Animated film sponsored by the Empire Marketing Board, it is designed to persuade British consumers that 'Empire Buying Begins at Home'. It promotes British grown and produced products, and provides statistics about the contribution such sales make to ...

Calcutta - King George's dock under construction. Indians work on the dock while British engineers oversee the progress. The engineers line up for the camera, and water is let back into the port after a phase of construction is ...

Deserted city of Fatehpur, shots around and about including white marble tomb of Salim Christi. Sir Malcolm Hailey, the governor of the Punjab, at Chini. Repairing road for the visit. Carving out stone to widen cliff-top road. Celebration at Pangi ...

Amateur film showing Kashmir, Kabul, a yogi hanging over a fire, the Shan States and leg rowers on Inle lake.

No titles. A potter at work in Kashmir (42). Street scene in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan (64). An entrance gate to ...

Khyber Pass: Mule train/camel train/outpost (125). Kashmir: Dal lake (near Srinagar). Agra: cattle market, Taj Mahal, market scenes, Red Fort (240 feet).

Swimmers in Bermuda demonstrate diving and formation swimming.

TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Malaya.

No main title. "A prominent land-mark - Government House, residence of the Governor of the Strait Settlements" (4). LS Government House in Singapore (?) (18). "The railway-traveller through Malaya ...

Amateur film of New Delhi. Street scenes. Fountains. Show jumping and horse artillery on parade. AV from a plane. Interior of plane. Personal film of children on ski-ing slopes and playing in wood. Cricket at Batyana High School.

Travelogue. Scenes in Northern Nigeria. A compilation of footage taken from other films (see note at end of synopsis).

No titles. Africans (Fulani?) dancing in a close circular group carrying clubs and wearing skins (16). A large ...

Travelgoue. Scenes in Peshawar, the village of Kabla, the Khyber Pass and Lundi Kotal.

Map of the world, CU of the position of India (48-78). A town (84). Map showing Afghanistan and the North West Frontier province (105-134). Pan ...

Travelogue of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, highlighting the contrast between old and new methods. The film shows the development of the railways, bridges and modern machinery, while also showing the traditional methods of local ...

Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.

After briefly outlining the history of the Northern Territories, the film shows the installation of a new chief in ...

The life of the people of the Naga Hills, Assam, including sports activities and tribal ceremonies, presented within a fictional framework.

Rl. 1. Map showing location of Naga Hills (37). The chief and some young men of Kiyesha, a Sema village, ...

First section of a floating dock leaves Newcastle for Singapore (44ft).

How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.

The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as the intertitles provide facts about the palms. Africans are shown climbing the trees - 'the natives climb the palms by ...

A broad look at African life and missionary work, contrasting old and new ways and Europeans and native Africans.

Amateur footage of a polo match at Patna and a leopard hunt. View of elephants with hunters in howdahs. Line of beaters and the elephants surrounding the leopard. The dead leopard. The group at the end of the shoot.

Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.

AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, Port Sudan, Aden, Fort Jesus, Mombassa and Nairobi. There are also images of Sudanese natives and views of the P&O SS Mooltan. The ...

A record of a safari in East Africa.

The 5th Battalion King's East African Rifles returning from a route march. Government House, Nairobi including Lt. Col. Sir Edward Grigg, the Governor. The members of the expedition, the ...

AMATEUR record of an expedition in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film concetrates on the baiting of a pride of Lions with a carcass, towed across a savannah from the back of a vehicle, whereupon is mounted the camera itself ...

The love story of the 17th century princess who became Empress Mumtaz Mahal, whose tomb is the Taj Mahal.

Miscellaneous amateur film of India. Includes scenes in Simla - Annandale mountains. The Mall Viceregal Lodge. Local acrobat. Nagpanchuri wrestling competition. Sambhur hunting at Shikar. Elephant beaters. The arrival of the Maharajah Kumar. Guard of ...

Newsreel item on air travel to India.