AMATEUR. Amateur film of Sir Conrad Corfield and family and of colonial life in India.

Childrens school in England. House in Delhi at 1,King Edward Road. Gwalior residency - garden and swimming pool. Jaipur, March 1938. River crossing. The ...

The use of elephants in British India as working animals and in hunting.

Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning in the village; worshippers enter a Hindu temple as a gong is sounded (155). The village well; peasants, though ...

Amateur film. Funeral procession of 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bengal 1937-9, in Calcutta in 1939.

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

INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the tribesman (87), close-up of a Gond tribesman with axe and spear (92), items such as opium, amulet, pipes which the tribesman ...

The film celebrates the operations of the Bata shoe company highlighting, in particular, the welfare provided for its workers at its specially-built industrial town of Batanagar.

The film’s opening ...

Ship's voyage from Aden, through the Suez Canal to Egypt. Street traders and traders seeking business from the ship. Snake charmer with Cobra snake. Also canal and street scenes in busy small town in Southern India.

Production / ...

START 00:00:00 Views filmed inside a drydock (probably the one at Whampoa Dock from 21 to 24 October 1939) showing the starboard side of HMS Kent during dockyard repairs; clearly visible are the draught marks in Latin numerals painted on the bow ...

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson of the Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley Rifles), Indian Army while serving on the North-West Frontier of India.

Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the Ceylon (?), Muscat, East Africa, India and Burma, the Seychelles and while serving on HMS Ilex (1937-1939) ...

Depicts medical work of the London Missionary Society at Jianganj, specifically at the new hospital built by the Society to serve the Murshidabad district of Bengal. Mission staff featured include Dr. Beryl Bowering and Dr. Oliver Newell.

A welcoming committee of dignitaries for the arrival of a train. A procession through the streets with elephants. The groom (?) in a limousine with a mounted escort. View from upstairs window. CU of elephants. Pan of horses and attendants. English and ...

Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and some blind children are shown.

Scenes of an Indian Durbar.

A dramatised reconstruction. Venkata Rao, a caste man, becomes a Christian (renamed Paul) despite his family's opposition, and persecution. He is ordained and despite being beaten by villagers he wins over his family who themselves are ...

Documentary 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 ...

Second reel only of a short admonitory official film with an anti-rumour or anti-gossip message. It tells the story of a Bombay stockbroker who sells his shares and evacuates the city because of false rumours of aerial ...

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 ...

START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least three giant sea turtles caught for food by the crew of HMS Kent and the waterfront at Male', the main population centre in the island group, ...

Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.

Notes

Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file

Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.

Notes

Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file

Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.

Notes

Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file

The film opens with a sunrise shot, followed by scenes in Le Touquet, probably 1938, with shots of a large open-air swimming pool and Aero-plages (sand-yachts) on the beach. Scenes from the Grandes Fte de Fleurs in Le Touquet including a group of young ...