INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWSGB, India

I. AJMERE URS - An important Muslim pilgrimage lasting seven days - one of the biggest in India held yearly at Ajmere.

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II. GRADUATES FOR THE IAF - ' ...

INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWSGB, India

I. FLOOD DEVASTATIONS.

I. FLOOD DEVASTATIONS - First pictures of the devastating floods and the serious damage done in the Burdwan District, Bengal, and Vijayanagar near Ajmere.

INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWSGB, India

I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.

I. SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - India mourns the great loss of Sir Sikandar Hyat ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Indian sappers and miners clearing a pass in the mountains south west of the Mareth Line for the advance of the Fourth Indian Division. Cave dwellers in the Matmata mountains ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A visiting contingent of Indian troops of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

21 January. The Queens Royal Regiment in Bren gun carriers advancing along the road from Tarhunah on the last lap to Tripoli. The regiment marching in single file along the side of the road.

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India

Edited film with commentary depicting the Chindits setting out on Operation Longcloth, their first raiding expedition behind Japanese lines, under the leadership of Brigadier Orde Wingate.

Titles: 'Public ...

INTO BATTLEGB

An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.

Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

14 Sep.1943. Shots of the three large Italian ships off Malta, the cruiser Eugenio di Savoia and the battleships Italia (late Littorio) and Vittorio Veneto. Shots taken from the north coast of the island ...

MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

Cameracraft crosses bows of anchored Italian submarine and passes down starboard side to give CU of the conning tower - it is a Flutto Class boat, probably Vortice or Marea. MS off the submarine's starboard ...

Japan

Reel 1: Low angle medium close-up of (British or Australian?) prisoners of war (POWs), one of whom is a sergeant. A staff car passes flying a Japanese pennant; the rear window is open and a Japanese senior officer (general?) looks at the camera. ...

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Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records the construction from palm trunks and fronds of a 35mm projection cinema (Empire Super Cinema), with detailed views of projectionist lacing up, Indian troops (14th/5th ...

GB

Amateur film shot by Commander James C Elliot RNVR, while serving in the Mediterranean, records a distant view of King George VI touring bomb-damaged Malta on his visit in June 1943, and shows eight 20mm anti-aircraft pom-poms firing.

MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

HMS Aurora with a destroyer escort carries King George VI from Tripoli to Malta in Operation Anchor.

Aurora approaches the entry to Grand Harbour, preceded by HMS Eskimo. The ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Two-part film showing (1) the arrival ...

Great Britain

Drama tracing the life of a crusty old man of World War II to his military beginnings as a dashing young officer winning the VC in the Boer War.

Layard Collection

Footage includes New Delhi, street demonstration and crowd outside mosque; site of 1911 Delhi Durbar; horse riding; very brief sequence of Lord & Lady Mountbatten seated in state. Five sequences.

Production / Donor Details: The ...

Unedited rushes.

MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

I. Scenes onboard a L Class destroyer escorting the convoy. Shots showing armament - 4.7-inch guns and 3-inch and 4x2-pounder AA - all trained to starboard. Accompanying destroyers include a Tribal, another L ...

Great Britain

This film describes the adventures of the famous convoy to Malta in August, 1942. It shows some general views of the island, and gives several shots of the ships in the convoy such as, the battleships Nelson and Rodney. After heavy ...

Tribute to the part played in the war by the people of Malta; shows actual raids and how the Maltese carried on their work.

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Film about the Axis air offensive against Malta.

British supply effort, upon which the island is dependent, is rendered difficult by the great distance of the island from British bases and its closeness to Italian ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Indian sappers and miners detect and clear mines left by the retreating Germans on the road beyond Gabs. The Fourth Indian Division Field Artillery in an attack on Mount ...

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START 00:00:00 Scenes on HMS Nelson whilst en route for North Africa for Operation 'Torch': an officer from No. 9 Army Commando and stores on the main deck. At Gibraltar, ratings line up with brooms and placards with ironic, humorous messages and ...