Amateur film showing forestry work and resin collecting in the United Provinces, India.
Amateur film showing forestry work and resin collecting in the United Provinces, India.
1934 footage of an annual Raj sporting event, the Kadir Cup Meeting. Competitors and visitors travel on elephants to the location of the race for the Hog Hunters Cup, a pig sticking competition. Also: travel by elephant into a town ( ...
INTEREST. Amateur film of India.
People on their way to the market; animals and ox carts (37). Residency grounds and flowers (50). Procession in Jaipur, elephants with decorative howdahs, soldiers, Nagas, elephants in silver embossed china ...
INTEREST. The highlands of Rhodesia.
Credits (37). A map of Southern Rhodesia outlining the Eastern Districts (55). Beira: over shots of the harbour and docks, commentary gives a brief outline of the town's origins and development ...
Amateur film. Shots of wild Markhor and bison; walking tour and expedition.
Amateur film. Features scenes from a 1934-1935 tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
No titles. In Manipur State, MS the filmmaker G.P. Stewart, dressed in a safari suit and topi hat, seated on the ground talking to ...
Scenes in Udaipur: feeding wild pigs; watering the state elephants; a fight between a wild boar and a tiger. Map of India indicating the position of Udaipur. Every night a keeper calls to and distributes grain to the wild pigs which ...
TRAVELOGUE. Views of Colombo harbour; Tamils unloading of boats; Hindus, Buddhists and Moslems working together; bustling town streets; open air market; a train journey through Mount Lavinia's coconut palms; catamaran fishing boats; Dutch built canals; ...
Amatuer scenes on the journey from Nairobi to Britain via Mombassa, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Madeira taken by Daniel Broad British Trade Commissioner, Kenya 1934-1944.
Various scenes shot in the Kenyan countryside and Nairobi by Daniel Broad, British Commissioner in Kenya 1934-1944.
Scenes in Kenyan countryside shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissioner, Kenya 1934-1944. Nakuru - Europeans looking at plants. Kisumu plains, Europenas in a car. Shots of Molo town and H.M. Trade Commissiones building. Thika Falls ...
The Xhosa tribe.
Daulatabad caves and Dehli. 1933/4. Military parades. People suffering from a skin disease? Nomads dancing. Train. Man climbing palm tree. Travelling along railway tracks by bogie. Daulatabad caves. Dehli - Red Fort. Agra - Tak ...
The island of Malta and particularly Valetta.
The film opens with a map showing the position of the island, and then shows the harbour and some of the shipping. This is followed by views of Valetta, with its battlements and streets, ...
Amateur film with titles shot by Lieutenant Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry records various military ceremonial and naval scenes between 1930 and 1934.
Voyage out to Malta in 1930 on SS Kaiser-i- ...
The tea plantations of Ceylon.
17th century map of Ceylon. Commentary states that the island has been known to traders for many centuries. Shots of interior forests. Footage of Buddhist temples and statues, many in ruins: 'The dry climate of the ...
Amateur footage of scenes in and around Nairobi shot by Daniel Broad, British Trade Commissiner, Kenya 1934-1935. A house, the Salisbury Hotel, the baths inside with white people swimming. Nairobi bazaars and street scenes. A Christmas ...
Everyday life in Ceylon, with special emphasis on the fishing industry.
Title card: 'Negombo Coast'. Archaic map of south east Asia, then a focus on Ceylon on the same map; commentary explains that 'Ceylon lies just off the most ...
(Col) Two young teenage girls pose with colourful parrot type birds on their fingers, also look at flowers and garden at the Gun Carriage Factory estate, Jubbulpore 1940. (B/W) Group of young children of various ages in their best clothes at a Children ...
Amateur film, presumably shot by an officer of the East or South Lancashire Regiment serving in the arid north of India, records scenes of native life, British Army enjoying sports (cricket, swimming, polo), military parade, demonstration of hand ...
Travelogue of Southern Africa: the Transvaal, Pretoria, Johannesburg mines, Rhodesia, Kimberley diamond mines, Buffalo river, Port Elizabeth, an ostrich farm, Kango caves, and Cape Town.
The Duke of Kent's tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in 1934.
Hodgkinson family scenes in Malaysia and Burma.
(B&W) Malayan maid and Ditty (wife of Colonel Hodgkinson) holding little boy's hand (Ooty, son of Colonel Hodgkinson), ...