Informal sequences with The Resident and guests in garden of Mysore Residency with foot balling Bishop. The Resident makes tour of inspection up country meets local guard of honour.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films ...
Bird shooting with large mixed British party and Indian retainers in flat country side. Display of kill. Shooters take a drink break. Close scrutiny of members of party. Steam rig drilling for oil in countryside near shooting party. ...
Scenes in the life of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. Film shows Indian Army (Bengal Sappers & Miners) life: training: drill and bayonet practice; marching; bridge building (good shots); constructing a drystone building; shots of ...
Various views of life in India: street scenes, camping, acrobatics, elephant ride and rural life. Includes an excellent sequence of fishermen beating the water with long poles and retreiving the catch with scoop nets while balancing on ...
Roorkie?: Engineering Training School (could be Knox School?) and Engineering Corps recruit training and regimental sports:
Playing polo. Gymkhana with trick and formation riding, various jolly games, band playing. Swimming in ...
Views in Uttar Pradesh including Roorkee and Hardwar: rivers, countryside, buildings and town scenes. Also houses, bungalows and gardens built for the British.
Production / Donor Details: This collection was shot by Brigadier Cecil ...
Sea voyage from Bombay(?) in the P&O liner Stratheden: embarkation and safety drills; off-loading and oiling at Aden(?); passage along the Suez canal; busy scenes at Port Said including good scenes of the 'Bum boats', and arrival in ...
A record of a journey made by motor car from Iran, across desert country and alo ng the mountainous roads of Central Asia to India.
Incomplete (professionally made?) record of a trip to Brazil by the Graf Zeppelin airship and thence to Chile via Argentina by aeroplane.
The film, taken mostly on board the airship, shows its progress from the ...
Empire Day celebrations in Hyde Park (71ft).
Light aeroplanes at Heston aerodrome (75ft).
"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden party setting, greeting people and being greeted. 2. Gandhi getting out of a car in an Indian street. 3. A close-up of ...
We see many views of the rock from different aspects. Views of the town show public buildings, street scenes and items of historical interest. The village of Catalan Bay, St. Michael's Cave, tennis, sailing etc., and evidence of the army and navy ...
AMATEUR. Film shot around the Gold Coast, with views from a train and a car, and shots of a small animal (a young deer of some kind) and a snake. There are also scenes of village life and a market, and pets(?).
Castries, St Lucia; Georgetown, Grenada; Windward Islands
Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.
Filmed by an officer in one of the Gurkha regiments. Views over the Sylhet Plain taken in the Khasi Hills. The ropeway by ...
Domestic family scenes (home and seaside) in the U.K. in the 1930s. London traffic in late 1930s. Ship ocean voyage. Gibraltar from the sea. Shot of ship 'Queen Elizabeth'.
Production / Donor Details: The collection belonged to ...
Ship passage to India. Arrival. Train journey inland. Army manoeuvres with camel troops, parade sequence. Aftermath of big train wreck and the subsequent recovery operations. Formal opening of railway line by Maharaja, inspection of ...
Travel shots of journey through Bengal(?) province showing river scapes /river traffic. Europeans taking part in a fun sports open air event in front of Indian soldiers. Detailed views of the new city of New Delhi and contrasts with ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where the cocoa pods are plucked from the tree trunks, the beans extracted and sorted by natives. Commentary explains ...
Four reels on VHS: reel 1. Packing up car for journey to Sirenugar(sic)...the poplar tree approach...Indians sawing up logs...picnic...Views of Gulmerg. Reel
2: Views of Srenugar(sic)...Guest House No.3...Indian Village... ...
Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.
Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.
Small Indian boy with his snake charming act.
Bombay with street market and attention to roadside shrine.
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Port Said harbour. Royal Navy sailors visiting the Sphinx. The anchorage at Aden. Bombay bay and harbour. Race course with race meeting. Visit to the historic sites of Old Delhi. Indian rural railway station.
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Race horse meeting at the Bombay Race Course(?). Formal grand wedding or ceremony at a Trade Fair? Procession with Indian Boy Scouts providing a marching band.
Horse show in the grounds outside the Red Fort of Delhi with ...
"IN INDIA TODAY: GANDHI : STORMY PETREL OF INDIAN POLITICS; COMPLETES 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' MARCH TO BREAK SALT LAWS, UNINTERFERED WITH BY AUTHORITIES" Shots of the procession, including (30-41, 56-76 & 88-98) shots of Gandhi ( ...
Delhi fort - Lahore gate and Delhi gate, black marble elephants. Pleasure gardens of Moghal emperors; hall of audience. Friday prayers at Jumma Masjid, huge crowds in ornate square. Ferozabad, the 6th city of old Delhi, views around the ruins. Humayun ...
Winter quarters at Simla. The family at home - Craigdhu playground with crawling lessons for a baby (Sheila Mary?). Skating at Blessington - the pond; "S.G. does her piece" - skating moves; leapfrog. Winter at Simla 1929, Sheila at Christchurch Lodge; ...
Views of Himalayan snow peaks. Barang village. Family at Shoang camp. Baspa cliffs. 'Coolies' at the Hiranghati camp. Rhododendrons and cairns on pass. Sarhan village. Paunda roadside shelter under an enormous old elk tree. Loading mules at Rupi. ...
Bombay. Davis Road, Lahore. Canal bank, Lahore. Armistice Day Parade with ex-service men. Bathing the dog. Christmas Day in Lawrence Gardens. Lahore bazaar traffic. Small boy dancing to gramophone recording. Loading camels. Padre Gorrie's wedding - ...
"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of Royal procession along Aldwych (0.09). Ground view of arrival of royal landau at India House. King George ...
Big game hunting in India.
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo (1933-1938) covers British Imperial Airways Hannibal, construction of dam at Jabal Awliya, White Nile, Sudan ...
Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.
Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box in which film came to Archive, but not known if this relates to this particular film.
Footage of wildlife at an African waterhole, and of a tree hide.
Gold Coast: "The Residency Grounds, Kumasi." The ornamental park grounds of the Official Residency at Kumasi with its tall trees and lawns. The Mansion house and its gardens. The small group of soldiers of the Official Guard on duty ...
Atlantic Coast with township fronting beach. Facade of Dutch colonial 18th Century town house of three stories being visited by mixed party of British colonials. Inscription tablet in Dutch on wall of house shown in close up and ...
Meeting of the tribes. Some African attendees dressed in European clothes. Tribal chiefs with their ceremonial umbrellas. Children are carried on the heads of their fathers. Tribal images, small statues of Gods are shown and inspected ...
British colonial officer with bus / lorry vehicle onto which local workmen get. Market at jungle village. Communal cooking fires in the communal area long narrow jungle village. British colonial policeman wearing black armband. ...
Gold Coast. The bride, Miss Scanlan dressed in her white wedding outfit and carrying bridal bouquet poses for formal pictures on balcony of house before posing again at the entrance to the Residency where she is saluted by one of the ...
Sports Day. Tamale? Football field with crowds of African spectators on the touchline. Small boys play the game, which requires them to eat an apple suspended from a string without using their hands or arms. Continuous procession of ...
Gold Coast. Lodge holiday retreat deep in hilly country overlooking lake. Young British lady poses in front of Official car, which has Union Jack flying from its bonnet. British official demonstrates the use of Reflex camera to ...
Gold Coast. The grounds of Official Residence. Sentry Box at the main entrance with 3 African sentries standing side by side armed with rifles which are at the slope. Tour of the very extensive gardens and grounds concentrating on the ...
Gold Coast British lady dressed in straw summer hat, white belt, and divided skirt demonstrates her tennis shots for the camera on deserted tennis court in the grounds of Residency? An African woman with her child in her arms meets ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories Cattle fair on flat open ground on outskirts of village. British colonial officer in Auctioneer's hutch with roof undertakes Auction before crowd of local people. Other British colonial officers on ...
Gold Coast. Northern Territories. Inter Title "Mbofraturo. Bread making." On a large table in the courtyard outside back door of house 3 young girls (2 of whom are African, the third is light skinned and looks European) make bread. ...
