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Troops and armour are carried across the Irrawaddy River, Burma, at Myinze by a mixture of DUKWs and pontoon rafts.

British troops disembark from ...

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Brigadier Taunton, commander of 80th Indian Brigade (20th Indian Division) arrives at a Japanese airfield in Saigon as recovered Allied prisoners of war ...

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Brigadier R G Collingwood, commander of 33rd Brigade (7th Indian Division) holds a conference of officers on the eve of the crossing of the Irrawaddy ...

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Scenes filmed on 16mm Kodachrome in Hong Kong harbour after the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945.

START 00:21:09 Shots from the cameraman's vessel as it passes the port side of HMS Colossus, a 13,000-ton Royal ...

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With the reoccupation of Malaya British and Indian signallers of the Royal Corps of Signals and Indian Army Signal Corps work to restore communcations by both fixed telephone ...

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On Ramree Island off the Arakan coast of Burma, local civilians welcome British troops, who go sightseeing with a local headman before a Union flag is ...

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, presents British awards to personnel of the United States Army Air Force at the ...

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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 ...

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I. "The road to Mandalay." Report that the Fourteenth Army is beating back the Japanese is accompanied by film illustrating the difficult conditions under which this campaign is being fought: soldiers ford a shallow stream and continue on through a ...

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I. "Lady Louis inspects Indian hospitals." Lady Mountbatten visits a ward speaking to injured soldiers who are bedridden. Others practice "what is called occupational therapy" (sewing), a new idea. The purpose of Lady Mountbatten's visit is said to ...

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I. "Collapse of the Bridge." Engineers repair the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine shortly before its collapse. Film taken immediately after the collapse shows rescue operations under way, including a stretcher casualty being lifted from the buckled ...

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I. "Mandalay Falls." No actual film of the entry of troops into Mandalay, but coverage of a village on the outskirts being pounded by artillery, view of General Rees at a forward position and film of Indian and British troops moving forward along a ...

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I. "Italy. The Last Offensive." Mahratta troops from Central India move up before the 8th Army attack on the Senio River. Crocodile flame-throwers clear a path through an orchard.

II. "In the Wake of the Hun." Eisenhower visits the ...

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I. "Victory." As Big Ben strikes three o'clock, Churchill broadcasts a statement from his office: "Yesterday morning General Jodl and Admiral Doenitz signed the act of unconditional surrender... Hostilities will end at one minute past midnight on ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: ALLIES REGAIN INITIATIVE IN ARDENNES FROM OUR CAMERAMAN IN BURMA CANADA-RUSSIA AIR ROUTE IN FULL SWING

Offerings and a Hindu holy man in the Lushai Hills.

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For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER DIVE BOMBED ALLIED COMMANDERS MEET IN BERLIN BRITAIN'S GIFT TO RUSSIA "DEAR ISLES" HAIL KING AND QUEEN

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For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SURRENDERED U-BOATS NAZIS MARCH OUT OF HOLLAND THEIR MAJESTIES WITH INDIAN PRISONERS OF WAR AUSTRALIANS LAND IN BORNEO ANOTHER WEAPON OF VICTORY NEW HOUSING FOR BRITAIN

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include ROYAL VISIT TO ISLE OF MAN VICTORY IN BURMA BERLIN

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INTRODUCING "THE VAMPIRE" THE BELSEN TRIAL DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR SEE ENGLAND AGAIN SINGAPORE SURRENDERED

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include THE OCCUPATION OF TOKYO AND HONG KONG JAPANESE SURRENDER OF HONG KONG HOME AGAIN LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN VISITS PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS REPATRIATED MEN REACH SOUTHAMPTON

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For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include NEWS FROM THE CONTINENT THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE NEWS FROM THE EAST

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Allied prisoners of war (POWs), recently liberated from Japanese captivity at Rangoon jail, are seen boarding a ship at Rangoon docks for evacuation to ...

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Red and white flag of the Indonesian republic flying. Graffiti reads 'Freedom the glory of any nation'. Small pieces of paper on a wall read 'Our government is a government from ...

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As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...

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A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines and a local Chinese team.

General Festing, ...

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(Reel 1) Hurricane Mk Is of 111 Squadron at Northolt, 1939-1940. Fighter pilots practise air to air wireless communication by riding bicycles, fitted with radio sets in front of handle bars, across tarmac at Northolt. Experiment/training is watched ...

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Reel 1: A small motor launch draws alongside a troopship. A Major climbs a staircase up to the deck followed by a Major-General. Talking to a Military Policeman. The general is ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...

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Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.

Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...

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Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.

Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed ...

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High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in ...

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Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Miles Arrindell of the Second Battalion Suffolk Regiment records scenes during the Battle of Imphal, including a Japanese prisoner-of-war and the capture of the Isaac feature (June 1944), and later (after transfer to ...

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The Burma Rifles presenting arms. A brief shot of two naval officers and sailor. The Burmese Naval Reserves? on parade. Burmese Army? on parade (red shoulder flash with white five-point star). Close-up on ' ...

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Funeral of Sawbwa (ruler) of Hsipaw state, in the Northern Shan States of Burma, with parade by Gurkha Battalion (8th ?) who fire volley over coffin. Also scenes of gambling, presumably ...

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A DC3/C47 taking off from an airstrip and landing again. A group of Bhuddist monks (sayadaws).

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Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

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Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.

Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at ...

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This amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson appears to be reconstructed scenes of BNA exercises in the jungle.

Two Burmese soldiers, one plays the bugle. Burma National Army ( ...

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Film about the Allied victory in Burma.

Introduction briefly outlines the geography and climate of Burma, and the extent of the Japanese conquests. The film then describes the establishment of SEAC under Mountbatten, ...

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Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten takes the salute of the ...

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Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the representative ...

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Amateur film of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten taking the salute of the representative services at the Naval Review, Rangoon (17 ...

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Sync slates 64 to 66 from Burma Victory (not used in final production) with Mountbatten talking to officers about the excellence of the troops in India, and troops with band playing marching past the camera.

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Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while ...

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Titles (2). Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon (50). Boats on Irrawaddy River and (98) market on river bank (106). Mountain and river (118). Market on river bank (124). Sunset (128). Village (130). Men in stream prospecting (139). Village ...

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Liberated local people perform traditional dances for British and Indian troops at Pagan, central Burma.

Line of Burmese civilians in elaborate ...

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After the retreating Japanese abandon a trainload of foodstuffs in the face of the advancing 5th Indian Division near Pyu, Burma, local civilians are ...