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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large ...
A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He ...
Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the ...
The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its ...
INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the ...
Amateur film. Funeral procession of 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bengal 1937-9, in Calcutta in 1939.
Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, GUNGA DIN is a fictional tale set in British India during the Thuggee ...
Ship's voyage from Aden, through the Suez Canal to Egypt. Street traders and traders seeking business from the ship. Snake ...
A welcoming committee of dignitaries for the arrival of a train. A procession through the streets with elephants. The groom ...
Depicts medical work of the London Missionary Society at Jianganj, specifically at the new hospital built by the Society to ...
START 00:00:00 Views filmed inside a drydock (probably the one at Whampoa Dock from 21 to 24 October 1939) showing ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...