I. 'INDIA'S YOUNGEST V.C.' General Claude Auchinleck presents the Victoria Cross (V.C.) to Sepoy Kamal Ram of the 8th Punjab Regiment at Lahore. Kamal Ram, the youngest recipient of the V.C., is carried shoulder high by his regimental comrades. Kamal ...
I. 'ROCKET-FIRING PROJECTILES.' Footage taken in the interior of a British armaments factory highlights the various production steps in the manufacture of 60-lb 3-inch rocket projectiles (RP) for aircraft. Female factory workers fill RP casings with ...
I. 'THE KING IN HOLLAND.' King George VI chats to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Commander 21st Army Group) and Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst (Commander 38 Group, RAF) on his arrival in Holland. The King inspects units of a British Armoured ...
I. 'WESTERN FRONT.' A Royal Navy (RN) rocket-firing landing craft (LCT-R) fires ripple-salvos at German positions on Walcheren Island in support of the Anglo-Canadian operation to clear the islands of enemy troops and open up the Scheldt Estuary to ...
I. 'BURMA.' British Fourteenth Army infantry patrol the jungle on the Arakan Front armed with Lee-Enfield Mk III .303-inch rifles. Indian troops lead a mule train over very rough ground. Heavy rainfall lashes a British tented encampment as troops ...
I. "Heiress to the throne." Princess Elizabeth, now aged 18, visits the National Sea Scout Exhibition wearing the uniform of a Sea Ranger.
II. "Tito partisans train in Malta." Wounded Yugoslav partisans, including girls, convalesce at a special ...
I. "Nazis jittery, say returned prisoners." Liner with 638 repatriated prisoners on board docks at Liverpool, where Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey is among those waiting on the quayside. Germany is reported to be in a "bad state of nerves as ...
I. "The other man's job. How Army packs its punch." The packing of spare parts is "a fine art", a vital contribution to the Army's efficiency. Film shows care with which gun spares, shells etc are prepared and packed to withstand transport abroad and ...
At the Red Fort in Delhi, three Indian ...
Three Douglas Dakota transport planes line up alongside the airstrip and the furthest plane taxis forward. Another Dakota taxis forward guided by an airman on the ground. Wavell ...
Easter Action on Bougainville (Solomon Islands).
Opening Titles: "...These grim pictures were taken under fire by an NZNFU Cameraman. We show them to remind you that the troops sweating and dying in the ...
New Zealand newsreel.
I. Men of New Zealand's Pacific Division on Nissan Island parade to receive decorations awarded for recent action: Major Bullen receives DSO, Sergeant Reesby and Corporal Davidson the ...
Film presumably intended for distribution in RAF camp cinemas in India and Burma illustrates the work done by RAF Welfare in arranging the screening ...
Men being served food, with a close-up of food being piled onto a man's plate. Shot of improvised marquee made of parachute. Men eating. Officers (?) arriving.
Man pours beer ...
Footage of a memorial service held in ...
Women of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), known as WAS(B)s, provide a mobile canteen service to British and Indian troops near Shillong, Assam, ...
START 00:00:00 'Mobile Column takes Drivers from the Ranks' . A report on an exercise by the London Taxi Battalion of the Home Guard, showing taxi cabs collecting passengers at a mainline railway terminus (Paddington Station ?), leaving one unhappy ...
Celebrations at the opening of a Yugoslav camp at Binjeema. Major Jerko Juricic reads a speech and the flag is blessed by a Maltese Army padre. It is handed over to a Yugoslav sailor who hoists it. The ...
Injured male and female guerilla fighters are brought to Malta from the Dalmatian coast after being injured fighting for the Allies. Some are very young.
The hospital ...
Opening with a map of the area, the film depicts aspects of village life as local women carry baskets and grind millet. The living quarters of the family are shown, while a compound floor is hardened. There follows a more detailed description of the ...
I. Reichsarbeitsdienst military training camp in Upper Bavaria. RAD soldier stands in snow with unit's emblem of spade at camp where men are roused from barracks by bugle call at start of another day's training. After physical training and ...
I. Track cycling race. Cyclists race round track in indoor stadium (Berlin ?), watched by spectators who include servicemen on leave from the front.
II. Acrobat performs. Acrobat Uno, world famous for his index finger, uses it to balance ...
25 Sep. 1944. Sir Edmond Schreiber lands at Luqa Airfield to take over the appointment of Governor and Commander in Chief. He is greeted by Vice Admiral Hamilton and introduced to the heads of the ...
(The Museum's copy of this film has lost virtually all the soundtrack). A film showing how the arid terrain of the Punjab was 'conquered' by the application of irrigation, agricultural research and hydro-electric power ...
Scenes of the first Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel arriving in Bombay and sightseeing in Delhi.
Troopship approaches dockside in Bombay. ...
I. "Jail Breakers." Scenes from TARGET FOR TONIGHT introduce the story of Group Captain Pickard's last exploit - the Amiens prison raid. A model of the stockade is used to explain details. Two Mosquito Squadrons take off. Aerial sequences are ...
I. "Ploesti." A survey of the policy of Bulgaria's King Boris III towards Fascism (earlier film of Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Filov visiting Berchtesgaden and German mounted troops entering Sofia), with reference to Allied plans to bomb Rumanian oil- ...
I. "The Lorraine Squadron." 342 Squadron prepare their Boston aircraft and carry out a raid on a power station near Paris. (Personnel are French volunteers).
II. "News Digest." a. King and Queen visit Air Chief Marshal Harris at Bomber Command. ...
I. "Returned with Compliments." Routine of an air attack (by Bostons) on German Factories in France. One plane makes a crash-landing.
II. "News Digest." a. Disposal of unexploded 'butterfly' bomb, on forward landing strip in Italy. b. India: ...
I. "Pacific Front." Churchill stresses importance of the Pacific Front. Japanese Film of their Forces advancing - they are "used to dirt and filth," and they maltreat their animals - but now they are hard-pressed from all sides. a. India: Spitfires ...
Army Documentary film on the campaigns against Japanese forces in Papua New Guinea from 1942 to 1944.
Major General R H Dewing introduces the film, giving a brief overview of the initial stages of the conflict in the ...
Documentary compilation explains the strategy behind the advance of Allied forces from Calabria to Rome and shows the major events of the campaign.
Entry into Rome on June 4 by US and ...
START 10:00:00 Scenes at a coming-of-age ceremony for young Masai males (a continuation of the colour film scenes in AYY 1179). Watched by other members of their clan, young warriors armed with spears perform the 'adumu' or jumping dance. The ...
How the Allied troops of Paiforce (Persia and Iraq Force), created in 1942, carried Allied supplies overland to Russia from the Persian Gulf.
(Reel 1) In 1942 Russia needed supplies badly. Britain and the US ...
