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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Railway station exit at Peshawar. Shop fronts of quiet rural town with close up of the names of tradespeople. Centre of Peshawar with busy narrow streets and bazaars. RAF 'Walrus' seaplane at rural airfield. Wrestling match ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Journey by car up mountainous roads to Simla through border post. General views of Simla town centre with its buildings and busy street life. British couple go riding in the hills around the town. British military wedding at ...

     
  • Chisman (Keal) Collection: 15. Waziristan (2) 1937
    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan. Also includes scenes of Indian Army in the field, ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Delhi War Memorial

    Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya.

     
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    WT Blake Collection

    Quasi-official detailed guided tour of the Colony of Gibraltar with informative intertitles.

    Production / Donor Details: Major Wilfred Theodore Blake (1894-1968) was a pioneer aviator, author and traveller.

     
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    Rangoon, Mandalay, Penang Funeral', 1930s

     
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    Basden Collection

    Leaving Liverpool. Madeira. Las Palmas. Sierra Leone. Takoradi. Accra. Lagos. Bonny. Port Harcourt.

    Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925- ...

     
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    Basden Collection

    Crossing Niger. Young Isaac Waltons. Dancing Class. Asaba, Mbieri, Amawbia. Mbaku (leader run amok) Ugwu-Awba.

    Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the ...

     
  • Basden Collection 3: 'Africa Dances' pt 3: Dancing competitions and masks
    Basden Collection

    Dancing competitions and various masks. Umu-Chuku, Mbaku & Amanuke. Grandfather Maw, Enu-Ugwu-Abaw; Spirit maidens (Aghogho Mmonwui); District Officer mask (Onyeocha)?; Native Police masks. Nibo. Umu-Chuku Maws. Mgbedike masks.

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    Basden Collection

    Girls' dance groups.

    Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and 'Among the Ibo') about the Ibo of Nigeria, ...

     
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    Basden Collection

    Various scenes on the Niger Delta. River trade. Music. Blacksmith. Mission hospital. Varoius shots of church-going Africans in European dress, numerous African church ministers, African choirboys.

    Production / Donor Details: ...

     
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    Basden Collection

    Various dances and masquerades, possibly at a funeral. Funeral celebrations and sacrifices. Dancing and masks. Final part of film.

    Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and ...

     
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    GIBRALTAR 1930

    We see many views of the rock from different aspects. Views of the town show public buildings, street scenes and items of historical interest. The village of Catalan Bay, St. Michael's Cave, tennis, sailing etc., and evidence of the army and navy ...

     
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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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    TRAVELOGUE. Life and work of the peasants of Cyprus. This film consists of material shot for the 1929 film CYPRUS, re-edited and with a sound commentary.

    Credits (18). A car drives along a mountain road in Cyprus. A camel caravan. Car approaches ...

     
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    Depicts life at mission schools in Samoa, including Papuata Girls' High School, Leulumoega Fou Boys' High School, Malua College and Atauloma Girls' High School.

     
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    Rafai fakirs performing rituals - dislocation of eyeball and skewering of neck, cheeks and head.

     
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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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    A colonial sports day in India (probably in Jodphur), an obstacle race, bicycle race and motor car race. An airfield with a biplane.

     
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    Winter quarters at Simla. The family at home - Craigdhu playground with crawling lessons for a baby (Sheila Mary?). Skating at Blessington - the pond; "S.G. does her piece" - skating moves; leapfrog. Winter at Simla 1929, Sheila at Christchurch Lodge; ...

     
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    CHINA I 1930

    Amateur footage of a journey through China and a visit to Hong Kong.

    Rickshaws. Harbour scenes in Hong Kong (?). High level shot of harbour. A Chinese family. Street procession. Harbour scenes, junks, sounding for depth. Up river scenes. Rural ...

     
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    ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.

    Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white storks swimming and fishing on a pond (66). A succession of birds of various species feeding on a patch of grass. ...

     
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    ACTUALITY. Scenes at the leper colony supported by the Baptist Missionary Society at Cuttack in Orissa province.

    Two men and two women walk through a wide gate above which an arch bears the sign "Cuttack Leper Asylum 1919" and a banner reads "We ...

     
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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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    India. (1926?1946?) British man pouring tea by the roadside from a flask, then climbing onto a horse and off trekking, many locals carrying sacks following through hills and villages. British woman on a horse, side-saddle (44) (c1932) On hunt through ...

     
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    Delhi fort - Lahore gate and Delhi gate, black marble elephants. Pleasure gardens of Moghal emperors; hall of audience. Friday prayers at Jumma Masjid, huge crowds in ornate square. Ferozabad, the 6th city of old Delhi, views around the ruins. Humayun ...

     
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    Bombay. Davis Road, Lahore. Canal bank, Lahore. Armistice Day Parade with ex-service men. Bathing the dog. Christmas Day in Lawrence Gardens. Lahore bazaar traffic. Small boy dancing to gramophone recording. Loading camels. Padre Gorrie's wedding - ...

     
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    Rafai fakir group performs rituals in private palace courtyard, Hyderabad.

     
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    INTEREST. The royal residence on Bolghotty Island and the town life and buildings in Cochin, India.

     
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    A polo match probably played in Jodphur, India.

     
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    Views of Himalayan snow peaks. Barang village. Family at Shoang camp. Baspa cliffs. 'Coolies' at the Hiranghati camp. Rhododendrons and cairns on pass. Sarhan village. Paunda roadside shelter under an enormous old elk tree. Loading mules at Rupi. ...

     
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    Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Hope Fountain, near Bulawayo, South Rhodesia, training girls and women for community service. Features missionary teachers Miss Ross and Miss Read.

     
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    Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at Inyati, near Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia - a Model Native Training Institution with Boys Boarding School and a Practising School.

     
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    Imperial Airways biplane lands. English dignitaries climbing out. The biplane in a field; people surround it. Pan of exterior of Umaid Bhawan Palace with scaffolding. Another biplane landing in a field.

    No titles. An Imperial Airways biplane (G- ...

     
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    Gifford Collection

    Domestic family scenes (home and seaside) in the U.K. in the 1930s. London traffic in late 1930s. Ship ocean voyage. Gibraltar from the sea. Shot of ship 'Queen Elizabeth'.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection belonged to ...

     
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    Williamson Collection

    1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.

    23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.

    Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an around Gantok residency. 10.04 2. Gyantse and west Tibet. 11.20 3. Gantok residency in Sikkim, 1931-2. 4. Ha and Paro ...

     
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    Roach Collection

    Castle Films production showing 'pigmies' constructing a complex and very large rope bridge across a river. Very probably Uganda: shot of Ruwenzori mountains at close? NB: not by Roach.

     
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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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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
  • SCENES IN INDIA AND BURMA
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...

     
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    Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...