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    TOPICAL BUDGETGreat Britain

    Light aeroplanes at Heston aerodrome (75ft).

     
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    Great Britain

    Filmed in Kenya, footage of a military parade including soldiers marching and the regiment's mascot.

     
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    Great Britain

    Troops parading. A large residence with bi-plane flying overhead and around bay.

     
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    Great Britain

    Big game hunting in India.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film showing native dances, markets and race meetings in Nigeria.

     
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    Great Britain

    INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya

    Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). "Do you know that the sugar you put into your coffee cup is an Empire product? Sugar cane is a member of the ...

     
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    USA

    Fictionalised documentary of evangelist Mott Keislar and his physician wife in Lahore and how they teach and treat local people.

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia: the mine, housing for Africans and Europeans. Testing water supply.

     
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    Great Britain

    A settler arrives at Mombasa and proceeds by lorry to his future home. The film shows his first herd of cattle, horses, and sheep, and his first harvest.

    'The prospective settler lands at Mombasa' and the film then follows his ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his mother is killed by a lion, who grows up with the Sheikh's son, Nikitu.

    A local woman leaves her baby while collecting ...

     
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    SOHO FEATURE FILM MAGAZINEGreat Britain

    Cinemagazine on cocoa production in Tobago.

    "Photographics Present...Cocoa". A waterfall in Tobago, in the British West Indies. The history of the cocoa bean. Men knock pods from trees, women put them ...

     
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    PATHE GAZETTEGreat Britain

    "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 ( ...

     
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    TOPICAL BUDGETGreat Britain

    Empire Premiers, in Britain for the Imperial Conference witness a tank display (94ft).

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of MCC cricket tour. War memorial. Cricketers visit Rhodes memorial. Percy Chapman filming (48). Open-air dinner party for c.70 people (85). Countryside. Victoria Falls (130). Ornate huts. Waterfall (168). Memorial Falls (216 ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    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.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    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 ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    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.- ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    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 ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    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.

    Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    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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    Dalyell Collection

    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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    Dalyell Collection

    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. ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    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 & ...

     
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    Hayburn Collection

    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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    Hayburn Collection

    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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    Hayburn Collection

    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 ...

     
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    Dalyell Collection

    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.

    Production / Donor Details: These cine films ...

     
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    Beasley Collection

    Local people and coastal scenes on the Gold Coast around Elmina.

    Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.

     
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    Kendal Collection

    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 ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    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 ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    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 ...

     
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    GB

    Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo (1933-1938) covers British Imperial Airways Hannibal, construction of dam at Jabal Awliya, White Nile, Sudan ...

     
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    GB

    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 ...

     
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    GB

    Reel 8: "Well at Jhak. Shelabagh" (ie Baluchistan) Indians irrigate using cows to draw water from well. Volley ball.

    Reel 9: "Srinagar, Kashmir" Tourist scenes of lake and river traffic.

    Reel 10: "Barrack building, Wana" (ie Waziristan) ...

     
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    GB

    Reel 17: "Shall Mills, Troops and TPT" Indians practise wrestling. Military encampment. Camel transport train.

    Reel 18: "11/4th GR Recruits' PT" Indian recruits do PT and learn rifle drill. (Captain Reed was administrative Commandant of 11/4th ...

     
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    GB

    Reel 26: "Pipe band and sports" Indian turbaned troops parade and play pipes. Colonel Hamlin (?, tall bald officer) attends regimental sports day.

    Reel 27: "Moplah acrobatics" (ie South India) Muslim men in distinctive white dress perform ...

     
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    Incomplete (professionally made?) record of a trip to Brazil by the Graf Zeppelin airship and thence to Chile via Argentina by aeroplane.

    The film, taken mostly on board the airship, shows its progress from the ...

     
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    GB

    Amateur film by unidentified cameraman, with intertitles, records various cavalry events by the Bombay Light Horse (an Indian Army reserve regiment) on the flat and over fences, including Section Jumping, the Lamba Kan Stakes, tent-pegging (Symons' ...

     
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    BRIGADIER ALSTON COLLECTIONGB

    Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.

    The film shows several of the Camps at which the Frontier troops were based, including Mansai, Jandola, Sorarogha and ...

     
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    BRIGADIER ALSTON COLLECTIONGB

    Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.

    The film begins by showing a practice parachute supply drop and there then follows a sequence showing a convoy of ...

     
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    Duke Collection

    Scenes in the life of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. Film shows Indian Army (Bengal Sappers & Miners) life: training: drill and bayonet practice; marching; bridge building (good shots); constructing a drystone building; shots of ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    Pageant -St Georges & The Dragon. Sports day. Races. Tug of war. Egg and Spoon race. Demonstration of lorry assembly by Indian mechanics. Oil derricks. Camel train and Indian Frontier crossing.

    Production / Donor Details: These ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    Bidding farewell to servants & friends in India. Sea jouney home. Port & town of Aden. Passage through the Suez Canal. Shipping in the canal. Shoreside views from the ship. Tour of Port Said & its momuments. Marsailles city scape ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    Trials at Chakala Military Testing Ground of Armoured Cars/Light tanks which cross over rough terrain at speed and ford rivers. Trials of large armoured personal carrier pulling big field gun. Large gathering of observing English ...

     
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    Kendal Collection

    Flowering trees in streets in central Bombay streets around the Victoria Terminus..

    Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John Hamilton Bernard Peyton (Indian Army).

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Life at Naini Tal.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady Kendall, wife of Sir Charles Kendall, in Allahabad, Benares, Naini Tal, Lucknow and England. The second ...