A ceremonial procession of elephants and carriages in a crowded street.

Children fancy dress preparation. Tennis party at Simla. Muttra Junction and Indian railway journey. Bombay city scape. Red Sea voyage. Gulf of Suez and the Suez canal.

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The voyage of troopship SS Navasa through Suez Canal to India. Busy harbours with commercial shipping. Suez Canal. Life on Board. Deck games etc.

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May's Wedding (Military/Society Wedding). Guests arrive for Anglican church wedding. Interior of Chuch with wedding congregation. Departure of Bride and groom. Large reception. Staging of formal photographs Departure of couple in car ...

The film shows Indian towns and villages, and highlights the production of silk, wheat, rice, sugar and jute.

The film opens with a map of India, which a title introduces as the 'land of Mosques and Temples' and as the 'land of ...

The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.

Car Journey from Rawpindi to Bombay. Views of Indore, Tapeti ferry crossing, Nasik, Beach Candy, Lido resort, swimming lessons for the baby. Young boy soldiers marching along wintery English lane. Large family reunion in England ...

Indian festival of Banpati at Chowpatty, Bombay. Street processions with images of gods carried aloft. Riverside crowds entering waters. Committal of the images to the sea. Crowds celebrating in the sea with the images. 'The Coconut ...

Shots with captions of: the Khyber Pass; Fort Jamrud; Shaghai Fort; Ali Masjid Gaugle; Supply depot at Landikotal & Fort; Gorge & mountain roads; railway and scenery; Afghan Boarder Post; operations against the Afridis; the Army ...

AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.

The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta (21). Plane refueling (47). Aerial views and Indians gathered around plane (61). Arrival of plane at Jodhpor, people ...

Amateur film of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

1: Delhi Horse Show , 1929.

2: New Zealand bush shots.

3: Simla: monkeys and beagling, 1931(?).

4: Simla: dead panther and moving house, 1931.

5: Simla: Scenes in the snow, 1931.

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A record of a journey made by motor car from Iran, across desert country and alo ng the mountainous roads of Central Asia to India.

A London schoolboy dreams he visits Buckingham Palace, where he makes the King's Christmas pudding from ingredients collected from different parts of the British Empire.

A boy washes and gets ready for school, noting over breakfast ...

Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans on beach with dogs. "INDIA - THE SEA MAY BE A BARRIER OR A BRIDGE" "INDIA---BRITAIN THE SEA SEPERATES ...

Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.

Filmed by an officer in one of the Gurkha regiments. Views over the Sylhet Plain taken in the Khasi Hills. The ropeway by ...

Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.

Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box in which film came to Archive, but not known if this relates to this particular film.

Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).

"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."

"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of Royal procession along Aldwych (0.09). Ground view of arrival of royal landau at India House. King George ...

Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.

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 ...