Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, with Lady Marie Thomas, 1st Marchioness of Willingdon.
Main title (7)). LS of the Victoria monument building, flanked by two large stone lions (16). ...
PROPAGANDA. The way in which Indian hill tribes make contributions to the War effort.
An annual religious festival accompanied by music and dancing is something the hillmen look forward to with pleasure (182). The years between the ...
The Maharajah of Manipur's official dancers perform for airmen of the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force.
A young, female, Manipuri ...
INTEREST. Travelogue principally around Delhi.
Main titles. (3) MS double gateway, in a perimeter wall, horse and ox traffic passing through. (8) CU of the head of one of the archways. (12) MCU train arriving at a station, a large ...
A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.
An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the film - 'Canadians to Salisbury Plain, England. Indians to Marseilles, France. New Zealanders ...
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 showing everyday life in the Hunter household in Uttar Pradesh.
Mr Hnter introduces films by titles. In train nearing Meerut. Station at Meerut. Train drawing in. Porter taking up luggage from passengers. Indian railway ...
ACTUALITY. Indians gathering honey from trees.
L.S. man in top branches of a tree lowering a basket of honey to the ground (16). An Indian, at the foot of the tree, throws a rope into the branches. The honey gatherer climbs up the ...
Amateur film showing the Horse Artillery and Sir Hugh Stephenson, Governor of Bihar and Orissa. Scenes include; a polo match, probably the Prince of Wales' Cup; Red Fort at Delhi; Delhi and Patna horse shows, carriages, street scenes near ...
Two former prisoners of war, one British and one Indian, receive medical treatment at a hospital in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand).
Naik Qasin Khan seen ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Bombay, the Gateway to India, Bombay Yachting Club, crowded street with street markets, Perth + Freemantel city scenes with the War Memorial.
Approach to Sydney harbour. The harbour. City scenes with Trade Fair carnival through ...
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.
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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 ...
Local Chinese civilians take part in an identity parade in order to identify Japanese troops suspected of war crimes at Sham Shui Po internment camp in ...
Amateur film. Features scenes from a 1934-1935 tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
No titles. In Manipur State, MS the filmmaker G.P. Stewart, dressed in a safari suit and topi hat, seated on the ground talking to ...
Amateur film. ?Camp in Waziristan, Khyber. Sunset in camp, blockhouse and many tents in lines, camels and drivers.
"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 ( ...
