Reel 1: Credits roll over disintegrating Union Jack. Aerial view of Hong Kong establishes site of Britain's approaching defeat, here garrisoned by turbaned Indian troops. Union Jacks fly over commercial centre of the colony, where two well- ...
German sub-titled version of a Japanese film using a combination of documentary and feature material to cover the training of a Japanese Naval Air Force (JNAF) cadet prior to the attacks on Pearl Harbor and on the ...
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 ...
I. "Grand Imperial military revue." Emperor Hirohito on horseback takes salute at parade of Imperial forces (at Yoyoki ?) on 8 January. Prodigious successes in first month of war have led to collapse of Anglo-American aspirations in East Asia. ...
Documentary on Japanese advance through Malaya, attack on Singapore, British surrender and Japanese victory parade.
Heavily laden medium tank Type 97, CHI-HA with palm leaf camouflage advances along road flanked ...
Compilation covers the Japanese raid on Ceylon and occupation scenes on Guam and Wake Island in the Pacific.
Carrier force at sea. Mitsubishi A6M2 is pushed on deck. Japanese pilots on board an aircraft carrier ...
Compilation uses stock shot material to cover sinking of British Force Z off Malaya and actuality of airborne capture of Celebes and air attack on Allied fleet off Java.
Main title reads "Naval warfare off Malaya. ...
Compilation shows the Japanese attack on and occupation of New Guinea, the bombing of Darwin, the occupation of the Andaman Islands and the carrier action off Colombo.
"Capture of New Guinea". Japanese task force ...
I."Build new Philippines! Fight for greater East Asia! Air attacks over Hawaii!" Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Commentary announces that Nippon declared war on the USA and Great Britain on 8 December 1941; map of Pacific region. Kaga and ...
An ambiguous piece of undocumented ...
"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 ...
British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.
Opening titles "Burma. A War Correspondent's Despatch. Film and Story by Maurice Ford". A ...
I. Film opens by listing outstanding RAF events of the year (then continues with two newsreel items) which show that 1942 was the year of passing to the offensive. Outstanding achievements listed include Fighter Command's great sweeps, 1000-bomber ...
Unedited material of RAF activity in Gibraltar. No combat footage.
Main subject is the Special Erection Party assembling Spitfires and test flights in mid-1942, prior to Operation Torch; for a shot by shot analysis ...
I. "The Promise of 1942." Survey of major political and military developments of 1942 which started inauspiciously with the loss of Singapore (peacetime views and evacuation of civilians) and ended encouragingly with success in North Africa and the ...
I. "Italy blitzed!" Scenes of the production of "even bigger and more beautiful bombs" (filling 2000-lb casings with explosives) introduce aerial film of a night raid on Genoa. Flares and bombs explode over a wide area as the commentary justifies ...
I. "African Troops In Madagascar." African troops disembark in order to protect Britain's sea-lines and to save the island "from being bartered to the enemy by the treachery of Vichy marionettes". Fake tom tom music accompanies a view of the troops ...
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 ...
I. "They must see in the dark." Airmen selected for night flying undergo a series of eye tests and corrective exercises at an RAF ophthalmic centre.
II. "Stirlings in the making." Stirling towed out of hangar. Production scenes show the ...
I. "Factory beats bomber." a. A munitions factory damaged in a tip and run raid manages to resume production after only five days. Workers step through rubble to reach factory while victims of the raid sit smiling in hospital. RAF officer explains the ...
Last part of information film aimed at US Marine Corps recruits combines archive and dramatised sequences to recall heroic resistance against Japanese of Marines on US Pacific island outposts (Guam, Wake) after Pearl Harbor, and ...
Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while under threat of Japanese invasion.
The film briefly outlines the various factions - in particular the ...
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 ...
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 ...
