Scenes include work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Scenes include work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Various sporting scenes - tennis, sailing, an African sports event with colonial spectators. Includes sack race, bicycle race, women in running race carrying pots on heads.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter ...
Amateur footage of a journey through China and a visit to Hong Kong.
Rickshaws. Harbour scenes in Hong Kong (?). High level shot of harbour. A Chinese family. Street procession. Harbour scenes, junks, sounding for depth. Up river scenes. Rural ...
INTEREST. The royal residence on Bolghotty Island and the town life and buildings in Cochin, India.
ACTUALITY. Scenes at the leper colony supported by the Baptist Missionary Society at Cuttack in Orissa province.
Two men and two women walk through a wide gate above which an arch bears the sign "Cuttack Leper Asylum 1919" and a banner reads "We ...
New high level road bridge. English lady unpacks her picnic. Busy road with petrol filling station. Carts drawn by heavy oxen. Wells being worked by oxen. Sringer town with its river and river traffic. Kashmir Lakes and pony ...
Passenger life on board ocean liner. Ships wrecked by typhoon? Biplanes making passes at ocean liner. Bombay busy city traffic scenes. 'The Gateway to India'. 'The Taj Mahal Hotel'. Street cavalcade of a Royal Visit?
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Railway station exit at Peshawar. Shop fronts of quiet rural town with close up of the names of tradespeople. Centre of Peshawar with busy narrow streets and bazaars. RAF 'Walrus' seaplane at rural airfield. Wrestling match ...
Journey by car up mountainous roads to Simla through border post. General views of Simla town centre with its buildings and busy street life. British couple go riding in the hills around the town. British military wedding at ...
India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan. Also includes scenes of Indian Army in the field, ...
Delhi War Memorial
Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya.
Military biplanes in flight.
Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya ...
Water polo match in crowded open air lido.
RAF servicemen taking part in football match in winter at altitude in front of beer-drinking spectators.
Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air ...
Voyage on cargo ship along coast of Burma and Malaya to Singapore. Stops
in the cities of Rangoom (Docks, Buddhist Temples, City centre and Zoo) and Kuala Lumpur. Visits to the interior. Holiday hotels.Rubber Plantation ...
Public buildings of Lutyens New Delhi. Street scenes in Old Delhi. Street stalls and pottery shop. Street Dancers. Brtish military officer's residence. Visiting peddlers witih their wares. Visiting musicians. Close study of the ...
Railway journney. Busy station scenes. Buildings of Lutyens, New Delhi.
Indian horse show display. The waters off Bombay docks with sailing dhows. RAF launch with crew and naval ships at anchor. Sunderland Flying boat of ...
Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.
Fox hunting, domestic, ceremonial and countryside.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician Tam Dalyell, during their service in the Empire. Lt.- ...
Indian sea rocky coast. Large thatched hut with Sahib and dog. Light house with Indian on camel. Dusserah at Rewa. Prince on elelphant taking part in parade with Indain troops, mounted lancers and marching band. Military parade at ...
Camel riding. Local women drawing water from well and carrying it home. Bullock carts and their drivers. Englishman plays with his dog on seaside beach near thatched hut.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by ...
Ahmadzar (North West Frontier?): Constuction of Dam by labouring gangs. Bullock teams and labourers. British man and woman on site. Band of local musicians.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & ...
North West Frontier. Local tribesmen. Defensive town walls. Market or Bazaar outside the high walls of fortified border town. Camel carrying timber load. Race course meeting. Memsahib plays with dogs in grounds of residence.
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Holy Men/Beggars set up begging bowls watched by Mensahib. Mountain fishing expedition by Memsahib and Sahib. Donkey carrying large paddle like load. Large group of standing Sahibs hold planning meeting in mountains.
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