82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north east of the village of Tamandu, Arakan, Burma ...

I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to six major cities of India. II. "SIR SULTAN AHMED RESIGNS FROM INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING". On the eve of ...

The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at Kano.

A young African girl is crowned the May Queen in the village of Stanion, Northamptonshire.

The film opens with shots of traditional rural life - the landscape, cows, horses ploughing the fields, blossoming trees, sheep and finally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force are seen on manoeuvres in Ceylon, the Gold Coast regiment are shown building a ferry, and the ...

For detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: The KING WITH THE CANADIANS DESPATCHES FROM TUNISIA FUNERAL OF A V.C. NORTH AFRICAN FRONT ADAMU SOKOTA JOINS UP LORD LOUIS AT SANDHURST

A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George VI.

The King is "a symbol of unity" who links the Empire in "geography, history and destiny" and also an ...

An African hospital.

The film covers the reception and treatment of a street accident case, with a glance at the X-ray and outpatients departments, in a Lagos hospital.

1945: 1) Maize, guinea corn (sorghum) growing; 2) native gathering with dancing; (young men being beaten - Sharo Festival); 3) building a house; 4) African medicine man, dancing on Jos plateau, Nigeria, or eastward; 5) possibly an agricultural ...