Amateur footage of a journey which originated in Syria showing scenes in Egypt and the return voyage home to Britain.

Luxor, street scenes, temples the Colossi and the photographer, Cuthbert Wigham. Crossing the Nile. Sakkara, crossing the desert ...

Mussooree Road through hills, with views of the bends in the road from a car. Children in lorry. At Mussooree, bazaar scenes and children in rickshaw. Sikh procession. King's birthday parade at Simla 1931 - 11th mountain battery parades, arrival of ...

Amateur film of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Information film about manufacture of tea by CWS. Includes footage from their plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the CWS Westhall factory and the CWS Leman Street tea warehouse. Begins with a dramatic sequence depicting a young man and his father ...

Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun - the log pond, saw mills and timber testing workshop. The Silvicultural (forestry) Museum and Botanical Herbarium. Seasoning kiln for controlling and hastening the drying of timber. Experiments of fire damage to ...

Propaganda cartoon. After poor service from the garages of Ramsay MacDonald & Co. and Llloyd George & Co., John Bull takes his car to Baldwin's Prosperity Garage, where he is given the right fuel: a mixture of Empire unity, safeguarding and reduced ...

Story of two friends who enlist in the Army at the outbreak of war in 1914 and are sent to Gallipoli.

Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in England for the India Round Table Conference at St James' Palace (second session).

"The Mahatma arrives to attend India Round Table Conference" (1 frame). Gandhi seated on floor, in loin cloth, works ...

Crowds at festival in Dehra Dun. Raising of the 'sacred pole', a full-grown sal tree swathed in red velvet. The Mahant Sahib, a local dignitary. On the pilgrim's route to the source of the Ganges in Tehri Garwhal - snowy peaks, women cutting corn, rope ...

ACTUALITY. The fleet at Gibraltar. Harbour shots and battleships. The Governor of Gibraltar, General Sir Alexander Godley dressed for hunting. The Calpe Hunt meet in Spain. Soldiers and sailors feeding the apes. Locals on steep steps in ...

Amateur film of irrigation project.

Hardwar, a holy town of pilgrimage where the Ganges cuts through the Siwalk hills - views of the Ganges canal, water front and temples. Pilgrim's camps for the Kumbh Mela, bridge especially by the Roorkee Sappers for the Kumbh Mela traffic. Crowds at ...

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 ...

Newsreel item on aircraft of 14 Squadron flying over Mount Kenya, probably 1931.

The squadron pilots start up their Fairey IIIF aircraft and take off. Three of them, and the camera plane (see note below), overfly the ...

Castries, St Lucia; Georgetown, Grenada; Windward Islands

A record of a journey made by motor car from Iran, across desert country and alo ng the mountainous roads of Central Asia to India.

A London schoolboy dreams he visits Buckingham Palace, where he makes the King's Christmas pudding from ingredients collected from different parts of the British Empire.

A boy washes and gets ready for school, noting over breakfast ...

Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.

A record of a safari in East Africa.

No main title. "Owing to rains having set in we decide to go home and say goodbye to our scout". CU of African scout in pith helmet and with sharpended pointed teeth. Expedition member shakes ...

Amateur film of British Somaliland taken by Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester. Pan of Berbera. Burco, the headquarters of the Camel Corps. Troops seen exercising. A watering hole. Activities of the natives. Arrival at Malta on the journey ...

Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans on beach with dogs. "INDIA - THE SEA MAY BE A BARRIER OR A BRIDGE" "INDIA---BRITAIN THE SEA SEPERATES ...

INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where the cocoa pods are plucked from the tree trunks, the beans extracted and sorted by natives. Commentary explains ...

Amateur footage of various scenes in Malaysia.

Devil dancing in Singapore. Shots of a family and fishing scenes. The watch tower at Malacca. Brief shots of the region of Johore including, the river ferry at Maur (Muar), the causeway ...

Amateur footage of scenes in Ethiopia and Addis Ababa at the time of Haile Selassie's coronation, November 1930.

"Leaving Aden". Shots of the shore from ship, pan of shoreline with ships and dhows off Aden. "A country station with ...

Empire Day celebrations in Hyde Park (71ft).

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 ...

WEST AFRICAN COCOA PLANTATIONS.

Amateur film. Run by the Church Missionary Society. Nurses going up to the cathedral (in colour). Cooking. Vaccinating boys of the school at Budo; Canon Grace; Dr and Mrs Schofield at the village maternity centre. Church Missionary society ...

Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.

Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box in which film came to Archive, but not known if this relates to this particular film.

Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).

ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM. An expedition through the Borneo jungle to a pygmy settlement. All the `pygmies' smoke, including children from the age of seven.

No main title. "It was strictly for purposes of scientific study that we went to Borneo ...

"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."

An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.

The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...

DRAMA. The whites working a rubber plantation in West africa slowly collapse under the multiple strains that their life-style imposes.

Rl.1. Introduction about the effect of damp rot in West Africa (50ft). On a rubber plantation in ...

AMATEUR. Film shot around the Gold Coast, with views from a train and a car, and shots of a small animal (a young deer of some kind) and a snake. There are also scenes of village life and a market, and pets(?).

"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of Royal procession along Aldwych (0.09). Ground view of arrival of royal landau at India House. King George ...

Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education and agricultural development.

Reels one and two missing.

Reel three. Wesley College, Kumasi ...

Amateur film covering Bagnold's explorations of the Libyan desert, 1930 and 1932.

r.1 Names of the exploration party and a map showing route of first reconnaissance of the Great Sand Sea in 1929 (15). Map of route taken to Uweinat ...

Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.

DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces in the late 1920s and 1930s. Archive ...

Footage of wildlife at an African waterhole, and of a tree hide.

"London, Houses of Parliament, `cameos of the Caribbean' Way out on the Spanish main, where Drake and his sea-dogs chased buccaneers... Lie those sun-kissed isles of romantic beauty, the lovely Leewards Islands. `London to Leewards' a ...

Amateur film.

Sign, reading H.M.S. Orion, parade and scouts lining up for march. Woodpecker on tree. Sea-shore and team paddling. Teatime in the camp. Crab. Sea-shore. Party of women walking. Grass hut. Fields. View from boat. ...

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 ...

INTEREST. Boys at Bisley School during Empire Day celebrations and performing gym exercises.

[Film broken at the beginning]. "Lt Col Sir Archibald WEIGALL KCMG Inspects the Rank". The Colonel walks down rows of boys and chats to ...