I. 'INVASION NEWS.' A Royal Air Force (RAF) 4x2 David Brown light tractor tows a bomb train of 60-lb 3-in aircraft rockets past a parked Hawker Typhoon Mk IB fighter aircraft (no Squadron codes visible). The commentary outlines the specifications of ...

I. 'THE RAINS CAME.' An item that covers the efforts made by the Allied forces in Burma to adapt to the changing operational conditions caused by the arrival of the monsoon season. Heavy rainfall lashes at a tented Royal Air Force (RAF) encampment in ...

I. 'BURMA.' An item introducing the activities of the Chindits in Burma and relating to the capture of the strategic Burmese market town of Mogaung by elements of the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade. A Chindit column is shown on the move on a jungle ...

I. 'ITALY.' The Allied advance on Florence (Tuscany). British Eighth Army M3A1 White scout cars and Daimler scout cars raise dust as they move in convoy along an Italian country road. British Jeeps and Staghound Mk I (Chevrolet M6) armoured cars move ...

I. 'INDIA'S YOUNGEST V.C.' General Claude Auchinleck presents the Victoria Cross (V.C.) to Sepoy Kamal Ram of the 8th Punjab Regiment at Lahore. Kamal Ram, the youngest recipient of the V.C., is carried shoulder high by his regimental comrades. Kamal ...

I. 'ROCKET-FIRING PROJECTILES.' Footage taken in the interior of a British armaments factory highlights the various production steps in the manufacture of 60-lb 3-inch rocket projectiles (RP) for aircraft. Female factory workers fill RP casings with ...

I. 'THE KING IN HOLLAND.' King George VI chats to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Commander 21st Army Group) and Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst (Commander 38 Group, RAF) on his arrival in Holland. The King inspects units of a British Armoured ...

I. 'WESTERN FRONT.' A Royal Navy (RN) rocket-firing landing craft (LCT-R) fires ripple-salvos at German positions on Walcheren Island in support of the Anglo-Canadian operation to clear the islands of enemy troops and open up the Scheldt Estuary to ...

I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army infantry patrol the jungle on the Arakan Front armed with Lee-Enfield Mk III .303-inch rifles. Indian troops lead a mule train over very rough ground. Heavy rainfall lashes a British tented encampment as troops ...

I. 'FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY.' This item duplicates Item II of WPN 139.

II. 'NEW GUINEA- AN EPIC OF JUNGLE WARFARE.' This item duplicates Item III of WPN 139.

III. 'CHIANG KAI-SHEK HOST TO ALLIED LEADERS IN ASIA.' Lord Louis Mountbatten chats ...

I. 'GUNNERS OF HINDUSTAN.' This item duplicates Item I of WPN 141.

II. 'RUSSIA.' This item duplicates Item IV of WPN 141.

III. 'GLIDER TROOPS PREPARE FOR AIRBORNE INVASION.' Panoramic footage shows Waco CG-4A troop carrying gliders parked ...

I. 'ITALY- BOMBERS OVER THE SANGRO.' This item duplicates Item III of WPN 140.

II. 'LIVING OFF THE LAND.' This item duplicates Item IV of WPN 140.

III. 'SHEEP HERD MOVE TO NEW PASTURES IN US FAR WEST.' Large numbers of sheep are moved ...

I. 'THE CAPTURE OF TARAWA. On screen titling reads "Dramatic films of the bloodiest battle of the Pacific in which US Marines win vital Jap base in 76 hours!". Panoramic footage shows Allied merchant shipping at sea. A map shows the location of ...

I. 'WAR NEWS.' This item duplicates Item II of WPN 143.

II. 'US TESTS NEW TORPEDO BOATS FOR THE BRITISH NAVY.' Three United States (US) built motor torpedo boats (MTBs) are put through their paces by Royal Navy crews (MTBs have no pennant ...

Presentation of a Victoria Cross to Ghurkha Corporal Naik Agamsing Rai by Lord Wavell, after heroic action in Burma, June 1944.

Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied servicemen are stationed.

Activities in an Indian school where the children are taught the elements of agriculture as well as reading and arithmetic.

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U.S. MARINES CAPTURE TARAWA ITALIAN WAR NEWS GEN. SMUTS REVIEWS AFRICAN TROOPS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HONOURS MALTA SEA BATTLE HEROES RETURN TO PORT

The story of a patrol of eight Australian soldiers in New Guinea and their attack on a Japanese stronghold.

Account of soil erosion, its effects and the work of the Forestry Department to combatit.

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: NEWS FROM THE EAST BRITISH TROOPS IN GREECE ALLIED ENTRY INTO PATRAS

How the coconut palms from Travancore are processed and used. Shows the picking of the fruit, de-husking, drying and extraction of oil for use in soap, vinegar, cooking and light. Further products involve the breaking down of the fibre by native women ...

ACTUALITY: German version of "Attack" - The Battle of New Britain: An authentic account of U.S. attacks on Japanese - held New Britain in the Pacific. The narration in German explains the strategy of attack and emphasises the thoroughness of ...

CINEMAGAZINE. Stories include: women war workers; India: pigeon post; the Muslim New year; jet propulsion explained

ACTIVITIES AT THE SERENDAH BOYS' SCHOOL IN MALAYA, FOUNDED BY THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND.

India' s most popular instruments.

Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the great heritage of India is the rich variety of her musical instruments. There are more than 500 different ...

The 59th (Newfoundland) Heavy Regiment RA in action outside Antwerp in support of 53rd (Welsh) Division's operations on the Albert Canal.

A nine-man detachment from the regiment's No. 23 Battery is seen preparing a ...

Air-to-ground footage of RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers attacking installations and facilities at Moulmein (Mawlamyaing), Burma.

Air ...

A firepower demonstration near Imphal including mortar and shell fire, smoke screens and bombing by RAF Hawker Hurricanes.

Footage of a ...

Operation Transom, Anglo-American carrier air strike on Wonokromo oil refinery and the harbour of Sourabaya in Java, 17 May, 1944

Opening sequence showing HMS Illustrious and ...

King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret visit HMS King George V at Scapa Flow.

The royal party - HM King George VI, the Queen and Princesses ...

Carrier strike on Emmahaven and Indaroeng, Padang in South-West Sumatra.

HA.MS aft along the deck of HMS Indomitable to a running range of Barracudas - camera pans to follow ...

Strike against Car Nicobar Island on 17 October, 1944.

MS from focsle deck to X turret of cameraship HMS Renown - men sit on mushroom top ventilators in the foreground - a fuel ...

I. "Pacific: Japs raid Saipan." (Reel 1) Saipan is a B-29 base in New Guinea. Night scenes of burning B-29s. Daylight firefighting, bulldozer in action. Second attack 12 hours later. Heavy smoke palls.

II. "Pacific: GIs ...

Mute Newsreel dealing mainly with the fighting on Palau.

Marines wade ashore from LCAs. LS of the invasion fleet. Graphics indicate the location of Palau Island. LS of the effect of the naval bombardment - a smoke ...

Newsreel showing the fighting on Bougainville, November 1943-March 1944.

CU of MacArthur and Nimitz. The location of Bougainville. LS of shore bombardment by destroyer's Ground support - MS of ...

Close bombardment of Sabang by Dutch cruiser Tromp and RN and RAN destroyers. Cameraship was HMS Quality (?)

LS of battle fleet on the horizon - Illustrious Class carrier and ...

I. HMS Ceylon in port at Colombo. MS of Reverend Stephenson, the ship's chaplain, talking with Ceylonese dignitaries - Mr Mamujee, Mr de Silva and Mr Corea. Royal Marine band plays. MS pan right to left across ...

War with Japan.

Early Japanese successes. Film of troops training. Expansion halted by US forces. Battle of Midway - US air attacks on shipping. Japan still exploits world's second largest empire. ...

This RAF instructional film shows the Supermarine Spitfire's various rles in different theatres of war and traces the aircraft's evolution from the victory of the Supermarine S-5 in the ...

START 10:16:40 A view of a conical hill or kopje overlooking Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley and shots showing two Royal Navy officers, assisted by an African guide, scaling the peak and the panorama from this vantage point overlooking the south ...

START 10:30:58 A family group of Kikuyu women perform domestic tasks such as preparing meals and looking after infants. A group of male elders seated in a semi-circle drink maize beer through long straws from the same pot.

10:32:58 Six women, ...

START 10:45:42 Mr Robinson, a British settler living in Limuru near Nairobi, strolls out of his farm house onto the lawn, lights up a cigarette and surveys his property from the garden fence. He is joined by his wife and together they return to the ...

START 10:59:20 Scenes at Kisumu, Kenya's main harbour on Lake Victoria: timber is unloaded onto the quayside by a steam-driven dockside crane from a Lake steamer and African troops from the Belgian Congo embark on board the SS Rusinga, another vessel ...

START 10:00:15 Filmed from their small fishing boat, Ugandan fishermen cast a net in shallow water on Lake Victoria. A woman purchases fish for cash. Back on shore, teams of fishermen haul in nets and collect flat fish and a local breed of eel (?). A ...

START 10:15:15 An African man demonstrates how to start a fire, using a straight wooden stick and a flat section of wood similar in size and shape to a six inch ruler in which three semi-circular indentations have been made. Heat created by the ...