GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDENS (WITH PEOPLE)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6222).

Synopsis

An Indain man and two women sitting on a bench in the grounds of Government House, New Delhi. A man walks towards the camera carrying a large basket of flowers on his head. A large group of servants. A group (British), including Ditty Hodgkinson (wife of Colonel Hodgkinson), walk through the garden. Views of the gardens. Ditty and Edythe? with a dog next to the water. Another shot of the servants. A man in a pith helmet inspects the flowers on a large climbing shrub. An Indian man tends a bed of yellow flowers. The man in the pith helmet picks a flower from the climbing shrub. Shots of a variety of flowers in the garden.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome

Technical: original/copy status of film not marked

Edythe also appears in MGH 6224. Don't know who she is.

Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.

 

Titles

  • GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDENS (WITH PEOPLE) (Allocated)
Series Title:
COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILM
 

Technical Data

Year:
1947
Running Time:
1 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
Colour
Sound:
Silent
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
cameraman
Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)