The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.

On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...

"FLAG WAVING: American women protest in favour of peace" (15). On the steps of a building a crowd of women stand waving American flags (20).

"KILTIES IN TRAINING" (26). Small children wave as soldiers of a Scottish regiment pass ...

"OUR TROOPS IN INDIA: PARADE OF THE BOMBAY LIGHT HORSE". A column of cavalry march across a field in long lines abreast (30).

"BATTLE OF FLOWERS: CARNIVAL HELD AT BORGHESE, ITALY". Some gaily decorated horse-drawn ...

Officers, including Lieutenant-General Slim, from the South East Asia Command gather for a conference in the jungle near Imphal, India.

Officers ...

General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief 11th Army Group, inspects his forward troops near Tamu on the Indian-Burmese border.

General ...

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits troops on garrison duty on Labuan island off Borneo.

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General William Slim, General Officer Commanding 14th Army arrives at Imphal airstrip and chats to Air Commodore S F Vincent, Air Officer Commanding 221 Group RAF and Lieutenant- ...

Amateur footage, in black and white and colour, shot and edited by Rosie Newman, of her travels in India, 1935.

The film opens with the arrival by ship in Bombay, with shots of the harbour, the tug, disembarkation, ...

INTEREST - Travelogue. Scenes of Indian life and architecture.

RL.1 Seas breaking on the rocks at Cape Comorin (58-89); the Afghan end of the Khyber Pass (106-182); sentries on guard (233); a camel caravan (332); map ...

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Main title and credit (15). The Governor's entourage preceeded by a guard of honour walk from Government House along a red carpet lined with ...

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the pre-war Governor of Burma, returns to Government House, Rangoon, after years of government-in-exile.

View looking ...

Amateur film of colonial India.

The start of a hunt, with elephants and beaters (3); view from an elephant howdah (16). Various shots of wounded animals, the elephants and the beaters (47). The Governor's Durbar: pontoon bridge ...

A tour made by rail and road to India, Burma and Sikkim, by members of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons [18 cans].

Arrival Bombay - Jubbulpore November/December 1927

Sports. Building - Bombay yacht club. Station - being seen ...

Scenes of RAF 211 Squadron Bristol Beaufighter ground attack aircraft being serviced before mounting attacks on enemy positions and transport from an ...

Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, GUNGA DIN is a fictional tale set in British India during the Thuggee uprising.

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 ...

Gurkha infantry of 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, 63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division, seen entering the town of Pegu (Bago) during IV Corps' advance ...

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. ...

Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.

Footage of India's coastline is used as an introduction. Indian boys arriving to join the Navy are shown next, and the film chooses one of them to ...

St. James's Park and its environs.

Opening LS view of St. James's Park, Piccadilly; traffic passing Marble Arch (92). Entrance to the Mall; Waterloo steps; Carlton House Terrace; the Mall (131); pan of buildings bordering St. James's ...

About the experiences of two young English women in India, two generations apart, in the 1920s and 1980s. Anne, a young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia, and becomes obsessed with their revelation of ...

The coronation procession of King George V.

No titles. Two frames with `King George V Coronation' scratched on them. The coronation coach passes through Admiralty Arch into Trafalgar Square (50). The coach passes down Whitehall (120 ...