DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.

A record of Trinidad at the time of its independence.

I. Visit to Hong Kong by the Secretary of State for War, the Right Honourable J J Lawson, October 1945. MCU as General Festing introduces Lawson to his staff. CUs of the VIPs. Admiral Harcourt gets into a staff ...

Amateur film shot by Guy Wickenden shows the public life and celebrations of the British in pre-1940 Cairo, voyage home to UK in 1937, arrival of the 2nd New Zealand Division in 1941 and Wickenden's young family evacuated ...

Production footage/unedited material for a travelogue about Kenya and Mombasa.

No titles. An Asian ivory carver at work; an African brings in a large elephant tusk; the carver and another Asian discuss the carving of a lion; the ...

An athletics meeting for servicemen and women from Britain, the Imperial forces and the US Army at Stamford Bridge football ground, Fulham, London, 7th September 1918.

The film starts with a posed group of the RAF ...

Portrait shots of British generals of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and of General Sir Edmund Allenby, 1918.

I. Lieutenant-General Sir William R Marshall, C-in-C of the MEF, filmed ...

DOCUMENTARY. Dr Cheddi Jagan, Prime Minister of British Guiana, talks about the social and racial problems of the colony and its hopes for full independ- ence.

A film addressing the geographical conditions, agriculture, and industries within British Guiana.

A title explains that 'the low marshy coast of British Guiana is alluvium' as cattle stand in the marshy land. The film then shows ...

HOME MOVIES. Scenes of the sugar cane industry in British Guiana (Guyana).

Sugar cane loaded from boat onto a river bank. Man cutting down cane with a machete. Man carrying cane on head and throwing it into a large rectangular ...

Scenes in British Guiana. Local village life; sugar cane plantation work; cattle ranching; forest bird life; Amazonian Indian village; river rafting.

Kytor Falls. Women washing clothes in the river. Girl in hat. Street with river and ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and other ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and other ...

Film shot with live sound of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awarding medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti- ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, awards medals to members of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and other ...

Newsreel item on aircraft of 14 Squadron flying over Mount Kenya, probably 1931.

The squadron pilots start up their Fairey IIIF aircraft and take off. Three of them, and the camera plane (see note below), overfly the ...

A general outline of officer training at RAF Cranwell which culminates in an appeal for recruits.

150 pupils, including citizens from the Empire (a turbaned Indian is visible in a parade), undergo a two-year training ...

Includes: Jewish settlements in Palestine.

I. "Conference on Freedom." At the second Inter-Allied meeting held at St James Palace, chairman Eden introduces Maisky representing the new ally, the USSR. The Russian ambassador speaks.

II. "Liverpool holds tank week parade." Covenanters and ...

I. "Britain and Soviet meet in Iran." Indian troops having entered Iran north of Baghdad pass through Kermanshah before meeting Soviet troops near Kazvin. Russian officer fires Very light now that Allied front stretches from Arctic to Libya. All is ...

"Malta blitz greets new Governor."

RAF Film Unit coverage of scenes during an air raid on Malta shows the attack, and then life carrying on after the sounding of the 'all clear'. Lord Gort arrives, bringing with him ...

A ground floor room, preferably facing the garden rather than the street, is selected as a "refuge room," then simple precautions taken: removal of glass objects, taping windows and acquisition of new government steel-tube shelter, which acts as a ...

I. "Premier home from travels." a. Capture of Tripoli (aerial view) has finally eliminated the Italian colonial Empire. Soldiers of the 8th Army are seen walking towards the town before a Union flag is hoisted. Outside the city the Vice-Governor of ...

I. "Americans blitz Renault Works." Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft take off from an airfield in Britain to bomb the Renault automobile and armaments factory at Billancourt, Paris. Target and River Seine are clearly visible from a great height. ...