The Use of the Official Film in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, 1957–1973, and the Role of the United Kingdom Information Services, British Information Services, British Council and Hong Kong Government Information Services (with Ka Yee Teresa Ho)

Abstract

As independence came to Malaya and Singapore, governing institutions of the British state, and their associated information organs, were forced to withdraw from the scene. In the post-colonial situation, institutions such as the British Information Services, United Kingdom Information Services and the British Council then took up the use of the official British film. In Hong Kong, which did not become independence, the Government Information Services and British Council also took up that use. This chapter explores these developments, and how the use of the British film evolved from the late colonial to post-colonial period in the region.

Ka Yee Teresa Ho was a research assistant on this project who carried out much of the primary archive research for this chapter. I would therefore like to cite her here. She did not, however, write any part or section of this chapter.