Amateur film. Manipuri hockey, wrestling and dancing at Imphal including Kabui Nagas dance and Angami Nagas performed by either Maoor Maram villagers to celebrate King George V's Silver Jubilee.
Amateur film. Manipuri hockey, wrestling and dancing at Imphal including Kabui Nagas dance and Angami Nagas performed by either Maoor Maram villagers to celebrate King George V's Silver Jubilee.
Footage documenting various event surrounding the 1935 restoration of the Ashanti Confederation. (Kumasi city?) Coronation of the Ashantihene or King of kings: Inter title "Ceremony in connection with the restoration of The Ashanti ...
Journey from Liverpool to Takeradi, Gold Coast. Departure of Liner from the landing stage at Liverpool Docks England shot from the ship and showing the details of the landing station with the Liver Buildings in the background. Tugs ...
Ceremonies surrounding the restoration of the Ashanti Confederation 31 January 1935. Substantially repeat Jackson Collection 1.
Production / Donor Details: Donor's grandfather, Sir Francis Walter F Jackson was Chief Commissioner ...
Colour sequences from reel 1: the Ashantehene ceremony. Crowds at large Durbar Ashanti tribal gathering. The manhandling of the "Golden Stool". The parade through the crowds of those carrying the tribal symbols of Authority. The ...
William Carey, the missionary, is seen offering himself at the Kettering meeting for work in India. By the use of two maps, the extension of the mission work since his landing in 1793 to the present day is shown.
Military parade for the celebration of King's Birthday 1933. March past of Indian troops. Military vehicles drive past. 3 cheers by troops. Visit of King of Greece to Chaklala Military Camp in 1935. King's tour of inspection with ...
Story of three comrades in arms in the wars of the North-West Frontier in 18th century India.
Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.
Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 ...
To India by air 1934; Army in India; Wateringbury 1935
Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major Harry Lewis-Barned, who served in the army in India in the 1930s, and by Mr John Lewis-Barned, who served as an Assistant ...
Resettlement of Palestine by Jews; sudden death in automobile accidents; prohibition; trans Pacific airways.
Record of journey made by Reverend G.E. Hickman Johnson and his wife to see work being done by missionaries in Jamaica and British Honduras(now Belize). Churches and schools observed, as well as economic life of these areas.
The reel consists of numerous shots, with occasional intertitles, in no particular order, including the following (but see notes): (B&W) Amphibious exercise at Slapton Sands, Devon - light vehicles drive on to the beach ...
Amateur film. Monkey dance in Kuki village in Manipur State Assam.
Amateur footage shot in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, showing how the mine and the community have developed since 1930
Amateur film with titles, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records Indian life and monuments in Multan (Punjab), Karachi, Taj Mahal (Agra) and Delhi.
"Date picking colony ...
Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India. The road to Amber; women at a well; the market; the Palace; the Bazaar; bathing; well with bullocks drawing water; camel and donkey; women spinning; the Craster family at Jotwara; polo at Jaipur, ...
Film taken in Malta by Lord Mountbatten on Noel Coward's camera.
The film shows Lady Mountbatten, the Honourable Mrs Richard Morton (afterwards Lady Grantley), Junie Heywood-Lonsdale and possibly Desmond Dryer. Noel ...
Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), shows summer cruise to Norway and scenes of military life in Northern India, including British soldiers entraining, purifying water from canal, ...
Amateur footage of a trip from Madagascar to Pemba Island.
The film opens in colour with a French steamer leaving Madagascar at Majunga, showing crowded deck scenes and a dhow pulls away from the boat. The film then changes to black ...
Filmed from the front of a car. English men and women on horses chase a pig with spears. Pig stuck with spears.
Carving wooden pillows. Cutting a suitable branch - a forked section - which is measured, shaped with axe and adze and finally with a knife. The wood is left to dry, then rubbed with butter and heated over the fire. Final smoothing and ...
Descriptive of the life on the island, as lived by the present-day survivors of the mutineers from HMS Bounty.
Pottery making methods among the Bimal tribe at Danana, Somaliland.
Dry clay is collected and pounded and sifted to make a fine grit. Wet clay is carried back to the village. The clay is mixed with the grit and fine sand and puddled ...