British prisoners of war travel from Italy to Cairo via Alexandria.

The hospital ship Llandovery Castle enters Alexandria Docks. Medical officers board the ship. Wounded ...

24 June. On the morning of 23 June, units holding the Sollum-Halfaya area began to evacuate and move eastwards towards Matruh. South African armoured cars watch the escarpment westwards from Halfaya for ...

13 April 1942. British prisoners of war returned from Italy recording a broadcast to their families at the 15th Scottish Hospital, Egypt. Captain Peter Haddon is in charge. The dialogue is radioed direct ...

Unused INDIAN NEWS PARADE footage showing a squadron from the Royal Indian Navy under attack from Japanese aircraft.

I. Various shots of motor launches. Main sequence shows a Vosper 72 ft 6-inch motor torpedo boat exercising off Weymouth - she passes the mast of a sunken vessel and a moored Flower Class corvette.

II. Pan across Malta convoys, including (?) ...

Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are unloaded from the lorry. The beans are stirred, tipped from a sieve into a tray and then put into ...

Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African troops march, before Sergeant M’Cabe calls the squad to attention. The film shows Semaphore ...

Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks on wall stopped at 4.45. Chinese wear protection i.e. pieces of rag over mouths. Panning shot - wreckage of large ...

Rangoon 25 January 1942. Views of a busy street with several civilians running (hurrying for shelter after an air raid alarm was sounded, according to the cameraman's Dope Sheet). View across the Hlaing river. View of the Grand Pagoda. Heavily ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Alaric Rowntree while serving as Director of Communal Feeding for the Ministry of Food (and Colonial Office) in Malta during the critical period from July to December 1942, and later shown to ministers and officials ...

Notes

Technical: no soundtrack held for this film.

Remarks: uncatalogued

Malta supply operation MG.1, March 1942. Cameraship is HMS Cleopatra.

Convoy MW.10 at sea with a screen of Hunt Class escorts and cruisers and destroyers of the covering ...

The Duke's tour of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Aden.

HRH arrives at Heliopolis Airport in Cairo, takes the salute, inspects a guard of honour of the 4/7 Rajputs and says ...

Amateur film without titles shot by Royal Engineer Lieutenant Archibald ("Archie") Jack of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners records local scenes and local activities in Northern India in areas marked by ...

Irrawaddy river, Burma, 1 Apil 1942. View of various small civilian boats on the Irrawaddy, including "Sunlight". Wooden boom across the river. Men at work on the construction of the boom. Various small civilian boats including "Cameo". Portrait shot ...

April 1942. Turkish Military Mission in the grounds of General Auchinleck's home in Cairo. The members are General Sefik Cakmak, Chief of Air Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Pahsin Yazici, Major Calal Alcoc, ...

I. Springtime agriculture in Southern Crimea. Peasants dig earth against distant background of snow-tipped mountains and vineyards beside sea (Black Sea bordering Southern Crimea ?). Tractors drive out of plant and plough between trees. German ...

I. Reopening of Croatian Parliament. Croatian leader Ante Pavelic walks at head of ceremonial procession to old parliament, closed for past twenty-five years. Pavelic climbs stairway and mounts podium to express his thanks to Germany and ...

I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted by elephants when they visit an ancient Buddhist temple at Kelaniya. Monks watch the procession. The Admiral ...

The work of a Victory Kitchen, a government relief scheme. Vegetables and fruit are brought to Pitkali market by farmers then bought in bulk by a representative of the Communal Feeding Department. Carts ...

AYY 187/1. 30 Jan. 1942. Visit of Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Gustavus Testa and First Secretary Monsignor Charles Perico to captured German Catholic clergy and German and Italian prisoners at Helwan ...

I.The Duke of Gloucester visits Headquarters, 30 Corps, on the Alamein Line. He is greeted by Major General Ramsden, Corps Commander, and Major General Pienaar and Lieutenant-General Morshead, General ...

Simla and New Delhi. At 'The Races'. Large Military Parade. Govornor's Garden Party. Tiger hunt with large group of elephants. Servants attending to the preparation of clothing for formal occasions. Hunting expeditions.

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Tour in Upper Garhwal 1941-42. (Punjab) Scenic journey through high mountain country. Villages in the high mountains with local village life. Rope bridges over wide mountain rivers being crossed. European lady being carried in a ...

Unedited rushes. Palestinian WAAFs at No. 10 Maintenance Unit, Kesfareet.

I. Magwe, Burma, 24 February 1942: Bristol Blenheim Mk IV of RAF Squadron 113 on bombing raid on Mataban. Shots of Bristol Blenheim Mk IV aircraft on the runway at Magwe refuelling and preparing for take-off. A brief shot of a small dog being pulled by ...

I. 'GIBRALTAR.' The Duke of Gloucester and Lord Gort (C-in-C Gibraltar) on a tour of the defences of "Britain's stronghold at the gateway to the Mediterranean". Panoramic views of the Rock of Gibraltar from the sea with Merchant shipping using the ...

I. 'SOUTH AFRICA.' Motorcycle outriders lead a parade of South African infantry armed with Lee-Enfield .303-in Mk III rifles. The parade is watched by a large number of civilian onlookers. The commentary states following a call from General Smuts, ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' An introduction to some of the latest types of United States aircraft arriving disassembled in crates as part of the Anglo-American lend-lease scheme. Crated aircraft parts are towed into an assembly area. Anti-corrosion paint ...

I. 'AUSTRALIA.' Imperial Australian forces led by a brass band march past crowds of civilian onlookers along a street in central Melbourne. The commentary states that Australia is in the war "up to the hilt" over scenes of parading Bren gun carriers ...

I. 'HMS DUKE OF YORK.' The commentary points out that the battleship HMS Duke of York (King George V Class) was the ship which took Churchill on his recent visit to the United States. HMS Duke of York is visible on the horizon with smoke from her ...

I. 'THE DAY WILL COME.' The commentary outlines a history of Japanese aggression over footage of Emperor Hirohito of Japan inspecting armoured crews with SHI-KI command tanks evident in the background. Japanese SHI-KI, CHI-HA and I-GO amphibious ...

I. 'AMERICA'S NEW FLYING WING.' A Northrop N9M-B flying wing (one third scale development aircraft for the projected XB-35 bomber) has its propellers hand-started and taxies for a take off from salt lake flats (Muroc ?), its tricycle undercarriage ...

I. 'THANKS TO THE NAVY.' The commentary outlines events leading to the despatch of the largest supply convoy yet to Malta under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Vian, who is shown posing for photographs on the deck of an unidentified Royal Navy ...

India.

A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this edition devoted entirely to matters Indian by stressing the contrasts found in the landscape between ...

I. 'BOMBER COMMAND STRIKES AGAIN.' Short Stirling bomber aircraft of 7 Squadron RAF are parked at dispersal prior to a raid on the Renault works at Billancourt, France. The Stirling's Bristol Hercules engines are warmed up as a tractor tows bombs of ...

I. 'ATS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' British Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) members are helped from the back of a truck on arrival at the ATS training centre at Sarafand, Palestine. ATS recruits are marched to an initial interview with an ATS Lieutenant ...

I. 'LORD GORT, GOVERNOR OF MALTA.' Air Marshal Tedder (Air Officer Commanding, Middle East) and Sir Walter Monckton are given a tour of Malta by Sir William Dobbie shortly before his retirement. Lord Gort, the new Governor, chats with them. The ...

Malta.

I. 'MALTA.' The commentary states that this film is dedicated to the people of Malta, "who can take it and give it!" Aerial views of Valletta follow showing extensive damage from Axis bombing. Maltese ...

I. 'JEEPS.' The commentary introduces the "Jeep" (General Purpose utility vehicle GP) over views of British Army officers driving a Willys MB 4x4 Jeep at speed along a Cairo street. The vehicle's ability to negotiate rough terrain is aptly ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' The commentary stresses that "Britain's victory production drive is in full swing" and that tank production in particular is increasing in volume. Female factory workers brush anti-corrosion paint into vulnerable areas of an ...

I. 'ARMY POLICE DOGS.' Dog handlers from the Corps of Military Police march along with their canine charges as the commentary points out that many of the animals were handed to the Army police school for the duration of the war. The dogs, guided by ...

September 15th, 1940 - The Day that Saved the World.

I. 'SEPTEMBER 15th 1940-THE DAY THAT SAVED THE WORLD.' A retrospective edition covering events of interest in the two years following the aforementioned date. The ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' King Haakon VII of Norway accompanied by Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha mount a viewing podium in Hyde Park to view a march past of Free Norwegian subjects on the occasion of the King's seventieth birthday. ...

I. 'NEWS FROM AMERICA.' The commentary states that mass production in the shipyards is America's reply to the U-boats. A large commercial shipbuilding yard is shown with heavy-lift cranes and slipways evident. Invited women dignitaries pose for ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' Stockshot footage shows United States (US) infantry disembarking from the merchant troopship St Mihiel at a port in Northern Ireland in 1918. The commentary contrasts the arrival of the 1918 "Doughboys" with their counterparts ...

I. [Reel One] 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' Members of the Home Guard patrol Lake Windermere in small motor boats mounting a Vickers .303-in heavy machine guns on the bow. The commentary points out that until the arrival of the motor boats, the lake was ...

Promises Fulfilled - [Supplies].

I. 'PROMISES FULFILLED.' North American B-25 Mitchell bombers of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) fly in loose formation. Royal Air Force (RAF) Martin Baltimore bombers drop ...