British gentlemen exhibit their prize stallions as if for sale and they are inspected on open downland.

Long camel caravan train passing along mountainous road near Frontier post on Afghan frontier.

Production / ...

Army camp with British army officers waiting for 'The Off.' Armoured Car exercises & inspection. Meeting of two tribal clanleaders at Clan gathering with pipe band.

Trek into the outback by party with Memsahibs on horseback ...

Great sport with pet dogs in the lawned garden of official residence (Mysore?).

Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician Tam Dalyell, during ...

The grounds of the Residence at Mysore where much sport is made with dogs. Bathing the dogs in the fountains. Kicking dogs the football etc. Good shots of the Residence and its grounds.

Production / Donor Details: These cine ...

INTEREST - Travelogue. The film opens with a shot of two men in the Punjab stacking sheaves of wheat (58-70); a farmer sets off to market (81-100); Rawal Pindi from a distance (104-120); firewood cutters loading up wood for ...

Prince of Wales' tour of India in 1921-1922, including the opening of the Delhi Durbar (16/2/1922) and a visit to Calcutta December 1921.

"Patna. The President of the Council asks permission of HRH to open the Durbar".

"The Prince declares ...

"Madras. Review of the Leinster Regiment at Fort St George. Three cheers for HRH, their Colonel-in-Chief". Prince of Wales inspects troops.

"Typical scenes in a native village in Madras". Two women look at camera. A woman dancing. Pan of village. ...

The Prince of Wales' trip to India in 1922.

"After the ceremony the Prince returns to Government House". In motorcade.

"Peshawar. The City of Peshawar - the Postern Gate of the Khyber Pass". Slow pan of rooftops.

"A ride through the ...

INTEREST. Archaeological dig in Egypt and exhibits at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Archaeological dig in progress: Egyptians working under supervision of ?Europeans, palm trees in background (12). A camel train leaving the site, ...

9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of the Nile. Esvah barrage/dam. Coming down the Nile from Luxor, views of the banks and boats ...

Travelogue. Commander Glen Kidston's trip to Africa, including a safari and a visit to a plantation.

No titles. LS of docks and large cranes (3). MCU of man reading `Photography for the Amateur' and smiling at the camera (17). A ...

Drama of kidnapping and intrigue set against an Indian background.

Empire Day celebrations - children salute the Union Flag.

"EMPIRE DAY: Children's celebrations at Buckingham Street School, King's Cross" (8). Mid shot of children dressed as warriors in an Empire day procession - girls with Union Jacks as skirts and a boy carrying a shield ...

Schoolschildren celebrating Empire Day (50ft).

"H.R.H. the Duke of York takes the salute in Hyde Park". Shot from behind the Duke of York as he salutes one of the sections marching past in the background.` Brigade and Standard bearers of the Girls' Life Brigade and the ...

One of Uganda's native kings salutes the Union Jack during an Empire Day ceremony in South Africa. Film supplied by J.Y.T.A. [?] (58ft).

The Empire Premiers inspect the airship R.33 and its mooring post (96ft).

The Empire Premiers opn HMS 'Revenge' witness a mock battle and naval display at sea. (Mackenzie King and William Cosgrave did not attend) (149ft).

Note. There is a large amount of off-cut material for this item. ...

EN ROUTE FOR ENGLAND Hirohito, Crown Prince of Japan, arriving in Gibraltar. Filmed by Hutchins (65ft).

Amateur film showing road engineering in India.

DOCUMENTARY. Extract showing scenes of an African native funeral, in which women dance around the seated corpse (43-162); a montage of the dancing women (191 ft).

INTEREST. A 1924 works outing for employees of Pullars of Perth to the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, the Cenotaph, and Westminster Abbey.

"THE EXCURSION TO WEMBLEY OF EMPLOYEES OF Pillars of Perth THE FAMOUS CLEANERS AND DYERS." (12). " ...

Cartoon adventure, in which Felix plays golf. He's shot overseas on a jet of water and ends up in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to devour him.

Marking and measuring trees in Wadang forest. Moving camp across rough country in Pandra Bis (very dark). Felling and sawing work in the Deodar and Pine Forests. Squaring logs before sawing. Sawing work and children playing. Fishing out large logs from ...

TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Fiji.

British Screen Classics logo (10). Pan of shoreline, bay and steep hill (14-36). Three sailing outriggers in a bay; Fijians set sail (41-52). MCU travelling shot over prow and outrigger cutting through sea (58-77). ...

INTEREST - Travelogue. Shots of jungle, river, waterfalls and sea in Fiji (40); thatched huts built on stilts over a river, a man punting a canoe along, children and dogs on the platforms over the river (80); boy feeding a pig on a ...

INSTRUCTIONAL. Opens with views of mountains and coastline (67), a stream crossed by a wooden bridge and fringed with luxuriant vegetation (105) and an old Fiji warrior with his war club (134). Views of Suva from above ...

Empire premiers at Cambridge University, including Mackenzie King of Canada, and the Maharajah of Burdan (44ft).

MS. Looking up at lioness on large rock (5). MCU. Two lionesses looking out over a rock (11). "A truly unusual lion's den! A rocky refuge from the blazing sun!" LS. Huge rocks. Lions underneath (16). Closer shot of two lionesses looking ...

Documentary on the colony of Hong Kong.

I. Newsreel item on General Pershing and the US Army of Occupation, in Britain on its way home, October 1921.

I. A troopship carrying Lieutenant-General John Pershing and US soldiers comes into Dover harbour, where ...

Newsreel compilation of stories shot between May 1923 and August 1923.

"TIDWORTH TATTOO Musical Ride by the 12th Lancers." (31st July 1923 1290 (3)) (4). [No picture]. Gaumont Logo (5). "ENGLAND'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL. Head Master ...

Includes tower at the festival of Jagannath in Puri.

Includes the item 'West Africa in England'.

TRAVELOGUE. Section from a film detailing a journey from Gibraltar and through Africa (?).

No main title. Travelling shot passing the harbour of Gibraltar (17). Location map of Gibraltar (24). Travelling shot of dhow with coastline in background ...

INTEREST - Travelogue. Scenes of Indian life and architecture.

RL.1 Seas breaking on the rocks at Cape Comorin (58-89); the Afghan end of the Khyber Pass (106-182); sentries on guard (233); a camel caravan (332); map ...

The construction of the Takoradi harbour near Sekondi.

"A GOLD COAST ROMANCE - Police Corporal Williams and his dusky bride, from the Exhibition native village, married at St. Johns Church, Wembley" (2). Williams and his wife along with their best man walk through a row of white ...

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Main title and credit (15). The Governor's entourage preceeded by a guard of honour walk from Government House along a red carpet lined with ...

Amateur film of colonial India.

The start of a hunt, with elephants and beaters (3); view from an elephant howdah (16). Various shots of wounded animals, the elephants and the beaters (47). The Governor's Durbar: pontoon bridge ...

A tour made by rail and road to India, Burma and Sikkim, by members of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons [18 cans].

Arrival Bombay - Jubbulpore November/December 1927

Sports. Building - Bombay yacht club. Station - being seen ...

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, with Lady Marie Thomas, 1st Marchioness of Willingdon.

Main title (7)). LS of the Victoria monument building, flanked by two large stone lions (16). ...

Amateur film showing everyday life in the Hunter household in Uttar Pradesh.

Mr Hnter introduces films by titles. In train nearing Meerut. Station at Meerut. Train drawing in. Porter taking up luggage from passengers. Indian railway ...

The control of hookworm disease in Kenya.

Amateur film showing the Horse Artillery and Sir Hugh Stephenson, Governor of Bihar and Orissa. Scenes include; a polo match, probably the Prince of Wales' Cup; Red Fort at Delhi; Delhi and Patna horse shows, carriages, street scenes near ...

Animated film sponsored by the Empire Marketing Board, it is designed to persuade British consumers that 'Empire Buying Begins at Home'. It promotes British grown and produced products, and provides statistics about the contribution such sales make to ...