Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden party setting, greeting people and being greeted. 2. Gandhi getting out of a car in an Indian street. 3. A close-up of ...
Big game hunting in India.
Fictionalised documentary of evangelist Mott Keislar and his physician wife in Lahore and how they teach and treat local people.
Personal film of Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India from the early to mid-1930s.
Brief shot of moving steam train. Indian Maharajah in finery, horses led by servants with plumed headdresses. Indians in uniform followed by European ...
"IN INDIA TODAY: GANDHI : STORMY PETREL OF INDIAN POLITICS; COMPLETES 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' MARCH TO BREAK SALT LAWS, UNINTERFERED WITH BY AUTHORITIES" Shots of the procession, including (30-41, 56-76 & 88-98) shots of Gandhi ( ...
Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes in Benares; Nicola's wedding; Lucknow races.
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Large social picnics for Europeans carrying on life just as though in England. Bombay waterfront from the sea. Visit by Naval gunboat. Holiday on offshore island. The very busy commercial traffic carried on by Indian ocean-going ...
Fox hunting, domestic, ceremonial and countryside.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician Tam Dalyell, during their service in the Empire. Lt.- ...
Indian sea rocky coast. Large thatched hut with Sahib and dog. Light house with Indian on camel. Dusserah at Rewa. Prince on elelphant taking part in parade with Indain troops, mounted lancers and marching band. Military parade at ...
Camel riding. Local women drawing water from well and carrying it home. Bullock carts and their drivers. Englishman plays with his dog on seaside beach near thatched hut.
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North West Frontier. Local tribesmen. Defensive town walls. Market or Bazaar outside the high walls of fortified border town. Camel carrying timber load. Race course meeting. Memsahib plays with dogs in grounds of residence.
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Holy Men/Beggars set up begging bowls watched by Mensahib. Mountain fishing expedition by Memsahib and Sahib. Donkey carrying large paddle like load. Large group of standing Sahibs hold planning meeting in mountains.
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Bird shooting with large mixed British party and Indian retainers in flat country side. Display of kill. Shooters take a drink break. Close scrutiny of members of party. Steam rig drilling for oil in countryside near shooting party. ...
Ahmadzar (North West Frontier?): Constuction of Dam by labouring gangs. Bullock teams and labourers. British man and woman on site. Band of local musicians.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & ...
Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.
Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.
Small Indian boy with his snake charming act.
Bombay with street market and attention to roadside shrine.
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Port Said harbour. Royal Navy sailors visiting the Sphinx. The anchorage at Aden. Bombay bay and harbour. Race course with race meeting. Visit to the historic sites of Old Delhi. Indian rural railway station.
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Race horse meeting at the Bombay Race Course(?). Formal grand wedding or ceremony at a Trade Fair? Procession with Indian Boy Scouts providing a marching band.
Horse show in the grounds outside the Red Fort of Delhi with ...
Informal sequences with The Resident and guests in garden of Mysore Residency with foot balling Bishop. The Resident makes tour of inspection up country meets local guard of honour.
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Detailed exploration of the Red Fort at Agra with close attention to the architectural features. Distant views of the Taj Mahal framed in windows of Red Fort.
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John ...
Delhi and Quitab. Detailed scenes of the Red Fort. Humayun Mausoleum, Kwat-Ul-Mosque, Kitb Minar. Lodi Tomb. Views of exterior of Holy Temple at Amristar.
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John ...
Kashmir. Formal gardens of Mogul lakeside palace. Ornate flowers;orchards. Houseboats moored at the lake. Canal trade. Town scape of lake side town. Outdoor potter working with his wheel Grand lady memsahib inspecting her large garden ...
Reel 1: "Shall Mills, TPT and Camp". Camel and mule transport. Ambulance truck. Two British officers in solar topees.
Reel 2: "Shall Mills and Tennis, Pishin" (ie Baluchistan). Camel transport. ASD (DSA) on mountainside. Playing tennis. [Film ...
India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan. Also includes scenes of Indian Army in the field, ...
ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.
Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white storks swimming and fishing on a pond (66). A succession of birds of various species feeding on a patch of grass. ...
ACTUALITY. Scenes at the leper colony supported by the Baptist Missionary Society at Cuttack in Orissa province.
Two men and two women walk through a wide gate above which an arch bears the sign "Cuttack Leper Asylum 1919" and a banner reads "We ...
ACTUALITY. Hunting tigers in north India.
Hunters travelling on elephants to a rendezvous from which the elephants advance in a line. A leopard is shot, then a tiger [actual shooting is not seen]; both dead animals are lashed on top of an ...
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 ...
1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.
23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.
Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an around Gantok residency. 10.04 2. Gyantse and west Tibet. 11.20 3. Gantok residency in Sikkim, 1931-2. 4. Ha and Paro ...
22 reels of footage short by Mark Tully and his sisters in India from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. Footage includes numerous scenes of leisure (golf), family footage, and film taken in locations including Sikkim, Calcutta, and Puri. ...
Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...
The horse race.
Amateur film of a journey to India via the Suez Canal, of people and life taken in India, 1929.
The film opens with a shot of a cathedral and the Suez canal. Boys dive for coins and activity on board ship on the way out to India is ...
Indian and European men and women on back of elephant; dead stag being tied onto an elephant; group photograph back at camp - European hunter and family pose in front of elephants and mahouts; party setting out again; dead leopard; another ...
Amateur film showing Sir Hugh Stephenson, local scenes in Patna and Ranchi districts of India. Scenes include; seeing the Governor, Sir Hugh Stephenson, off at the station; the Governor's staff; dead tiger; a picnic; bison; dead deer; ...
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 ...
Unedited material on India showing local scenes and European educationalists or missionaries.
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 ...
Herds of elephants in the wild. British women watching elephants. Scenes of tented city in parkland and people strolling and greeting one another. The breaking in of elephants to be trained for work in the logging camps. Working ...
Crocodile hunting by the local plateau people (Mysore?) watched over by Col & Mrs Loch who undertake normal line fishing from rivers, and coracles. Plateau type rivers with rapids & rocks.
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New Delhi state buildings. Tattoo or formal parade by kilted Highland troops with bagpipes and drums in front of State buildings. Horse jumping competion. Temples and buildings of Old Delhi. High official and aide display their formal ...
Sahib and Memsahib inspecting formal garden. Working camp of elephants. Washing elephants in river. Elephants with their calves and riders being lead secured by chains. Formal gathering of Indian dignitaries seated at open air ...
Large horse racing meeting at grand race course. Fashionable stylish race goers. Parades and racing. Hill country fox hunting meeting with all the atmosphere of an English 'Point to Point' (Mysore, Bangalore and Ooty).
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Indian Stud farm (Kunigal) Christmas 1929. Groom exercises and parades lively black stallion in yard. Big herd of horses including foals gallop excitedly in large paddock.
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Laden donkeys crossing river. Road gang prepring road surface with bullock team. Group of local farmers. British offical inspects detachment of Police. British official at home in grounds of official bungalow.
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Garden scenes.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician Tam Dalyell, during their service in the Empire. Lt.-Col. Loch (who took the name and ...
High level military inspection of newly built bridge over ravine.
Indian troops in action on north west frontier.
Dressage in grounds of Official Residence.
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British gentlemen exhibit their prize stallions as if for sale and they are inspected on open downland.
Long camel caravan train passing along mountainous road near Frontier post on Afghan frontier.
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Great sport with pet dogs in the lawned garden of official residence (Mysore?).
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician Tam Dalyell, during ...
