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 ( ...
ACTUALITY. A British official opens the Agriculture and Health Exhibition in Bengal, 1933. The opening ceremony and crowds.
Bengali titles (6). The entrance to the exhibition seen in the background. Two temporary towers with white painted ...
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; ...
Kashmir. Scenery. Mountain rivers. Bridges foot & vehicle. Tanmarg & Gulmarg. Shalimar Gardens. Palace & formal gardens. European formal lawn picnic. Holiday villas in the woods. Wooden Indian village houses & groups of Indigenous ...
Sunday morning drinks at Pindi country club. Topi country park. Basaar with street vendors & arms dealers. Hill station under heavy snow. Christmas lunch at Pindi club. Larking at picnic. Lawrence College. Ghora Gali. Hazara. NWFP. ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Bandsman Mr T A Link of 2nd Battalion Welch Regiment records soldiers of the Battalion dressed up in a variety of mock oriental guises and as Welsh miners parading, playing a rugby match ...
Amateur film of Indian wildlife. Includes, a black buck; a wild pig being fed; the road to Udaipur; a ram fight, cock fight at Chitor; the Maharajah of Jaipur's head Mahout;(elephant trainer) an elephants fight at Jaipur.
Amateur film, taken in Lahore, showing prayers in the Badashahi mosque and a view of the fort and a Sikh tomb.
"Wedding of the Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghraji Saheb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh 1933". "Part I. The Bridegroom. Princes of India arriving. The Dandia Ras. A Fuleka Procession". "Ghani Khama". "'Princes of India Arriving.' Ruling Princes ...
The sports parade of the 2nd and 10th Gurkha Rifles regiment and scenes of animal sacrifice at Shillong, Assam.
Medical missionary Ronald Carpenter's journey on the 1st steamer from Southampton to Bombay.
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter. Includes footage of Bible Churchman's Missionary Society's (B.C.M.S.) hospital in Kachwa where he worked: shots of hospital exterior; steam roller; cataracts surgery; potters wheel; ...
Promotional film for Henry Morgan & Co. Ltd. department store Montreal, Canada. Looks at carpet making in the village of Khamari in Khalapur, India. Includes footage of dying, weaving, ceremonial dancing, winding and setting warp threads, ...
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter in Kashmir. Includes footage of Mr and Mrs Carpenter holidaying in Kashmir; snow polo; sheep shearing; cutting cane; washing clothes; children at open-air school; brick making; ...
Amateur footage: Shillong races, golf, picnics (attended by Lord and Lady Willingdon) and market scenes.
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter. Includes footage of people working in Mirzapur City and District; general street scenes; Bible Churchman's Missionary Society (B.C.M.S.) wedding between Mr and Mrs Garrood; bathing ...
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter showing the work of the Bible Churchman's Missionary Society's (B.C.M.S.) mission in Kachwa: surgical operations; treating a horse; patients being transported in ricksaws; nurses in ...
Colombo harbour. Dedication of War Memorial Arch/Monument in Delhi.
Air show display at Delhi. Ascot Racemeeting. Small children enjoy life on Doresetshire farm. Troops road marching at Sandhurst. Carthorse on Dorset farm. ...
Montage of life in Simla. Colonial English life in a hill station resort which was the summer residence of The Viceroy.
Production / Donor Details: The collection of films was shot by Major General William Clavering Hartgill ...
Society English wedding in India. Bride's family, in garden receive newspaper with notice of wedding & celebrate. Large number of European wedding guests arrive outside Bombay Anglican church. Inside church - the wedding ceremony. ...
Col Peyton's car journey from Bombay. Crossing Tapati river by rickety wooden ferry. Tours of Agra, Idmad Ad Davlehs Tomb. Fatehpur. Sikri. Akbar's deserted city. Boys diving and swimming in pool at ruined building. Tour of Akbar's ...
Peytons' family holiday in Kashmir. Alpine landscape. Highland villages. European picnic in alpine forest. Europeans riding/walking by rural villa. Jhelupl & Sirinagar. Riverside dwellings & towns. Local trade & traffic on river and ...
Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at Anandgarh. Big wheel. Knife sharpener. Sweet stall. Washing elephants. Buffalo bull fight. Military sports at Rewa. The Maharajah ...
ACTUALITY. Wildlife at the foot of the Himalayas in northern India.
Forest, mountain range in background (9). A black bear walking through the forest, and on open ground (32). Chital deer grazing; other deer grazing, drinking (119). A wild pig ...
A ceremonial procession of elephants and carriages in a crowded street.
Children fancy dress preparation. Tennis party at Simla. Muttra Junction and Indian railway journey. Bombay city scape. Red Sea voyage. Gulf of Suez and the Suez canal.
Production / Donor Details: The collection of films was ...
The voyage of troopship SS Navasa through Suez Canal to India. Busy harbours with commercial shipping. Suez Canal. Life on Board. Deck games etc.
Production / Donor Details: The collection of films was shot by Major General ...
May's Wedding (Military/Society Wedding). Guests arrive for Anglican church wedding. Interior of Chuch with wedding congregation. Departure of Bride and groom. Large reception. Staging of formal photographs Departure of couple in car ...
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 ...
The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.
Car Journey from Rawpindi to Bombay. Views of Indore, Tapeti ferry crossing, Nasik, Beach Candy, Lido resort, swimming lessons for the baby. Young boy soldiers marching along wintery English lane. Large family reunion in England ...
Indian festival of Banpati at Chowpatty, Bombay. Street processions with images of gods carried aloft. Riverside crowds entering waters. Committal of the images to the sea. Crowds celebrating in the sea with the images. 'The Coconut ...
Shots with captions of: the Khyber Pass; Fort Jamrud; Shaghai Fort; Ali Masjid Gaugle; Supply depot at Landikotal & Fort; Gorge & mountain roads; railway and scenery; Afghan Boarder Post; operations against the Afridis; the Army ...
AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.
The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta (21). Plane refueling (47). Aerial views and Indians gathered around plane (61). Arrival of plane at Jodhpor, people ...
Amateur film of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.
1: Delhi Horse Show , 1929.
2: New Zealand bush shots.
3: Simla: monkeys and beagling, 1931(?).
4: Simla: dead panther and moving house, 1931.
5: Simla: Scenes in the snow, 1931.
Production / Donor ...
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.
A 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 ...
Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans on beach with dogs. "INDIA - THE SEA MAY BE A BARRIER OR A BRIDGE" "INDIA---BRITAIN THE SEA SEPERATES ...
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 ...
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.
Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).
"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
"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 ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces in the late 1920s and 1930s. Archive ...
