Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.

(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides a brief and uncritical review of progress made in Nigeria - Lagos converted from a ...

The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.

On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...

(22B/second series) June/July 1947: Dr Magnes (President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem) addresses members of UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine), speaking in English at the end of a luncheon; Sandstrom chairman of UNSCOP ...

(16B/second series) July/August 1946: With the leadership of the Jewish Agency imprisoned by the British on 29th June 1946 (called by the Jews 'Black Sabbath') Golda Meir was in acting command of the Jewish Agency. As an act of defiance she ...

Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram Militia on the North-West Frontier records social and military activity, and the landscape, between August 1946 and ...

Record for regimental historical purposes of the presentation of new colours to the 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D L A Gibbs, in Singapore on 10 July 1947.

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Amateur film with titles shot by Dr David Bates of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) while serving with the British Army in Occupied Japan records mainly scenes of traditional rural life and religious festivals, but also shows the devastation at ...

Indian troops on parade. Independent India flag visible in background. Sikh troops with red turbans and white spats. Shot of the Gateway to India archway in Bombay. Shot of memorial. A flypast. A rainbow over a ...

Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence in 1948) ...

Offcuts from several of Colonel Hodgkinson's films.

Aerial shots of a river and surrounding jungle. Brief shot of vehicles ascending a mountain track, some snow on adjacent ...

Amateur film of a young woman surrounded by crowds on an Indian street. Colonel Hodgkinson does not identify who Althya is - it is possible that she is Althya Clark Youngman, an American ...

An Indain man and two women sitting on a bench in the grounds of Government House, New Delhi. A man walks towards the camera carrying a large basket of flowers on his head. A large group of servants. A group (British), ...

Close-up of a lamp? on the side of a building with a crown on top. Scenes of the Governor General's Bodyguards (mounted Sikhs with red tunics), Government House, New Delhi. Detailed close-up of one of the guard. Close ...

Two women (Ditty Hodgkinson, wife of Colonel Hodgkinson and Edythe?) and a man walk through the gardens of Government House, New Delhi. The two women walk towards the pond. Ditty picks a small orange? from a tree and ...

A group shot of members of the (first) Indian cabinet, although, other than close-ups of Nehru and Lord Mountbatten, only one or two other faces are seen .

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Views of a military display by Indian troops. Manipuri? dancers perform. More troops and a military band march past. A motorcycle display. More Manipuri? dancing.

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A young Indian woman stands on a station platform, holding a package. Acharya J B Kripalani about to board a train, poses for the camera with two guards. Brief shot (from behind) of a groom? in a red turban surrounded ...

A crowd of people at a railway station, Acharya J B Kripalani in the centre. People sit in the street selling goods. A brief shot of a fakir? View of the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta.

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Two Indian men, one holds a long handled axe, the other a rifle. Close-up of a man posing with a pistol. Close-up of part of a hand-made rifle? Close-up of a man demonstrating a pistol. Another close-up of the hand-made ...

An officer (arm badge is a red eagle on a black background) stands in front of a wall map of India, talking and pointing at the map, particularly at Punjab and the Northwest Frontier. A close-up of the officer in front ...

Punjab, India.

Shot of refugees crowded onto a stationary train, others try to climb aboard. Aerial views of stationary trains and refugees.

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Scenes at refugee camp Punjab, Northwest India.

Brief shot of Lady Mountbatten talking to people at a refugee camp. Two men in a street take leaflets from a man in a bookshop. Refugees ...

Scenes of Lord and Lady Mountbatten leaving Government House, Delhi.

A presentation ceremony; Lord Mountbatten presents awards/plaques to troops outside Government House?. A shot of RAF ...

Lord Mountbatten shaking hands with Indian officials at airport? Lady Mountbatten, one of her daughters (Patricia?) and Nehru walk past. A man holds two ceremonial swords? mounted on a wooden base (a further close-up ...