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Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the great heritage of India is the rich variety of her musical instruments. There are more than 500 different ...
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MYSORE 1940
A record of the Thaw Asiatic Expedition. The Maharajah of Mysore and the Prime Minister. The Krishna Raja Saga Dam and the Gometswara sanctuary.
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Amateur film shot by British Army Doctor showing a variety of scenes in and around Mysore (Southern India) including festival scenes in Mysore (Dussehra), Mysore Zoo.
Colour: train along tracks; sign - "Mysore Sandal Soap"; Cauvery Falls B&W: ...
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Naga refugees shown tending a church garden and graveyard (including British graves), and rebuilding their shattered village of Ukhrul in Manipur, ...
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A street busy with pedestrians and animal-drawn carts is filmed from a static camera position. Many of the Indian men are naked to the waist, some carry loads, several men and women carry umbrellas against the sun. No Europeans are visible. To the left ...
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NEW DELHI 1928
Great BritainAmateur film of New Delhi. Street scenes. Fountains. Show jumping and horse artillery on parade. AV from a plane. Interior of plane. Personal film of children on ski-ing slopes and playing in wood. Cricket at Batyana High School.
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Great Britain
The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.
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NORTH WEST FRONTIER 1959
Great BritainSet in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of tension between the Moslems and Hindus. A rebel Moslem faction is seeking to kill the six year old son of the ruling Hindu ...
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NORTH WEST FRONTIER 1928
Great BritainTravelgoue. Scenes in Peshawar, the village of Kabla, the Khyber Pass and Lundi Kotal.
Map of the world, CU of the position of India (48-78). A town (84). Map showing Afghanistan and the North West Frontier province (105-134). Pan ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet officers of Force 136 (Special Operations ...
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GAUMONT GRAPHICGreat Britain
Main Title. "THE IRREPRESSIBLE MR LEVINE, AMERICA'S MILLIONAIRE AMATEUR AIRMAN 'TAKES OFF' FROM CRANWELL WITH BRITISH PILOT - CAPT HINCHCLIFFE". Close shots of the pilot and passenger; shots of the aeroplane taking off and ...
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OLD BARAK 1947
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A fishing trip by canoe on the River Barak (?): Indian porters on a bridge, scenes from the canoe (38). A European in shorts and topi stand by a fish held up by an ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade proceed from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma up the Thanzit River.
Indian troops sit on the deck of ...
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ONE FAMILY 1930
Great BritainA London schoolboy dreams he visits Buckingham Palace, where he makes the King's Christmas pudding from ingredients collected from different parts of the British Empire.
A boy washes and gets ready for school, noting over breakfast ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Variety of scenes of an advance by 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, near Mount Popa (approximately 40 miles west of Meiktila, Burma) showing ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
After nationalist disturbances close the roads to Saigon, capital of French Indo-China, a convoy named 'Operation Saltmeat' is mounted from Phnom Penh ( ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part of Operation Zipper.
Troops making their way ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
With the surrender of Japan, troops of 23rd Indian Division mount an amphibious landing near Port Dickson on the Malayan coast, as part of Operation ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
British tanks and troops move forward to capture a Japanese position just north of Mandalay, Burma.
19th Indian Division take a Japanese ...
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GB
Semi-contemporary material of the first British forces in France and the creation of the massed armies in Britain at the start of the First World War, 1914-1916.
Arrival of the Indian Corps in Marseilles in September ...
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Great Britain
ACTUALITY. A record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour, 1921-22.
Rl.1 Arrival of the Prince at Bombay on November 17th, 1921 and reading a message from the King; the King's message is included in the sub-titles preceding each shot ...
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Great Britain
Main title. "The Durbar Procession". The procession moves along a road in open countryside lined with troops (65). A distant shot of a huge arena (77). Aerial view of the arrival of King George V and Queen Mary at the canopied dais (167). ...
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ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Men of the Air Supply Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, packing a variety of material ready for delivery by parachute to troops in the field ...
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USA
Fictionalised documentary of evangelist Mott Keislar and his physician wife in Lahore and how they teach and treat local people.
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement, arrives by air at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is welcomed by the Supreme Allied ...
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Great Britain
The Calcutta waterfront viewed from a vessel moving up the Ganges, showing pilgrims descending into the water, dhows and rafts.
The Warwick Film Catalogue from 1901 contains a listing for Panorama of Calcutta, India, from the ...
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France
INTEREST. The Maharajah of Kapurthala and his guests on their journey towards the fishing grounds: men riding on elephants (29). A rest period: Indians and Europeans sitting in circles talking and smoking (65). Indian dignitaries bowing at the ...
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PARTITION 1987
INDIAN SUMMERGreat BritainA parable about the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA 1984
Great Britain, USAEpic drama set in Chandrapore in the 1920s, about the relationships between a group of English people and a Muslim doctor who is accused of assaulting an English woman during a visit to the Marabar Caves.
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PATHÉ'S ANIMATED GAZETTEGreat Britain
Coverage of the King and Queen at the Delhi Durbar in December 1911.
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PATHÉ'S ANIMATED GAZETTEGreat Britain
"Memorial serivce at St Paul's Cathedral to the Antarctic heroes. The arrival of the Lord Mayor of London and sheriffs." Arrival of the coaches. The Lord Mayor - Sir David Burnett - and other officials climb the ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Stage and film star Patricia Burke gives an impromptu show to British troops while she is the guest of XV Indian Corps on Akyab Island in the Arakan ...
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Great Britain
The film shows Indian towns and villages, and highlights the production of silk, wheat, rice, sugar and jute.
The film opens with a map of India, which a title introduces as the 'land of Mosques and Temples' and as the 'land of ...
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USA
INTEREST: Scenes in Bombay and Calcutta.
"The Botanical Gardens of Bombay"(5). MS park gardens. A European man in the foreground photographs an approaching elephant with several passengers on its back (23). "The Jain Temple and gardens of ...
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India. (1926?1946?) British man pouring tea by the roadside from a flask, then climbing onto a horse and off trekking, many locals carrying sacks following through hills and villages. British woman on a horse, side-saddle (44) (c1932) On hunt through ...
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PLANES OF HINDUSTAN 1940
IndiaDocumentary on life in the Indian Air Force (IAF) culminates with a plea to Indian audience for more and better planes for the IAF.
At the headquarters of the Indian Air Force in the Punjab, Hawker Harts of 1 ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Film showing a number of slogans, posters and graffiti during rising political unrest in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia).
A large ...
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
Footage depicting the unsettled political climate in Bandoeng (Bandung) in central Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
Slow pan left-to-right ...
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PREM SANYAS 1926
IndiaStory of Prince Gautama and how he became Lord Buddha, the Enlightened One.
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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
A few miles from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma, the men of 123rd Mechanical Equipment Corps and 702nd Mechanical Equipment Corps level a large area ...
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PRESTON'S EMPIRE DAY 1909
Great BritainA record of the Preston Empire Day celebration of 22 May 1909.
A title introduces 'Preston Empire Day May 22nd 1909. Promoter of the Empire Day Movement Right Hon. The Earl of Meath K.P., P.C.'. Boys in sailor uniforms and girls in ...
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No main title. Men in military uniform disembarking from a small launch. A second launch from which the Prince and Princess of Wales (later George V and Queen Mary) disembark, they are greeted by five men (one of whom is Indian) and are followed by ...
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ACTUALITY. Ranjitsinhji, practising at the nets prior to the First Test between England and Australia at Sydney, 13-17 December 1897. The camera is positioned in the silly mid-off area, behind the side netting.
Watched by a bowler-hatted man ...
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TOPICAL BUDGETGreat Britain
MAIN TITLE Prince of Wales [later, Edward, Duke of Windsor] sets sail from Portsmouth for India on the 'Renown' (55ft).
Note: Harold Jeapes accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of India and Japan, presumably ...
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PROCESSION IN INDIA 1910
FranceINTEREST. A short procession of Indian men and women pass in front of the camera. The men are in the front of the procession carrying flags. The women follow. Four women carry a canopy under which a fifth walks. Behind them, a small child is ...
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Great Britain
Amateur film showing a procession of elephants in silver-plated armour in Jaipur; women spinning; the road to Amber; scenes of the Craster family at Jotwara including a Sikh orderly; John McLeod Campbell at Galta; sacred monkeys; a fakir; ...
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