Documentary filmed and titled by British nature cameraman Cherry Kearton records series of journeys made between 1910 and 1932 to Africa and Asia, as well as Belgian refugee scenes in 1914, spring-wound camera he invented in same year, Lord Roberts ...
"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. ...
Military parade for the celebration of King's Birthday 1933. March past of Indian troops. Military vehicles drive past. 3 cheers by troops. Visit of King of Greece to Chaklala Military Camp in 1935. King's tour of inspection with ...
Naini Tal: an official parade; family shots. departure by train. the journey home by ship via Suez Canal and Gibraltar. Lucinda, the new baby.
Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early ...
Visit to Ireland; scenes at home; the voyage out to India via Port Said and Aden; scenes at Naini Tal, including the George V Silver Jubilee parade;
sailing, and garden scenes at Aligarh.
Production / Donor Details: The ...
Country train journey; preparing for a girl guides' garden party in Allahabad
servants' children's party; leopard shoot in Kheri and Collector's Xmas camp;
picnic at big game shoot; presents distributed to staff at camp; ...
To India by air 1934; Army in India; Wateringbury 1935
Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major Harry Lewis-Barned, who served in the army in India in the 1930s, and by Mr John Lewis-Barned, who served as an Assistant ...
Footage documenting various event surrounding the 1935 restoration of the Ashanti Confederation. (Kumasi city?) Coronation of the Ashantihene or King of kings: Inter title "Ceremony in connection with the restoration of The Ashanti ...
Journey from Liverpool to Takeradi, Gold Coast. Departure of Liner from the landing stage at Liverpool Docks England shot from the ship and showing the details of the landing station with the Liver Buildings in the background. Tugs ...
Colour sequences from reel 1: the Ashantehene ceremony. Crowds at large Durbar Ashanti tribal gathering. The manhandling of the "Golden Stool". The parade through the crowds of those carrying the tribal symbols of Authority. The ...
Ceremonies surrounding the restoration of the Ashanti Confederation 31 January 1935. Substantially repeat Jackson Collection 1.
Production / Donor Details: Donor's grandfather, Sir Francis Walter F Jackson was Chief Commissioner ...
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, ...
Various scenes in and around a girls school on the Niger Delta.
Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and ...
Negative exposed reel of Basden Collection 4
Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and 'Among the Ibo') ...
Intertitles: Back to the wilds - a trip down the Luangwa River.
Trekking home through the bush.
Some of the Bridge 'gang'.
A picnic in Portuguese territory.
Monkeys again.
Travelling de Luxe.
The ...
AMATEUR. Amateur film showing Government buildings in Delhi, a village in the Punjab, the Hassan Abdal cattle fair, camels and the Khyber Pass. Peshawar City, Masuds of the Frontier Zone Rifles in tribal dance, the village of Kabal on the Indus.
Filmed from the front of a car. English men and women on horses chase a pig with spears. Pig stuck with spears.
Amateur film. Manipuri hockey, wrestling and dancing at Imphal including Kabui Nagas dance and Angami Nagas performed by either Maoor Maram villagers to celebrate King George V's Silver Jubilee.
Amateur footage of scenes of Singapore and district including harbour and street scenes.
Views of Beas River. Silver jubilee celebrations. Schoolboys' gym exhibition with crowds watching. "Capt. H. H. Raja Sir Jogindar Sen, K.C.S.I" holds durbar and parade - arrival in Rolls Royce, troops, parade grounds. Garden party at palace, palace ...
Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
"The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The Residency, Mastung". Panned shot right to left across rubble of the Residency, turbaned Indian visible in remaining ...
Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India. The road to Amber; women at a well; the market; the Palace; the Bazaar; bathing; well with bullocks drawing water; camel and donkey; women spinning; the Craster family at Jotwara; polo at Jaipur, ...
Resettlement of Palestine by Jews; sudden death in automobile accidents; prohibition; trans Pacific airways.
Survey of the commercial relationship and interchange of goods between Great Bri tain and the Dominions. Construction of great new graving dock at Southampton a nd loading and unloading of cargoes.
INTEREST. Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.
Historical and traditional sacred sites in the Holy Land.
Amateur footage of Sikkim, India. Including the gardens of the British officials and the officials themselves. Preparations for a trip. A man filming with a 16mm Bolex camera. A variety of local officials. Presentation of the white scarves ceremony. ...
Salt mine at Drang. Monitor lizard captured in the compound. Cricket in camp at Panjain, family and Indian children playing together. Dosehra (Hindu festival to mark the victory of Krishna over Rawan) with procession, troops and officials in cars. ...
Amateur film showing traditional dances and rituals and a gigantic flower float in Manipur, Assam.
Descriptive of the life on the island, as lived by the present-day survivors of the mutineers from HMS Bounty.
General views of Ceylon, its people and the production of tea.
The production of rubber.
The preparation of nurseries. Budgrafting at one year old, extracting, trimming and inserting a bud patch. The budgraft six months later. Tapping a young tree. Bringing in and checking latex, coagulating latex, machining ...
Amateur film. Monkey dance in Kuki village in Manipur State Assam.
Amateur film of Sir John Anderson (Governor of Bengal) to the Chittagong Hills (present-day Bangladesh).
Interest. Settlers in Palestine search for water and having done so, find prosperity.
Credits (146). Pair of legs walk along a railway track and along a dirt track through rocks and desert land; dust is blown up around him and he fords streams ...
THE DUKE IN NEW ZEALAND. HRH enters port aboard warship "Australia" with N.Z. ships escorting. (194) The Duke's tour continues with a visit to the races. (114) THE MAHARAJAH OF NEPAL VISITS DELHI. (95) "MACON" DISASTER. Shots of the airship before the ...
Shanghai harbour and river frontage with shipping traffic. Peking, The Forbidden City. River approach to Shanghai. Hong Kong Primary School sports day at The Peak. Atmospheric street scenes. The harbour and bay busy with wide ...
Goose keeping and cattle culture in the New Territories. Stormy weather in Hong Kong harbour with approaching typhoon. 1935 Jubilee celebration with carnival processions. Military marching band. Chung Chow. Very rough weather in the ...
Hong Kong harbour. Stormy weather with typhoon approach. Singapore zoo. Shipboard family life on board the liner Rawalpindi. Aden port and town. Marina Hotel. Pyramids in Egypt. Cairo city scenes. Port Said harbour front.
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Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.
Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 ...
Hong Kong harbour. Ferry and harbour traffic. Tour of the busy centre of the Colony. Sailing junks under sail and tied up in the basin of the harbour. Approach to the river port of Shanghai as seen from an arriving ocean liner. ...
Film taken in Malta by Lord Mountbatten on Noel Coward's camera.
The film shows Lady Mountbatten, the Honourable Mrs Richard Morton (afterwards Lady Grantley), Junie Heywood-Lonsdale and possibly Desmond Dryer. Noel ...
A general outline of officer training at RAF Cranwell which culminates in an appeal for recruits.
150 pupils, including citizens from the Empire (a turbaned Indian is visible in a parade), undergo a two-year training ...
The wedding of Phyllis and John Ticehurst in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 October 1936; the first wedding to be filmed in the colony.
The tea-gardens of India and Ceylon.
Aerial view of countryside around the tea-gardens (54). The Kangchenjunga mountain railway is followed on its journey in the Himalayas. Views of the tea-gardens with waterfalls (118). A ...
A MEDICINE WOMAN AND HER ASSISTANT, FROM THE KUANYAMA TRIBE, INITIATE TWO FURTHER MEDICINE WOMEN>
INTEREST. The film shows a practical experiment to establish a new African settlement in tsetse-fly country.
The film opens with a local looking at a sign post 'To Kingolwira'. The African sets off in this direction and comes to a ...
