A propaganda short ("un trois-minutes") stressing the combined strength of the French and British Empires.

After a few brief shots of visiting English royalty in Paris to indicate the existence of ...

(128A) February 1938: New High Commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael arrives at Haifa to take up his new office.

(129A) March 1938: Fire in a timber warehouse at Rehovoth. Firemen. Palestinian Police head out with tracking dogs. (This fire ...

(49A) Winter 1935/36: Celebrations in Biyat Vagin on planting trees.

(41B) November/December 1935: Municipal elections in Tel Aviv and electioneering.

(70C) January 1937: High Commissioner Wauchope visits Itzhar cosmetic factory ...

(147A) July 1938: Building of the Maale Hachamisha Kibbutz (chamisha means five in Hebrew). This kibbutz was built in memory of five young Jews killed on the site during an Arab guerrilla raid; halfway on the road between Jerusalem and Tel ...

Fund-raising film for the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps includes scenes of the Hong Kong Bureau's Supply and Transportation Departments, preparation and packing of medical supplies for shipping by Truck Ambulances to Changsha, evacuation of ...

Amateur film shot by Captain Paddy O'Neill of the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army, while attached to the Federated Malay States from November 1934 to January 1938, records scenes in Officers' Mess, battalion entraining for Kuala Lumpur, Palace of ...

Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The Viceroy inspects the detachment of Gurkhas, who play pipes then march past.

Notes

Summary based on viewing and writing by A V ...

Amateur film showing some aspects of life in pre-Second World War Burma. Inter-titles introduce most scenes.

Rangoon. The Shwe Dagon Pagoda. People around the Pagoda. A notice ...

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 ...