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    USA

    Feature film made out of the 12 part serial of the same title.

     
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    USA

    Tarzan rescues a girl on safari from being kidnapped by the local chief.

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

     
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    Great Britain

    Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythology associated with them.

    Three holy men sitting on a raised stone platform n front of a large temple. Shots of the temple buildings, showing carvings (98). Priest tolling a bell (103 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Documentary on life in a desert town.

     
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    USA

    Oases in the Sahara Desert.

     
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    GB

    Amateur film with titles, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), shows identified British Army regiments and Indian troops on training exercises in Northern India, 1933-1934 ...

     
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    Amateur film by A F (Mac) McKenna of a visit with friends ? to the Khyber Pass and Srinagar, Kashmir.

    Shot of the frontier at the Khyber Pass. A car parked at the barrier, two British women (one wearing trilby is ...

     
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    An amateur film showing elephants, a leopard hunt, Col. Bailey's flight over the Himalayas to Gilgit, a tiger hunt, and a polo match in Gilgit. Includes the Maharajas of Jammu and Kashmir.

     
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    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 ...

     
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    Tiger with kill filmed in Naini Tal, North East India.

     
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    ACTUALITY. Two tigers, photographed from a tree, prowl along a river bed and lie down in the water (154ft).

     
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    GB

    Amateur film with titles, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records tourist scenes typically witnessed by British officers travelling out to India by ship in the 1930's (Port ...

     
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    GOING PLACESUSA
     
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    Great Britain

    Everyday life and places of interest around the areas of Midnapore and Chittagong.

    A steamer in the background and in the foreground and Indian stand holding a flag which says `Forest'. CU steamer which shows a European woman walking ...

     
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    USA

    African jungle spectacle.

     
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    Great Britain

    Goods transportation: ferry and junks on the waterfront; lorries; coolies carrying a variety of goods along roads. Passenger transportation: ocean liners - `Ajax'; `Aramis'; `Empress of Japan'; and `Chitral'; harbour ferries; motor buses; ...

     
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    MINISTRY OF TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIONGB

    Scenes show launches and aircraft in flight. Bursts of anti-aircraft gunfire are seen around the target and there is a good view of the midships section of a Nelson class battleship firing her secondary armament. As ...

     
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    Amateur film showing traditional dances and rituals and a gigantic flower float in Manipur, Assam.

     
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    Great Britain

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

     
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    FITZPATRICK TRAVELTALKUSA

    Travelogue of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

     
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    Great Britain

    Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease.

    An African man, 'a typical case of chronic hookworm', describes his symptoms to a friend. The film shows a close-up of the type of worms ...

     
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    Great Britain

    The forests and the mahogany timber industry of British Honduras.

     
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    India

    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 ...

     
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    Great Britain

    AMATEUR FILM. The aftermath of the September 1937 typhoon which struck Hong Kong at 2am. The first ferry sailed at about 9am. Much footage was filmed that morning; the rest a day or two later. Thirteen ships were aground. The large ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST.

    r.1 Caption explaining that the householder has two wives. At sunrise, he greets each wife in turn outside her sleeping hut. Natives warm themselves around a fire. The cows are milked, some of the milk is poured into a ...

     
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    Trevelyan Collection

    Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan. Gymkhana/Pony Race meeting. Potter at his wheel. Visit by RAF biplanes to mountain airstrip . European spectators. Promenade deck of Ocean ...

     
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    Trevelyan Collection

    Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan.Suspension bridges across deep mountain gorges. Horse riding expeditions in the snow mountains. Tribal gathering with folk dancing.; warrior ...

     
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    Trevelyan Collection

    Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan. People of Tented settlement in Alpine valley. Moutain men (Tibetains ?) in long coats and daggers posing for photographs and eating. Pack ...

     
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    Tully Collection

    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. ...

     
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    Turner Collection

    Family leave in Norfolk. Voyage to India. Stromboli. Port Suez. Quayside scenes. Indus bridge? (Large iron girders) near Peshawar. Scenery of Khyber Pass with road, railway, frontier posts and forts. Rocky mountains.

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    Turner Collection

    Port Said harbour and its waterfront. Shipping ready to enter Suez Canal.

    European Weddings in India. Bridal procession. Outdoor reception. Foxhunt gathers for the start of the hunt. The lakes of Kashmir. The craft on the water. ...

     
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    Turner Collection

    Colonial bungalow. Garden and servants. Marching brass military band. Tennis match at bungalow. Street scenes. Rural life & husbandry. Oil drilling field. Heavy snow fall in Pakistani Hill town. Polo match.

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    Turner Collection

    Tourist trip around sites of Delhi. Rural life. Imperial Airways aircraft on ground . Working then housed in hangar. Train journey to Bombay where Ocean liner is boarded with views of docks and city sea front. Aden sea front. Tea party ...

     
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    Turner Collection

    Karakhoram hillstation. Muree. Scenery of Himalayan foothills with their Pine forests and hill roads. Domestic life. Bungalow. Garden. Flowers. Baby playing. Ayahs and outdoor servants. Ayahs take babies in prams for walk. Oil fields ...

     
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    UFA NR 420 1939

    Germany

    I. Helsinki prepares for 1940 Olympics. Reportedly unaffected by world events, Finland makes final preparations for the Olympics, advertised on an English poster for 20 July to 4 August 1940. Views of the Finnish capital include the waterfront, ...

     
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    Great Britain

    AMATEUR FILM. Ripon Falls (now damned); native fisheries on Lake Victoria (canoes made of long boards sewn together). The Uganda mail train arriving at Jinja. Women washing clothes at the side of the Own Falls. Crossing the Nile by boat. ...

     
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    Amateur film following the progress of Dr. Taylor's party on their route to Ukhrul as they give medical aid to the sick of the villages through which they pass.

     
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    Depicts work of London Missionary Society at the Union Boys' High School at Bishnupur, near Calcutta, India.

     
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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

    The training of students at the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, Mpwapwa.

    The film opens with a line of African men in uniform who have been selected for a course in which they will learn 'the future of animal husbandry'. A European ...

     
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    GB

    Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The Viceroy inspects the detachment of Gurkhas, who play pipes then march past.

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    Summary based on viewing and writing by A V ...

     
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    Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

    Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning in the village; worshippers enter a Hindu temple as a gong is sounded (155). The village well; peasants, though ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Scenes in the neighbourhood of Kappali, Burma, the site of a S.P.G. mission station.

     
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    Villages, homes, and workshops in Sri Lanka.

     
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    Amateur footage of the events, including, the arrival of the SS Vita off the Kutch coast with the Maharaj of Kutch; landing at Mandvi; the residency, Bhuj; a leopard shoot at the fort of Bhujia; camp life at Mundra; crocodile shooting; and a visit to ...

     
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    Amateur film of Sir John Anderson (Governor of Bengal) to the Chittagong Hills (present-day Bangladesh).