The ethnic groups, ceremonies and industries of Malaya.
Rl. 1. BBFC certificate (11). Credits and main title "FIVE FACES". "A film of Malaya made with the cooperation of the governments of the federated Malay states and the Straits ...
Documentary on the history of the British flag.
Plane journeys with stop-overs between Europe and India. Amateur film.
The town of Darjeeling, showing its life and work. Re-edited material from DARJEELING (Secrets of India series).
Censor certificate (18). Main and series title and credit (50). A map of India, Darjeeling is shown ...
Light aeroplanes at Heston aerodrome (75ft).
FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, his past catches up and he goes to prison. Pyke brings up Doubleday's son Charlie Chisholm with his own grandson Willie Pyke ...
Amateur film showing forestry work and resin collecting in the United Provinces, India.
Touring with students in the Dun Forest. Lachiwala bungalow. Variety of transport - motor, camels, bullock-cart. River scenes near Lachiwala, dogs and family in the water. Roorkee December 1932 - forest students build a trestle bridge over a sixty foot ...
"Changa Manga criminal tribes make felling a family affair". Narrow gauge rail/tramway with steam engine pulling trucks with logs. Chichawatni plantation; trenching virgin soil for irrigated plantation. Dalip Singh's car. Half-wrought plough shares ...
Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun - the log pond, saw mills and timber testing workshop. The Silvicultural (forestry) Museum and Botanical Herbarium. Seasoning kiln for controlling and hastening the drying of timber. Experiments of fire damage to ...
Cultivation in Gorakhpur Forest, rearing forest trees along with agricultural crops. Clearing roots. Different stages of crop development. Demonstration forest - measuring bamboos, removing frost covers from nursery seedbeds, measuring trunks in a ' ...
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war campaign against the Sudan uprising.
The Four Feathers was the fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason& ...Four sons revenge their father who was murdered by a munitions conspiracy.
"October 27, 1934 - April 24, 1935" Film begins with an outline map of world, the Thaw's route is traced through Africa. Cairo-Khartoum-Nairobi-Elizabethville-Johannesburg-Cape Town. On board ship in rough seas. Peggy (Thaw) ...
[VHS] "From Cairo to the Cape Part II" "October 27, 1934 - April 24, 1935"
Pans across the African plains and mountains in the distance. Peggy sits on a water buffalo ? just shot, Larry poses next to it with his gun. ...
A record of an expedition from Burma to China. The film includes landscape shots, scenes of agriculture, market and street scenes in Teng Yuch, Chung King, Yenan, and the Kumbun lamasery.
Rl. 1. Animated map of journey. Village life in Burma. ...
Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.
Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. Constantinople, loading of maize. Varna, unloading at the quay. The entrance to the Bosphorus. Quarantine station. ...
Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, harvested and prepared for transport.
Amateur film. Funeral procession of 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bengal 1937-9, in Calcutta in 1939.
The film opens with a map of India, and continues with scenes from Miss Newman's travels beginning with brief shots in Aden. Shots of, and scenes on board the P&O liner SS Rajputana, including the Maharajah of Patiala shooting clay pigeons (?), the ...
"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
DOCUMENTARY.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the mail plane calling at Brunette Downs, Northern Territory, Australia. Aerial shots of the sea, fields and river and the plane in flight "The aeroplane has won for man the freedom of the air" (527). Shots ...
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 ( ...
