Messages home from British Army and Navy personnel (including WRNS) in India to their loved ones in the Oldham area. Canteen scenes.

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Roy Francis is one of the servicemen appearing. He is referred to only as 'Roy'.

Messages home from British Army and Navy personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.

Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.

Messages home from British army personnel stationed in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. External scenes.

Messages home from British Army and RAF personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.

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Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Worcester area. Canteen Scenes.

Messages home from British Army and Navy personnel in India to their loved ones in the Southampton area. Canteen scenes.

Indicative extract from recording: Unidentified Serviceman: Howdy there! I think your husband ...

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Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland. Canteen scenes.

Those appearing: Dvr D W Rennie, RASC to his wife, Mrs D W Rennie, 12 Kingscross Road, Beechwood; Stoker I A J ...

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Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland and to some in South Wales. Canteen scenes.

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Amateur film of the Regal Cinema staff in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, recreating in the garden behind the cinema their contribution to the nationwide Salute the Soldier Week, in 1944. The usherettes, dressed in the ...

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Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port Moresby (New Guinea) and then to Dobdura airfield. Australians and Americans deplane. US First Cavalry Division forms up at ...

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I. 'INDIA.' An unidentified merchant ship is berthed in Calcutta Docks having arrived with a consignment of Australian wheat in support of relief operations in famine stricken Bengal. Grain is unloaded by hoist from the merchantman's hold and stored ...

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I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army M3 Stuart light tanks and soft-skinned vehicles drive along a jungle track during the fighting in defence of Imphal (Assam). British M3 Grant tanks drive along a jungle track. Aerial footage shows the harsh terrain ...

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 ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. INDIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON COMMANDERS FOREGATHER AT DELHI

I. INDIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON COMMANDERS FOREGATHER AT DELHI - Music: 'Flying Squad'. Group Captain Proud is saying goodbye to IAF ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. BENGALS SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SITUATION IMPROVED

I. BENGALS SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SITUATION IMPROVED - Watching army trucks being loaded with precious food grains. Mr Casey, Bengal's new ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. BOMBAY'S GENEROSITY IN A HUMANITARIAN CAUSE

I. BOMBAY'S GENEROSITY IN A HUMANITARIAN CAUSE - A cheque is a dull-looking object, so Bombay's Red Cross Committee put this one in a silver ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "MR. GANDHI RELEASED" Gandhi is released from the Aga Khan's palace after a year and a half. Initial scenes of correspondents standing at the palace gates, but, "as Mr Aney explained to enquiring journalists, Mr Gandhi ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" Touring members of the National Defence Council meet Indian troops, the "good soldiers", in the Middle East. The Honourable Syed Miran Mohammed Shah ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "WEST AFRICAN'S ROLE IN INDIA'S DEFENCE" West African troops, "toughened by the toughest climate in the world", arrive in Burma for jungle warfare training and assault courses. They then fight the enemy for six months ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "KHALSAS WINS M.U.C. GOLD CUP" The Gold Cup Final (soccer) in Madras is won by Khalsa College. The match is stopped after fighting breaks out between players, and then spectators. The award of the trophy is postponed; ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "RAILWAYS ENSURE SAFETY FIRST" A passenger train collision with a concrete block, placed across the line, is staged by rail officials in India. Scenes of the crash in slow motion. Commentary notes "the greatest single ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PRESENTS NEW COLOURS TO THE FOURTH BOMBAY GRENADIERS" The Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, arrives in Bombay aboard a modern transport plane, carrying the new colours for the ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "THE EMIR OF KATSINA COMES TO INDIA TO SEE HIS WEST AFRICAN TROOPS" The Muslim Emir of Katsina (on the Gold Coast in northern Nigeria) visits Delhi's Jami Masjid mosque, introduced by the Maulvi. The Emir views mortars, ...

INDIAN NEWS PARADEGB, India

I. "MUSLIMS WIN BOMBAY PENTANGULAR TOURNAMENT FINAL" Cricket veteran Hardstaff comments "I don't remember a more thrilling match in my life" in response to the Hindu-Muslim cricket encounter in Bombay. Featured players ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Bodh Chandra Singh, Maharaja of Manipur ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: The QUEEN HONOURS A.T.S. DIAMOND JUBILEE OF BOYS' BRIGADE ITALY LORD WAVELL LEAVES FOR INDIA GREAT U.S. AIR ASSAULT

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA COAST DEFENCE PRESENTING SEAFIRES LIGHTER MOMENTS IN THE DESERT MANNED BY WOMEN KENYA POLICE AT FOOTBALL INDIANS IN TUNIS R.A.F. TREBLES WEIGHT OF AVERAGE ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: FIFTH ARMY ACROSS THE VOLTURNO PERSONALITIES: LORD LINLITHGOW, LORD LOUIS, MR.EDEN (LORD LINLITHGOW ARRIVES BACK IN ENGLAND) (LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES IN INDIA) (MR. ...

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An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.

Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...

INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWSGB, India

I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN FRONT - Pictures of His Excellency The viceroy, Lord Linlithgow's flying visit to the Eastern Army operational Areas and RAF bases.

I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN ...

INDIAN MOVIETONE NEWSGB, India

I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.

I. SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - India mourns the great loss of Sir Sikandar Hyat ...

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The Indian contribution to the war effort.

Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, with statue of British monarch visible in the background. Billboard with cartoon picture of Churchill saying, 'To ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AND GANDHI ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ENTHRONED COLONEL OF THE GRENADIERS COMMANDO: THE ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BIGGEST CONVOY REACHES INDIA THE MASTER PLAN THE DAY SHIFT TAKE OVER

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Amateur film of the construction of a road in Assam from Ledo to Assam by the Indian Tea Association.

Pan over hill terrain showing the route of a road under construction. A European in shorts standing by a lorry. Pan over hill ...

USA

The situation in India in 1942.

Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in formation and dropping bombs; Indians looking up in the air for the aircraft: 'to no people has war come with more shock and ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES FOR HERSELF PRIME MINISTER AND GENERAL SMUTS AT DOVER TOUGH TACTICS CHINESE ARMY IN INDIA ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. COMES HOME CAPTIVES FROM NAZI SEA RAIDER HOME TOWN GREETS AUSSIE V.C. OUTPUT OF ...

BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN PARLIAMENT ACCLAIMS FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS

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Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.

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A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the first half of the Second World War.

Commentary recalls WW1 service and inter-war status as a frontier force, over shots ...

India

Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.

The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...

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India.

A map of India shows the provinces, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea. The commentary introduces this edition devoted entirely to matters Indian by stressing the contrasts found in the landscape between ...

Crane Collection

Gulmarg, Autumn

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The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its greatest danger") and determination ("Preparing for the attack which must come").

Film stresses the global nature of the war, and ...

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British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.

Opening titles "Burma. A War Correspondent's Despatch. Film and Story by Maurice Ford". A ...

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I. "News from Ceylon." Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, and Sir Henry Turnbull, Officer in Command, are escorted by elephants when they visit an ancient Buddhist temple at Kelaniya. Monks watch the procession. The Admiral ...