Sir Shenton Thomas formally opens the King George VI Dock in Singapore.

Amateur film shot by Flight Lieutenant McKenna (later Squadron Leader), while serving as liaison officer to German expedition investigating effects of high altitude for aviation research. The films record scenes during the ...

Amateur film by A F (Mac) McKenna of a visit with friends ? to the Khyber Pass and Srinagar, Kashmir.

Shot of the frontier at the Khyber Pass. A car parked at the barrier, two British women (one wearing trilby is ...

Amateur film of a family visit to the Northwest Frontier, India.

A woman walks in front of a palace/temple. Smoke coming out of a tower in the palace/temple. Two stone elephants flank the entrance. Views of the ...

Amateur film of British bombing raids in the Northwest Frontier, near Afghanistan.

A view of a Hawker Hart (India) (K-2120) in flight, filmed from an adjacent aircraft. The aircraft drops a bomb. Brief shot of the ...

Amateur film of a visit to a temple in or near the Northwest Frontier, India.

Shots of a dog-like animal. A car parked near a large white temple. Local children pose for the camera. People visiting the temple. ...

Native village. Troops crossing river. On bridge of steamer. Wide shot river, cu Paddles, helmsman, cu bank, Pagoda, ls boat, cu flag. Oiling engine. Shots of ferry. Pistons/boiler/firebox. Ls ...

Reel 1: (Can marked: Japan 1934) Views of mountainous landscape, shrines, Japanese lady in kimono and Japanese men in western dress, temples (Kyoto?) and lake scenes.

Reel 2: (Can marked: China) Street scenes in Chinese city, showing market, ...

Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring scenes in and around Hong Kong, early 1938.

The film begins with street scenes in Hong Kong and a sequence of children playing at a ...

Home movie of HMS Decoy and Delight on the China Station, visiting Shanghai and Swatow, in the summer of 1938.

In the summer of 1938 Captain Garnett (then Lieutenant) was temporarily ...

Ship voyage to India. Baby Lucinda in India with her mother in the domestic surroundings of the family home and garden.

Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady ...

Different views of Delhi, marching military band, Viceroy's arrival (Lord and Countess Linlithgow) at the Horse Show, various processions and displays of horsemanship and the musical ride by the Bikaner Camel Battery.

Production / ...

Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric Scheme from beginning to end, including shifting earth, rocks etc., drilling, building the foundations of the dam, bringing ...

Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric Scheme from beginning to end, including shifting earth, rocks etc., drilling, building the foundations of the dam, bringing ...

British Honduras: scenes on a typical tour to find suitable land for agriculture, including a forestry survey with forest officers. Shows typical transport hazards.

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Basutoland: dam building and ploughing. shots of daughter Shirley.

Nyasaland: ferrying the car across the boundary river; the rail terminus; on the lake; loading rice at the lake port.

Production ...

The Falls at Sivasanudrum; Dorothy's journey home with the children; Trooping the Colour on the Horse Guards; 1st Battalion arrives home 1938; Presentation of the Colours at Shorncliffe 1938.

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Contains the following intertitles:

Aurungabad; The chhota; Taj Mahal;

Falls on the Nerbudda River near Jubbolpore;

Marble rocks

Bomanji; A friend of the late Dr. Ruxton

Wynaad near Calicut; the Mackays; ...

Switzerland. India 1938

INTEREST. The growth of modern Iran under Shah Reza Pahlavi.

RL.1. "February 10th, 1937": Crowds waiting in Tehran for His Imperial Majesty Shah Reza Pahlavi to open beginning of new railway route to link Tehran with the Persian Gulf. Shah ...

AMATEUR FILM. Rice planting and growing in the New Territories from ploughing to harvesting.

Ploughing the field with oxen. Woman ploughing a field. Women planting rice. Harvesting and stacking rice. Ploughing fields.

AMATEUR. Amateur film of Sir Conrad Corfield and family and of colonial life in India.

Childrens school in England. House in Delhi at 1,King Edward Road. Gwalior residency - garden and swimming pool. Jaipur, March 1938. River crossing. The ...

The use of elephants in British India as working animals and in hunting.

A parable set in Palestine at the time of Christ.