Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while under threat of Japanese invasion.

The film briefly outlines the various factions - in particular the ...

"Lowell Thomas Magic Carpet of Movietone" "The Thaw Asiatic Expedition in Cinecolor" A visit to glittering Mysore. The Thaw's host, the Maharaja of Mysore, is shown around the expedition tour vehicles. Krishnaraja Sagar dam. ...

Crashed Stuka plane with pilot's body burning under fuselage. Troops from the 8th Indian Brigade advance in the background with a Bren carrier. Close up of burning body.

Italian POW being escorted ...

Physical training exercises at Mena Camp, Egypt. Wrestling. Troops doing handsprings and back rolls. Sergeant Instructor J Robinson giving the command. Exercises on vaulting horse and weight putting. ...

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 ...

Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...

Exercise at Mombasa, Kenya.

121 Force scale the cliff face, defended by the King's African Rifles. Lieutenant-Colonel M M Alston-Roberts-West is commanding the 2nd ...

First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...

Compilation covers the Japanese raid on Ceylon and occupation scenes on Guam and Wake Island in the Pacific.

Carrier force at sea. Mitsubishi A6M2 is pushed on deck. Japanese pilots on board an aircraft carrier ...

Compilation uses stock shot material to cover sinking of British Force Z off Malaya and actuality of airborne capture of Celebes and air attack on Allied fleet off Java.

Main title reads "Naval warfare off Malaya. ...

Compilation shows the Japanese attack on and occupation of New Guinea, the bombing of Darwin, the occupation of the Andaman Islands and the carrier action off Colombo.

"Capture of New Guinea". Japanese task force ...

I. Long shots of explosions and a fire in a paddy field, filmed from behind some trees. Another view over paddy fields panning past a set of football goal posts.

II. Atmospheric, semi-silhouette dawn shots by the lake at Meiktila, showing ...