I. "Vision of Peace in the Philippines." Natives on Mindanao work on a hemp plantation, planted two years ago by Japanese settlers. Palms are cut, dried, bound in bales and weighed. People of Asia have for generations suffered under the domination ...
CINEMAGAZINE(?) London scenes round Fleet Street; a brief dramatised history of the British policeman; tribal dances.
No title. View across Fleet St with stone arch leading to Middle Temple, the half-timbered Prince Henry's Room half ...
No titles. Shots from the same camera viewpoint showing horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians and an electric tram arriving at an alighting point and stopping in Cape Town (70ft).
TV coverage of Aden in 1959.
The history of Aden and its importance now as a port and oil refinery. Intended for secondary schools.
The violence against the British presence in Aden and the future of the South Arabian Federation. Llew Gardner spoke to the Secretary-General of the South Arabian League in Aden and Robert Kee spoke to Duncan Sandys and ...
TV Coverage of Aden. Prefer to be British? Shots of Ports and Ships.
DOCUMENTARY. A report on the political situation in Aden and the role of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Includes an interview with Lt. Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.
Rediffusion logo (00:04). Opening ...
Unedited colour film of Royal Marine Commandos in four jeeps and two trucks on patrol in a rocky arid district surrounded by mountains.
Two Marines sit perched on a cliff while the camera pans towards the mountains ...
Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound during rough searching of Arab suspects), and of mute rushes of British soldiers on patrol, unarmed, in the peaceful British ...
British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...
News report on the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on security operations in the Crater district of Aden during the Aden Emergency.
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Titling includes "A BBC Television Film. Hanford. BBC. D.5607/5608. Hard News. ( ...
Admiral W N Fechteler USN visits Malta, November 26 1953.
Admiral Fechteler emerges from Skymaster to be welcomed by Admiral and Lady Mountbatten. He takes salute and inspects Guard of Honour ...
Rear-Admiral Harcourt inspects RAF detachment and chats with Wing Commander and Air Commodore. The Admiral then walks across the grass field to inspect crews fell in before their Spitfire aircraft - the nearest ...
Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...
Rear-Admiral Servaes and Captain Dick of HMS Belfast attend a service of thanksgiving in cathedral at Shanghai. The Admiral then visits the British internees at the Sacred Heart Hospital - a man demonstrates a ...
I. Rear-Admiral Servaes pays a visit to Ash Camp, the wartime internment area for British and Allied subjects in Shanghai. The Admiral, accompanied by a Lieutenant-Commander RNVR and a marine officer, shakes ...
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham (Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Mediterranean) holds his first Area Commanders' meeting at HAFMED, Malta.
Various Area Commanders and other Chiefs of Staff arrive, ...
Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port Moresby (New Guinea) and then to Dobdura airfield. Australians and Americans deplane. US First Cavalry Division forms up at ...
Unedited rushes. Filmed in Tobruk, the Western Desert and West Africa.
Includes Wellington material in Tobruk and Hurricanes in West Africa.
I. British and Indian forces, and the Arch of Chosroess, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.
Indian soldiers resting after a march. An Indian water-truck column refilling their trucks from a river using hosepipes and pumps. ...
Indian and some British forces on the Mesopotamian Front, 1917-1918.
British "Territorials" in winter clothes march along a road in Mesopotamia, followed by a unit of cyclists. Indian soldiers marching. A 1-pounder ...
As troops of 5th Indian Division ...
In northern Burma, probably in the vicinity of the Shweli river north of Myitson, troops of 2nd Battalion The Buffs advance through jungle, Major- ...
Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and infrastructure around the city.
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Set in Africa just after the Boer war, tells of the journey of four men into the African bush, in search of hidden diamonds.
Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as mines on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma ...
"Sir Alan Cobham makes final trials over the River Medway, of the all-metal flying-boat 'Singapore'". Map showing the route to be taken (10- 23). The flying-boat taxi-ing across the water (30). Long shot of men in the flying ...
A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.
Low altitude (c.100-ft) air-to-ground footage of ...
Aerial views showing DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.
Aerial views over the Chindwin; various meanders and sandbars. View of ...
Aerial views of jungle terrain filmed from one of the helicopters of 848 Squadron.
Aerial views of jungle-covered hills. The tops of the ridges are obscured by a dense cloud layer which the ...
Aerial shots over the Falklands coastal region; badly damaged buildings.
(Reel 1) Shots show Falklands Sound and other areas from the air. Signs of the recent battle are just about evident (the ...
Adventures of Trinidad night-club dancer and brother of her murdered husband in tracking down group of enemy spies responsible for the crime.
Amateur footage of shot of delegates for the peace negotiations of the Third Afghan War arriving at the Torkham (frontier), in a mountainous area (27). Views of the Afghan delegation (73ft).
TRAVELOGUE. 1920s footage of African wildlife with added commentary and Ravel's Bolero.
Wildlife - zebras, ostriches; ostrich shot by man in solar topee. Visit to grave of Cecil Rhodes. Victoria Falls. African ...
HOME MOVIE. Amateur footage of various localities in Africa, including Victoria Falls and possibly South Africa.
Victoria Falls. Men in pith helmets lighting cigarettes. Railway bridge over gorge. Train. Children in pith helmets. ...
Travelogue. Scenes of African life. Probably offcuts and clips from different films.
No main title. Street scenes in a North African/Arab town; narrow streets, only pedestrians present, shop fronts onto street, Arab dress and Muslim ...
Drama set in Kenya. Two American cowboys are recruited by a British rancher to help him in a project involving the capturing and taming of wild animals and by breeding new stock to provide a source of food. The object is to halt the ...
Documentary. Tracing the road from French Equatorial Africa to Kenya.
Fort Lhani(?) French Equatorial Africa to British East Africa by road. The Vanana(?) tribe `beehive' buildings, central granary building, people fishing, a tomb. ...
Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society in South Rhodesia at Inyati, Hope Fountain, Dombodema, Shangani and Lupani. Surveys evangelism, education, farming and agriculture, handcrafts, health and maternity services.
In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an audience and shows film that he shot in Africa.
Presented as a lecture, The Professor introduces ...
Standard tourist film about the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.
CARTOON. Trigger-happy big game hunter, Flip The Frog, is captured by cannibals. They attempt to cook him in a cauldron. Flip escapes after playing a flute melody which leads the flames away from the cauldron and after the men of the village but he ...
A look at modern life in several south African countries.
An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force are seen on manoeuvres in Ceylon, the Gold Coast regiment are shown building a ferry, and the ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. View of the village belonging to the Mashona tribe. Cattle and goats are herded through the village. Children play. Villagers leave their huts carrying implements for the day's work (38). Ground is cleared of tree roots and ...
INTEREST. The behaviour and antics of chimpanzees. Titles (63). Chimpanzee (91). Cherry Kearton and chimp, chimp playing, smoking, drinking tea, swinging on branches (260), chimp chasing leopard and other animals (334), attacking people, ...
