Scenes in Malaya, 1956-57
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time ...
Scenes in Malaya, 1957
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time he ...
Scenes in Malaya 1956, 1960
Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Major William Lawrence in the 1950s and 1960s in Malaya, Australia, the U.K. and during his overland journey through Asia, India and Europe. During this time ...
Mainland Chinese refugees in Hong Kong.
Documentary about the Hong Kong Chinese as represented by the Lung family and their deep involvement with ancestral glory, coupled with a dynamic, forward-looking industrial scene.
Aerial MS of HMS Fife (D.20) steaming at sea, with HMS Tiger in the background - the camera aircraft circles across Fife's bows. Cut to Tiger where various of the negotiators are gathered on the quarterdeck - Sir ...
Helicopter hovering. SRN5 manoeuvring about desert airfield - clouds of sand etc. SRN5 at sea (from helicopter). Film slate: Derek Stewart productions Aden 29.11.65. CUs of SRN5 on airfield. At sea and in harbour.
Hovercraft SRN5 is tested as a patrol and transport craft.
CUs of Captain Peter Beacon at the controls as the hovercraft moves off. CUs of the radar and radio operators, and ...
Report in three sections.
1. British Gurkha troops guard against Indonesian infiltration in Borneo. Soldiers are seen at a front camp receiving supplies dropped from a Beverly, on patrol in the jungle, and preparing ...
Report in three sections.
1. Background to the fighting in Kashmir. Indian forces have now crossed the UN ceasefire line and are seen on patrol, counting enemy dead and manning check-points in Srinagar. Gouma Nkala ...
Report in three sections.
1. Terrorist campaign to force Britain to grant Aden independence before 1968 has spread from the Radfan Mountains where the Army and RAF have been attacking rebel positions to Qatar City ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report on the military tension on the border between Sikkim and China reveals the vulnerability of the small Indian protectorate. Film of a few Chinese soldiers with cameras gives no ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report on the likely consequences for Rhodesia if the London negotiations end in deadlock and Prime Minister Smith makes a unilateral declaration of independence. UDI would be treason, ...
Report in two sections.
1. Interview with Garfield Todd, who is under house arrest, and partial coverage of a news conference given by his gaoler Ian Smith. Former Prime Minister is pessimistic about Rhodesia's ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report on British Guiana which is negotiating for independence by February 1966, assesses the possibility of renewed violence after that date. Prime Minister Forbes Burnham (interview) ...
Report in two sections.
1. Life in Rhodesia appears to have been outwardly little affected by Smith's unilateral declaration of independence. During the week following UDI the Africans remained calm, while Rhodesians ...
Report on reactions to Ian Smith's UDI, in Addis Ababa, Lusaka and Salisbury.
Communiqu at end of Organisation of African Unity's meeting (opened by Haile Selassie) is vague, although reportedly member states may ...
Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...
Incomplete film on the role of British forces around the world in the mid 1960s, including a summary of the British units stationed in Gibraltar, Cyprus, North Africa, Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong and Guyana. Ian Mikardo, Labour MP for Poplar, comments ...
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, her charge and a callow subaltern. Baker hopes to escape by river to Khartoum but the wreckage of ...
A British regiment stationed in a newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal is ordered to hand over command to the African Captain Abraham pending the result of political ...
Jim and Jane tour Rhodesia.
Actuality: uncut footage, posibly out-takes of events during and surrounding the filming of "Thunderball" in the Bahamas.
Shots of large props including Harrier jet(?) being built; speedboat which separates from larger cruiser. Air ...
A documentary impression of some of the West Indians now living in Birmingham. Features a railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados.
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's cousin, with whom she builds up a world of their own.
The history and development of the site - a new township for industrial working blacks.
Marking the independence of Zambia in 1964, the aspects of the country, its potential as a devleoping country and something of its people.
Compareda and contrasted, Salisbury - Rhodesia and Salisbury - Great Britain.
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
Looks at the land development officer and the implementation of the Land Husbandry Act and other improvements, such as drainage, that can be made on the land.
Dramatised history of Rhodesian tobacco growers from 1927-1963.
The film opens with footage of a cricket match at the Umvukwes country club. The film¿s protagonist and commentator, R.S. Lawrence is playing, while his wife and father-in- ...
ITV coverage of the Trade Unions Congress in Southern Rhodesia, transmitted on 3 September 1964.
Dramatised history of Rhodesian tobacco growers from 1927-1963. The film opens with footage of a cricket match at the Umvukwes country club. The film's protagonist and commentator, R.S. Lawrence is playing, while his wife and father ...
An early recruiting film for the (then) recently formed Rhodesian Light Infantry (R.L.N.).
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a number of films ...
Current affairs report examines Britain's efforts to contain Indonesian guerrilla activity in Borneo and Sarawak (Malaysia), where 1st Battalion 7th Gurkhas are seen on patrol and are interviewed, and raises ...
British television news report interviews Major Vivian Robinson of Second Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles, presently countering Indonesians crossing into Borneo, and shows Wessex helicopter landing Gurkhas in jungle, patrol, radio communications, food, ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Peter Goldney of Royal Signals, when seconded to Army Air Corps, 653 Light Aircraft Squadron, Army Air Corps, records service in Aden State between July 1962 and April 1964 during campaign by nationalist forces against ...
1. the opening of the Zambian National Assembly 1964 - with tribal dancing, official celebrations and speech from the rostrum. 2. Family footage (visit to official gardens in Salisbury, Army family quaters, family pets, children ...
1. Military moments ; N. Rhodesian 1st. Battalion's last parade before Independence Day 1964. Last Queen's Birthday Parade at Ndola (Regular Army, T.A. and Police Units participating) Pres. Kaunda visiting a T.F. camp at Tug Argan ...
Giriama children on their way to Jilore Primary School, then singing, dancing and playing home made instruments. Boy Scout rally in Nyeri (Baden Powell burial place). Girl guides rally & spectators. Mombasa sports stadium: inter school ...
A train journey through Kenya to the coast by rail, by boat to Mozambique, and then by road to Capetown.
Holiday shots about Rhodesia: waterfall and craft centre and sailing
Trekking through the Southern Rhodesia on the tourist trial. Wankie National Park and its wildlife. Rhodes Tomb & Matopo Park . Salisbury City and its sites. Trip into Mozambique. Old slave fort at Tete. Mwanza. Afforestation in ...
Daily life, agriculture and industrial milieu, rural and urban life style, school scenes, sports, leisure, political campaigns . Carnival dancing. Political demonstrations . Speech by George Price-First Prime Minister. Opening of ...
The last meeting of the Board of Admiralty, the Army Council and the Air Council before the three services came under the control of the Ministry of Defence. The first Defence Council meeting and unified operations in practice in Aden.
