Mahatma Gandhi's funeral and refugees.

Gandhi's funeral procession, mourners dressed in white. A man at the front of the procession appears to be annoyed at the camera being there. ...

Two Indian servants hold ceremonial swords. Close-ups of the handles of the swords. The monogram MB appears on the servants' outfits. Shots of silver and gold goods and a decorative casket on display.

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Cars arrive at Government House, New Delhi. People gathered on the steps outside. Cars depart, crowds at the roadside. Mounted guards in a line outside Government House, Lord Mountbatten?, only just visible behind them, ...

St Paul's cathedral, Calcutta. An Indian man and woman and three British children walk through the cathedral gate towards the camera. Three Indian men pose in front of a door, they walk away to reveal a brass sign ' ...

Tribeswoman with baby on her back, hut on top of steep hillside. Villagers (the Puroiks (Sulungs)? in Assam), cockerel, exotic flowers, leaf insect, green snake, cutting trees, building hut, fire, cutting logs, making ...

Wide shot of bands marching onto parade ground. Bodyguard, Mountbatten as Viceroy at Government House. Horseman performing musical ride. Government officials with Mountbatten, gardens, fountains, man directing ...

A British officer stands in front of a wall map, points to mid-Atlantic then India. Focus in on India. Indian military bands and troops march in the grounds of Government House, Delhi. Close-up of a mounted British ...

Still shots of the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta. Street scenes. Close-up of a holy man (fakir?), and a small shrine next to him. More street scenes, beggars. Close-up of feet treading clay. A man sculpting a figure. ...

Reel 1: Scenes on board Empress of Australia on final stretch of voyage home from Bombay to Liverpool. Tug-of-war for soldiers on deck. Passing through Suez Canal to Port Said, passing military camp on port side. Official welcome on Liverpool ...

Mrs Layard out horseriding with servant and Mr Layard. Domestic outdoor scenes with 2 daughters. New Delhi: Kingsway and Viceroy's House. Landau in official procession with escort of troop of lancers. Family domestic scenes with ...

Films contain good colour footage of Capt. and Mrs. Crane's daily lives as an army couple at the end of the Raj.

Comprehensive pictures of the history of tea.

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include CANADIAN SEA CADETS VISIT H.M.S. VICTORY WHITEHAVEN DISASTER NEW DOMINIONS JOIN COMMONWEALTH SPECTACLE IN BERLIN

Amateur film by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: tours through his domain, and the funeral of a Maharajah.

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

A fishing trip by canoe on the River Barak (?): Indian porters on a bridge, scenes from the canoe (38). A European in shorts and topi stand by a fish held up by an ...

Includes: the signing of Burmese independence at No. 10 Downing Street.

Contains the items: Final Touches to Aintree Course Jet Power for Campbell's Speed Bid Amritsar's Ruins Mountbatten Leaves for India Australia's New Governor General Great Basuto Trek to Salute Royal Family

Palestine and its modern political problems: case of the Arabs and the Jews. This Modern Age series no.6.

Documentary of post war refugees in their own land in Palestine.

Amateur film by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: cadets exercising, Movietone film of the 1937 Coronation of George VI..

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include 1947 AND AFTER

Includes: the funerals of British soldiers, Sergeants Pace and Martin, in Ramich, killed by terrorist acts; speech by Winston Churchill to the Conservative party at Blenheim Palace.

Includes item on the Conference on Pakistan held in New Delhi.

Includes an item on the Independence movement in Hanoi; Jewish terrorist acts in Palestine.

For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BOMBAY BIDS FAREWELL TO BRITISH TROOPS ARSENAL 3 - SUNDERLAND 1: SOCCER SEASON'S FLYING START OUR ROVING CAMERAMAN LONDON - LAST TEST MATCH IN THE SERIES MONTGOMERY PRESENTS `DIGGER HAT' ...

Includes: Fly-pst commemorating Battle of Britain; Gandhi and his fasting for the cause of Hindu and Muslim unity.

A film depicting the work of the Palestine Police (i.e. British Police) training and going about their work in Palestine. Reel 2 has scenes of dog training, mounted patrols through villages, interaction with Arab Police on camels, ...

Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary Force, attached to 11th Infantry Brigade, records the eastward movement of Hindu refugees across the ...

BBC cameraman David Prosser provides the commentary for the film he shot of the flight by RAF Lancaster to within 900 miles of the North Pole, an "important landmark in the work of the Empire Air Navigation School".

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(Reel 1) Two Army Kinema Corporation (AKC) representatives and two Royal Engineers (RE) introduce each other and discuss a proposed army training film about sappers' tasks. The engineers want to use real footage to contextualise these tasks. A chart ...

A military training film emphasising the importance of keeping fit through exercise.

(Reel 1) L/S of queues for the Skylark boat in Southend, ice cream van, beaches, swimming, boys hurdling and sprinting. A couple ...

I. India. Mountbatten, accompanied by his wife, arrives in Delhi to take over as Viceroy. Airport ceremonies (Nehru); Mountbatten visits his predecessor Wavell and is visited by Gandhi (conversation during walk in garden ...

I. International Youth Congress in Munich. Delegates accommodated in Hotel City (converted bunker); conference scenes, with notable guests including Andr Gide (who later speaks) and Ernst Wiechert; proceedings opened by Harry ...

I. Research in bees and beekeeping at institute near Celle.

II. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. General Keating opens 'Biennial Exposition' in US Zone of Berlin: some of the stands (trade, 'CARE' packets, information ...

I. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. Miners at the Achenbach pit receive CARE parcels (100,000 from US Zone) as incentive/reward. b. Frankfurt's Burgermeister awards Goethe prize for philosophy to Karl Jaspers. c. Wrttemberg ...

I. "Small change once more." Introductory shots of German shoppers using postage stamps for small change owing to shortage of coin; Bavarian Minister President Ehard and US Governor Van Wagoner at Munich mint start up presses, ...

I. Factory in Germany produces "5 million pairs of spectacles every year": quite good film of lens cutting, grinding, mounting etc.

II. Nicaragua: South America's largest gold field maintained by air link with outside ( ...

Documentary on the religious life in Jerusalem during the time of Christ.

A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, you can prevent the spread of the disease.

Shows all stages in the cultivation of tea in Nyasaland.

Scenes from the service conducted by His Lordship the Bishop of Accra at Bukom Square, Accra, Ghana.

A film which shows the primitive conditions of the people of the northern region of the Gold Coast. It shows how a government plant to improve the cattle is working with the co-operation of the people.

Political and social life in India.

Credits. Crowd of Indians. Commentary states that among the contradictions of India a new nation is being born. Boys begging. Images of Gandhi, Jinah and Nehru. Banner reading 'Pakistan is our ...

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:

NO RETURN TO SIXPENCE IN THE POUND NEWS IN FLASHES ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH REVIEWS ARMY CADET FORC NEWS IN FLASHES ; LORD ALEXANDER LEAVES FOR CANADA INDIA MISSION MEETS ...

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: STATESMEN CONFER FOR PEACE 50 YEARS ON WHEELS OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS ; LONDON ; TABLE MOUNTAIN ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA VANCOUVER ; WASHINGTON PALESTINE OUTRAGE! QUEEN OPENS ...

The film describes how a mission-trained Africanboy returns to his home village, having been at the mission school since a baby, to act as missionary amongst his own people.

Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and the women are shown at their separate labours at home and in the fields. Included are scenes of harvesting, fishing, food ...

A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.

A British voiceover introduces the Bantu people living north east of Kenya's Lake Victoria, explaining that their deficiencies on the land - ' ...