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    Edited report of 1st Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles patrolling river by native motor launch, names and photographs of wanted terrorists in briefing room, briefing prior to Wessex helicopter dropping soldiers into jungle clearing, bringing in captured ...

     
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    Squadron Leader Keith Cawdron bids farewell to the villagers of Sindumin as his unit is moved to Labuan prior to return to England.

    Squadron Leader Cawdron plays ball with the local children. A long boat arrives at ...

     
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    TWENTY-FOUR HOURSGreat Britain

    [Compilation tape.] 00.00 Calypso song on war in Anguilla. 03.35 Russian news report (in Russian). 10.28 Censorship Interview - Michael Barratt talks to Dr George Steiner (critic) and Charles Manowitz (producer) about ...

     
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    (Reel 1) After departing Little Aden from Salerno Camp (Coldstream Barracks), Hughes records northwards journey in protected convoy on road to Dhala in Land Rover with anti-roll bars and plated against land mines. Fair-haired guardsman is seventeen ...

     
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    Men of 45 RM Commando are addressed by Major-General Tower before flying out of Khormaksar in RAF Hercules transports.

    Royal Marines file past the camera carrying personal arms and kit. CU of General Tower as he ...

     
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    Dramatised recruitment film for prospective Royal Navy officers.

    1. Prospective recruits (in civvies) are taken onboard HMS Dolphin; sequence focuses on one of the recruits, "Brendon" (a Welshman who gives us his ...

     
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    British television news report interviews Major Vivian Robinson of Second Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles, presently countering Indonesians crossing into Borneo, and shows Wessex helicopter landing Gurkhas in jungle, patrol, radio communications, food, ...

     
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    845 Squadron operates Wessex helicopters against Indonesian guerrillas in Brunei.

    Aerial views from helicopter flying over the jungle. Cut to helicopter now landed by a river - supplies have been landed and are taken ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.

     
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    ADEN 1966

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    The history of Aden and its importance now as a port and oil refinery. Intended for secondary schools.

     
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    ADEN 1967

    THIS WEEK NATIONALGreat Britain

    The violence against the British presence in Aden and the future of the South Arabian Federation. Llew Gardner spoke to the Secretary-General of the South Arabian League in Aden and Robert Kee spoke to Duncan Sandys and ...

     
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    THIS WEEK [ITV/Rediffusion, 1956-68]

    DOCUMENTARY. A report on the political situation in Aden and the role of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Includes an interview with Lt. Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.

    Rediffusion logo (00:04). Opening ...

     
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    Unedited colour film of Royal Marine Commandos in four jeeps and two trucks on patrol in a rocky arid district surrounded by mountains.

    Two Marines sit perched on a cliff while the camera pans towards the mountains ...

     
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    Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound during rough searching of Arab suspects), and of mute rushes of British soldiers on patrol, unarmed, in the peaceful British ...

     
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    British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.

    British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...

     
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    News report on the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on security operations in the Crater district of Aden during the Aden Emergency.

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    Titling includes "A BBC Television Film. Hanford. BBC. D.5607/5608. Hard News. ( ...

     
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    Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Drama set in Kenya. Two American cowboys are recruited by a British rancher to help him in a project involving the capturing and taming of wild animals and by breeding new stock to provide a source of food. The object is to halt the ...

     
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    South Africa

    A look at modern life in several south African countries.

     
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    RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.

    A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...

     
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    Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.

     
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    AIR STRIKE 1965

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    Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.

     
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    AMBUSH 1965

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    'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.

    Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the ...

     
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    ROVING REPORTGreat Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. A report on Anguilla's illegal declaration of independence from the West Indies Associated States.

     
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    ROVING REPORTGreat Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. Scenes following the quelling, by British troops, of the attempted rebellion in Anguilla; a demonstration; British troops on the island; a party given by the Royal Navy; a speech by Ronald Webster.

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary on the choice of the Atlantic island of Ascension as a tracking station for satellites and rockets and its transformation.

    ‘Drab endless vistas of scree’ was Michael Orrom's first impression of ...

     
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    COMPANY OF FIVEGreat Britain

    DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour Exchange.

     
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    Great Britain

    Construction of settlements on the island during the early 1960s.

    Reel 1. The farm on Green mountain. Cows being moved within the farm. View of Sisters Peak from Mountain Road. West Indian steel band and dancing. Power House plant ...

     
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    PARADEGreat Britain

    Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.

     
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    7 DAYSAustralia

    Current affairs report examines Britain's efforts to contain Indonesian guerrilla activity in Borneo and Sarawak (Malaysia), where 1st Battalion 7th Gurkhas are seen on patrol and are interviewed, and raises ...

     
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    Anton-Smith Collection

    Includes shots of Agricultural Officers on tour and various agricultural and fisheries research projects including coffee and groundnuts. These are interspersed with shots of African schoolgirls invited to tea with their Teacher ...

     
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    Anton-Smith Collection

    Agricultural Workers in Northern Rhodesia 1961-62.

    Production / Donor Details: Films shot by Mr Anton-Smith, an Agricultural Officer in Northern Rhodesia (and later Zambia). His wife Anne was a Teacher and later ...

     
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    TREASURE IN MALTA

    Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, ...

     
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    Unedited Rhodesian footage.

    A map pinpointing the location of Rhodesia in the African continent; scenes of black Rhodesians; whites at a polling station; Ian Smith at the Commonwealth Relations office.

     
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    ROVING REPORTGreat Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. Tourist attractions of the Bahamas and the new properties under construction.

     
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    ADVENTUREGreat Britain

    Anthony Smith and cameraman Douglas Botting fly by balloon from Zanzibar to the mainland of Africa.

     
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    BARBADOS 1964

    TONIGHTGreat Britain
     
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    WORLD TOMORROWGreat Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. A report by Bill Grundy and Chris Kelly from Basutoland shortly before it became the independent state of Lesotho on October 4th, 1966.

     
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    Documentary about the Hong Kong Chinese as represented by the Lung family and their deep involvement with ancestral glory, coupled with a dynamic, forward-looking industrial scene.

     
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    WORLD IN ACTIONGreat Britain

    The film looks at the punishment received by Rhodesians and South Africans who talked to World in Action in 'Goodbye Mr. Smith' and 'The dumping grounds'. Some were deported and others jailed.

     
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    Amateur film shot by Captain Peter Goldney of Royal Signals, when seconded to Army Air Corps, 653 Light Aircraft Squadron, Army Air Corps, records service in Aden State between July 1962 and April 1964 during campaign by nationalist forces against ...

     
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    I. Guildhall welcome ceremony for the Queen and Prince Philip on their return from their 3-month tour of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. Among those present are Macmillan, Duncan Sandys, the Lord Mayor of London and Commonwealth representatives. ...

     
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    I. The waters of the Zambezi pour through the floodgates of the Kariba Dam in Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

    II. Belgian Grand Prix takes place in pouring rain: called off after 6 laps. Jim Clark wins; shots of him and Graham Hill.

    III. The ...

     
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    BRITISH CALENDARGreat Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. A record of Jamaica at the time of its independence.

     
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    BRITISH CALENDARGreat Britain

    A record of Trinidad at the time of its independence.

     
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    ROVING REPORTGreat Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. Dr Cheddi Jagan, Prime Minister of British Guiana, talks about the social and racial problems of the colony and its hopes for full independ- ence.

     
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    POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - ADENGB

    I. The departing High Commissioner, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, reviews the Naval task force supporting the British withdrawal. He is accompanied by Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, C-in-C Middle East Command, who is to return ...

     
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    Depicts the building and opening of the London Missionary Society Hospital, Mbereshi, North Rhodesia. Also includes a survey of the work of the hospital and medical work carried out in the district, including the dispensary at Kazembe. LMS mission ...