Scenes of the life of a farmer and his family in Maharashtra during the changing seasons of the year.
In 1943 the Film Advisory Board (FAB), the body that had been created to oversee the production of wartime documentaries in India, was ...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 ...
Amateur film of the residency at Mhow, India, and Freya Stark. stark is received by the Acting Resident Major W F. Webb when she called on 18th March 1945. Scenes of the residency gardens with the children and staff. Victory parades for ...
Some footage duplicated from GORRIE PERSONAL FILM NO. 14, some from others. Sheila Mary's first summer, birthday games with her father. Squaring deodar log before sawing. "S G as cine heroine". Woman climbing up hill with mule on tow. ...
Amateur film taken by the political agent in Quetta while on tour. Film taken by the Political Officer Mr barlow and accompanied by the Forest Officer Mr Mieklejohn. The first camp being set up by porters and local coolies. The carvan on ...
Amateur film of the spring festival at Udaipur. Views of the Residency and its garden. Poeple dressed in their best assemble on the banks of the lake. Dancing girls wait to board a launch. Rajput nobles assemble on the landing stage to ...
"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 ...
Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while under threat of Japanese invasion.
The film briefly outlines the various factions - in particular the ...
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training (morse by flag, heliograph, shutter etc.); medical care; post office; pay; ...
Newsreel items (mute) including production of India rubber, capture of Tiddim (Burma) and South African Navy at sea.
Documentary: Film shows examples of different aspects of India, religion, peasan ts and sophisticated society.
A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and personnel strength.
Heavy (RN ?) warships at sea; the sloop HMIS Indus in the pool of London (by Tower Bridge); a parade; new ...
Big game hunting in India.
Scenes Vengeance divebombers of 8 Squadron Indian Air Force in action.
Exterior shot of a building, presumably the briefing room, with pilots ...
Political and social life in India.
Credits. Crowd of Indians. Commentary states that among the contradictions of India a new nation is being born. Boys begging. Images of Gandhi, Jinah and Nehru. Banner reading 'Pakistan is our ...
Colonel Mackenzie Rogan inspects Indian bands ready for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (52ft).
Scenes of an Indian Durbar.
Arrival of the editors of leading Indian newspapers, on a goodwill tour run by the Ministry of Information, at their London hotel, 11th October 1918.
The party of five, with a guide, leave the front of the Hyde Park ...
INTEREST. Indian elephants bathing and working.
Sea breaking on rocky shoreline (17). Native handlers on Indian elephants emerging from a lake (49). A handler makes his elephant lie down in the water (73). An elephant carrying a piece ...
The use of elephants in British India as working animals and in hunting.
Scenes at an Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop of 123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division, and views of bomb damage and terrain on the ...
