INDIA RAJGAT COCHIN REFUGEES
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6236).
Synopsis
Mahatma Gandhi's funeral and refugees.
Gandhi's funeral procession, mourners dressed in white. A man at the front of the procession appears to be annoyed at the camera being there. People reach to touch the urn, Indian flags hang from the train behind. Mourners sit next to a mass of yellow and orange flowers. Crowds at a refugee camp (Punjab). Lady Mountbatten in Red Cross uniform talks with people at the camp. A shot of Lady Mountbatten's cars parked at the camp. Close-up of Lady Mountbatten talking to people.
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome
Technical: film marked "original"
Similar scenes of the funeral procession and urn at the station in MGH 6247
Similar scenes of Lady Mountbatten at the refugee camp also on MGH 6233 and MGH 6257
Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.
Titles
- INDIA RAJGAT COCHIN REFUGEES (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)
