 1943. First escort vessel and merchant ship City of Florence enters harbour at Valletta. Harbour tug proceeds to ships. Naval crew of Multipol Pompom watching ships. Material unloaded into lighters ...
A North African convoy on the first leg of its voyage from England to Gibraltar.
Convoy at sea. MS fine on the port bow of a passenger ship in heavy sea. LS to a second ship ...
I. Reel one. Introduction, origin of the DUKW, and basic performance and handling characteristics. Trainees learn convoy driving, and the vital importance of proper tyre pressure on different surfaces - ...
The 4th Indian Division in Enfidaville are visited by the Corps Commander.
Indian signallers laying a line through the town as it is attacked by shell fire. Scenes ...
25 Oct. 1943. The hospital ship Leinster arrives at Malta and ties up alongside the dockyard wharf. The patients are offloaded and put into ambulances. The hospital ship Dinard steams into the Grand ...
Unedited rushes. Palestine sequence.
"HITTING THE BEACH." Launch of LST, similar to type used in amphibious landings against Axis (Sicily, Salerno?). LSTs are loaded in Mediterranean port with armour and troops; pontoons lowered for off-shore landings. Amphibious ...
Views of a Field Ambulance attached to ...
I. "Bomber Assault - Bostons hit Valenciennes": Daylight aerial shots show British bombs falling on the assembly sheds, forges, and steel foundries of Valenciennes.
II. "Mr Churchill Returns from Moscow": the first meeting between the ...
I. "The Russian Front": aerial strafing of German columns and railways in snowy conditions on the way to Kastornoe.
II. "More air attacks on Italy": A bombing raid on Rome (short, badly cut).
III. "Forest Fire in America": blazing ...
I. "Three-Power Conference in North Africa": Churchill calls at Malta, then proceeds to Cairo to meet President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, November, 1943.
II. "Prison Ship on the Rocks": A ship carrying Germans ...
I. Review of the Year 1943": "The Home Front": The U-Boat war turned in Britain's favour. Tribute to the RAF: scenes in an aircraft factory; shots of damage in Hamburg and Berlin. Third Anniversary of the Home Guard. The first prisoners ...
Part 1, filmed between 16 and 22 December 1943: Auchinleck meets ...
A cameraman accompanies General Sir ...