St Paul's cathedral, Calcutta. An Indian man and woman and three British children walk through the cathedral gate towards the camera. Three Indian men pose in front of a door, they walk away to reveal a brass sign 'Saturday Club Ltd' (Calcutta). They open the door. Two British women walk out of the door. A yellow Rolls Royce pulls up outside the club, waits a while then drives away. A small boy walks past playing with a toy aeroplane, two British women walk out of the club. Two women walk into the club, two others leave. Two British women walk through a graveyard (St John's church, Calcutta) looking at the inscriptions on large tombs, a close-up of them reading 'Rose Aylmer' by Walter Savage Landor. They go through a gate and walk towards the large octagonal mausoleum of Job Charnock (the founder of Calcutta), they go inside. A shot of the white obelisk, monument to the Black Hole of Calcutta. One of the women reads the inscription on the monument.

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

Not sure if Warren Hastings' tomb (first Governor-General of India) does appear in this film? LJT

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