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 ...
Documentary on the city of Petra. Traces four civilisations, each of which found value in re-establishing the life of this city, whose temples and dwellings were shaped out of the caves in the cliff of a mountain range in the heart of the ...
Cape Town, Durban and the Victoria Falls in Rhodesia.
Filmed from the front of a car. English men and women on horses chase a pig with spears. Pig stuck with spears.
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 ...
Reel 1:
00:00 Pan on deck of ship, presumably the SS Duchess of Richmond, a church service (commemorative?) is held. Some of the ships officers are attending and a number of civilian men are wearing medals.
00:08 Ashore a large party of ...
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.
Trinidad; its products and the people who work on the plantations.
INTEREST. Travelogue and promotional film for the island of Bermuda.
Main title and credits (37). LS `Queen of Bermuda' liner leaving harbour of New York (New York skyline not seen) (53). Closer view of the liner as it sails past (77). ...
SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL CUSTOMS
A polo match probably played in Jodphur, India.
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 ...
Pottery making methods among the Eile tribe at Gelib, Somaliland.
The potter and his wife. The woman puddles the clay. The man makes the pots on a simple wheel, shaping the top part first from sausages of clay. The walls are shaped ...
"Every year on the two days preceding Ash Wednesday, Dominica gives itself up to the spirit of Carnival".
Amateur film showing a procession of elephants in silver-plated armour in Jaipur; women spinning; the road to Amber; scenes of the Craster family at Jotwara including a Sikh orderly; John McLeod Campbell at Galta; sacred monkeys; a fakir; ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of sugar and coffee in Kenya
Credits (6). A man spoons brown sugar into his coffee cup (26). "Do you know that the sugar you put into your coffee cup is an Empire product? Sugar cane is a member of the ...
Pygmies of the Central African rain forest; aspects of their way of life - domestic, hunting, and bartering.
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM. An expedition through the Borneo jungle to a pygmy settlement. All the `pygmies' smoke, including children from the age of seven.
No main title. "It was strictly for purposes of scientific study that we went to Borneo ...
Rangoon, Mandalay, Penang Funeral', 1930s
Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
"The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The Residency, Mastung". Panned shot right to left across rubble of the Residency, turbaned Indian visible in remaining ...
Amateur film of British bombing raids in the Northwest Frontier, near Afghanistan.
A view of a Hawker Hart (India) (K-2120) in flight, filmed from an adjacent aircraft. The aircraft drops a bomb. Brief shot of the ...
Amateur film shot by Pilot Officer Normand Littlejohn while serving with RAF 17 Squadron as a Pilot Officer in 1931, then as Flying Officer with RAF 203 Flying Boat Squadron in Iraq Command from 1932-1935 records ground and flying activity in Britain ...
Rafai fakir group performs rituals in private palace courtyard, Hyderabad.
