A procession of decorated elephants with howdahs, and troops on foot and horseback. This appears to be the Delhi Durbar of January, 1903.

Natural rubber production in Travancore.

Indian Sappers and Miners of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen at work with shovels, picks and bulldozers to prepare a road between the ...

No titles. Static shot. An Indian woman (dressed in a sari) emerges from an Indian style doorway accompanied by a child. To the sides of the doorway seem to be a painted backdrop indicating a stone building. The entrance is flanked by ...

Hindu troops of 1st Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment, stationed in Saigon (French Indo-China, now Vietnam) celebrate the festival of Dasera.

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INTEREST. An Indian baby is held in various positions on the knees of an Indian woman, while another pours several jugfuls of water over it. A man wearing a turban sits watching (92ft)

AMATEUR. Scenes in an Indian wildlife park.

A couple, in colonial style clothes, stand behind a tapir. The man strokes and pats the animal (17) [slight jump in film]. The same couple stand on a river bank with another, similarly ...

A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the first half of the Second World War.

Commentary recalls WW1 service and inter-war status as a frontier force, over shots ...

Seeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and the latter is commissioned under false pretences to build a tomb where Seeta will be buried alive ...

Reel 1: A Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) being launched. A man paints an identity number (N-226) onto a Higgins barge with a stencil. An engine is lowered into a Unicraft tug. A Higgins ...

An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.

Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...

Troops of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment and the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles cross the Irrawaddy River ...

Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above the paddlewheel of a steamer with thick black smoke billowing from a funnel. ...

Amateur film showing some of the inland waterway constructions in the Punjab.

TRAVELOGUE. Jaipur is the "Pink City" and the capital of Rajasthan in India. This travelogue shows the State Parade including armoured elephants and the State Coach; craftsmen at work producing hammered brass trays and ornamental pieces, ...

Amateur film of Indian wildlife. Includes, a black buck; a wild pig being fed; the road to Udaipur; a ram fight, cock fight at Chitor; the Maharajah of Jaipur's head Mahout;(elephant trainer) an elephants fight at Jaipur.

Following the breakout of Japanese forces in the Pegu Yomas, mortars, armoured cars, tanks and infantry are deployed to prevent their escape eastwards, ...

With the surrender of Japan, a party of Japanese troops arrives in British territory on the banks of the River Sittang near Mokpalin, Burma, to discuss ...

Japanese troops of the Kempeitai are marched through Singapore from the headquarters of the Field Security Section to Pearl Hill Jail.

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Crowd watching from rails at the Royal Turf Club in Bangkok; camera pans to follow the horses. Rear quarter close-up of British spectator. British other ranks of 1st Battalion ...

Aerial footage shows Mandalay (Burma) and outlying villages during the assault by British troops of 19th Indian Division on Japanese positions.

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Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) are shaved at 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station. Two POWs prepare food; one stirs a pot of rice while another chops vegetables. An armed soldier ...

With the surrender of Japanese forces in Singapore, interned Japanese troops are put to work on manual labour tasks.

Human chain of Japanese ...