Amateur film without titles shot by the Deputy-Prime Minister of Johore (Malaya), Abdul Azis, records distant views of a Wehrmacht parade and overhead Luftwaffe flypast, and views of Baden Baden where he was taking the waters with his wife, and where ...
(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at float. Band of Royal Marines. After training in Mediterranean, en route to Trinidad. Railway from La Guaira to Caracas, ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.
Voyage out on troopship Dorsetshire from Liverpool to Port Said (Egypt), through Suez Canal and Red Sea, past oil tanks and Arab dhows ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.
Sign to and view of Chakdara Fort. Urban and agricultural scenes in Northern India. Road marker sign to Kulu and Pandoh in Himalayas. ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Torquil MacLeod of the 71st Highland Light Infantry.
British adults and children, wearing solar topees, attend fete at Churat. British soldiers (presumably Highland Light Infantry) with ...
"Agfa" Two men on a raft splitting bamboo. Locals leaving riverside huts, carrying boxes. Two British women among them and local women carrying babies. A British man at the end of the line with a pipe and ...
Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring scenes at Hong Kong and Nanking, 1936.
The film begins with a slow pan across the harbour of Hong Kong. There are shots of Chinese ...
Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, showing scenes at Hong Kong, Christmas 1936.
The film shows Christmas celebrations formal and informal on board HMS Capetown at Hong Kong ...
Gold Coast. Rural Colonial Fort / Residence. British Colonial officer with wife walks down exterior stairs to courtyard where they and their son play with their dogs. In the Courtyard there is drawn up a Guard of African troops with ...
Gold Coast. Inter Title "Funeral Costoms by Kumasi Chief in Remebrance of the late Sir Cecil Armitage and Mr N. S. Newlands. Kumasi. 12th Apirl 1933." At a large outdoor gathering, held on a sports field, the Ashanti people re-enact ...
The majority of this film documents the construction of a bridge in India. Both the local workers as well as the British engineers can be seen. There is also a small portion of the film in which goats are beheaded in a small pen.
This is a film which documents the filmmaker and his family both in the business sector of life as well as private and family oriented sector. The film opens with views around the city (Calcutta?) including a large fountain in the ...
Life in India 1936
Sensational melodrama of a convict settlement on a tropical island, where the brutal Deputy Commandant exploits the prisoners and sparks off a revolt.
Scouts and cubs inspected by senior scouts (possibly a memorial occassion) - reel 1; scouts undertaking various typical scouting activities -reels 2 & 3. Film was probably made by V. Stilou de Piro M.D. - probably a local scout master.
Introduction to Samoa featuring footage of Tutuila, Pagopago and Apia, including the work of the Apia Samoan Church. Lava fields at Savai'i. Kava ceremony in Samoan London Missionary Society pastor's house on Savai'i. Also features footage of Vailima, ...
Travelogue of Ceylon. Shrines, pottery, various methods of fishing as used in Ceylon. We see fishing with a hand net, a special kind of drag-net, and fishing from a catamaran. The film ends with a final view of Colombo.
Amateur footage of the events, including, the arrival of the SS Vita off the Kutch coast with the Maharaj of Kutch; landing at Mandvi; the residency, Bhuj; a leopard shoot at the fort of Bhujia; camp life at Mundra; crocodile shooting; and a visit to ...
Scenes of the Phillips family, amateur film-makers, in Hong Kong: on their verandah; at a wedding; on the beach.
Film shot by Col. Sir Alister Ransford, showing various activities of the Royal Mint in Bombay.
"The Front Porch and Drive" [Colour faded]. Pan ext of building with a few people wandering. "Tennis Court. Mint Recreation Club". Europeans playing a ...
Amateur film. Manipuri sword dance; old maharajah's palace; Bone ceremony; Rathjatra procession.
Muharram (Islamic month of mourning) procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings. Changa Manga tramway with children playing on a trolley car. Gymkhana children's party with costumes, merry-go-rounds, camel rides and the "Punjabi ...
Travelogue of Singapore: harbour scenes, street scenes, Chinese quarter, Eurpean buildings, rubber plantation, etc.
AMATEUR. Footage of a journey aboard the SS Maloja from Bombay to Plymouth via, Aden, the Suez Canal, Port Said, Messina, and Gibraltar.
