Further scenes for 'So This Is India' showing the move of RAF 30 Squadron and their Republic Thunderbolt fighters to a forward airfield.
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Short section of footage of a railway locomotive for 'So This Is India'.
A train steams towards camera and passes very close; drivers or ...
Amateur film. The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh, particularly at Chirala, about 200 miles north of Madras on the east coast. Possibly shot by an H.D.Wills employee.
"Views from trains and car": countryside and villages. "Tobacco ...
Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at Anandgarh. Big wheel. Knife sharpener. Sweet stall. Washing elephants. Buffalo bull fight. Military sports at Rewa. The Maharajah ...
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the fall of the Briitsh Raj. Transmitted in 1980
The 81st West African Division is in the process of pushing the Japanese from Mowdok, India (Bangladesh) to the Kaladan River, Burma.
Through a ...
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves and murderers.
The following statement regarding the story prior to the opening credits: 'For hundreds of years ...
Scenes from Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), now occupied by 20th Indian Division.
Two British officers are saluted by a Japanese ...
Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.
Bullock carts arrive at the market of Lakhmijian ('Garden of the River Goddess') near the Assam River where Naga ...
Film showing the movement of supplies from the port of Chittagong, India (Bangladesh), to Dohazari and onwards by road to the front in the Arakan, Burma ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, is seen en route to Singapore with General Slim, commander-in-chief Allied ...
The Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits officers and men of 3rd Special Service Brigade on the Teknaf ...
Main title (2). A fakir (dressed only in loin cloth) helps his two assistants to set up a pattern of crossed swords which they hold up. There is a square in the pattern. The fakir dives through the square. He repeats the performance with ...
INTEREST. Scenes from the Far East.
Crowds of native people at a quayside passing items from hand to hand to load a steamer (54). A freighter (101). [Titles describing a buffalo herd, no picture]. Waves crashing against a rocky ...
The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill Missionary Society. Missionary films held in the collection contain footage of numerous ...
Supported by tanks, Gurkha infantry of 48th Brigade, 17th Indian Division, IV Corps, seen mopping up pockets of Japanese resistance at Yewe near Yindaw, ...
Tanks and infantry of 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, supported by aircraft, overcome unexpected Japanese resistance at the village of Pyinbongyi, ...
Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythology associated with them.
Three holy men sitting on a raised stone platform n front of a large temple. Shots of the temple buildings, showing carvings (98). Priest tolling a bell (103 ...
Travelogue across part of South India with specific interest in the temples of the region. Both the beauty and the significance of the architecture is emphasised in a commentary set above an Indian score. Seen in the film are paddy fields ...
Documentary on life in a desert town.
Tanks and men from 255th Armoured Brigade and 17th Indian Division spearhead the advance across the Irrawaddy River towards Meiktila, Burma, and en ...
As 17th Indian Division (IV Corps) approach Meiktila, Burma, they encounter more evidence of Japanese sabotage to halt the British progress when a ...
At MacArthur Camp Lord and Lady Mountbatten talk with officers. Mountbatten inspects a guard of honour. He speaks with an Indian POW. He meets a number of officers and men. He ...
The Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, visits Imphal airfield at sunset.
The Nawab (an honorary Air Commodore) is greeted by Air Vice Marshal ...
