UNSLEEPING EYE 1928
Made in New Guinea by a Scottish company, the film combines elements of the jungle adventure with the travelogue.
Made in New Guinea by a Scottish company, the film combines elements of the jungle adventure with the travelogue.
Amateur film showing sugar cane growing in India.
AMATEUR. Amateur film showing the River Ganges and countryside scenes in India.
The Ganges canal. Canal scenes. River diverted. Hydro-electric power station. Irrigation - water wheel turned by oxen and men lifting buckets. Ox driven carts and ...
Miscellaneous amateur film of India. Includes scenes in Simla - Annandale mountains. The Mall Viceregal Lodge. Local acrobat. Nagpanchuri wrestling competition. Sambhur hunting at Shikar. Elephant beaters. The arrival of the Maharajah Kumar. Guard of ...
Deserted city of Fatehpur, shots around and about including white marble tomb of Salim Christi. Sir Malcolm Hailey, the governor of the Punjab, at Chini. Repairing road for the visit. Carving out stone to widen cliff-top road. Celebration at Pangi ...
Unfinished film of the visit of King Amanullah and Queen Surayya of Afghanistan to Britain, 13th March-3rd April 1928.
The film is partially completed, and shows some signs of proper editing, but scenes may break off ...
NEWSFILM. Crowds and procession in Hyde Park for Empire Day (61ft).
The horse race.
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of the railway builders.
Main title (15). A map of the route (44-57). View from Table Mountain (69-79). Pan of Cape Town ...
ANIMATION. Stop-frame puppet animation. Snap the Gingerbread Man goes hunting in Africa and is chased by a lion.
"Snap the Gingerbread Man in `WILDEST AFRICA'. Produced by Kinex Studios Hollywood" (3). Snap the ...
Amateur film of a journey to India via the Suez Canal, of people and life taken in India, 1929.
The film opens with a shot of a cathedral and the Suez canal. Boys dive for coins and activity on board ship on the way out to India is ...
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 ...