Rafai fakirs performing rituals - dislocation of eyeball and skewering of neck, cheeks and head.

Melodrama of the love of an English society woman and a high caste doctor in India during natural disasters and epidemics.

Amateur film. Manipuri sword dance; old maharajah's palace; Bone ceremony; Rathjatra procession.

Amateur film shot by Miss L W Chadwick and her niece Miss Betty Chadwick (later Mrs Ryle-Wright) while travelling from Red Sea to East Africa (game reserve animals) before arriving at Mr A V Chadwick's dairy farm "Windermere" near Vryburg in ...

Amateur film showing a picnic in Anglesey and the political officers' Residency, Jaipur.

Fay and June bathing at Jaipur, 1940. Horse riding in grounds of Residency. Picnicing on Anglesey beach. Jaipur residency gardens in 1939. The Hindustan- ...

Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape Colony.

Rhodes of Africa was the first screen biography of Cecil Rhodes. Four previous attempts to ...

AMATEUR FILM. Rice planting and growing in the New Territories from ploughing to harvesting.

Ploughing the field with oxen. Woman ploughing a field. Women planting rice. Harvesting and stacking rice. Ploughing fields.

Amateur footage of rice and rubber cultivation and a religious festival.

Shots of rice cultivation. A forest fire and its aftermath, possibly clearing land for a rubber plantation. Scenes at a rubber plantation, inlcuding tapping for latex and ...

INTEREST. The ruins of Zimbabwe. Close-up of African native, shot of a native beating a drum as commentary states that many natives have remained as primitive as when the white man first found them (61-103). Extract from the silent ...

Propaganda cartoon. After poor service from the garages of Ramsay MacDonald & Co. and Llloyd George & Co., John Bull takes his car to Baldwin's Prosperity Garage, where he is given the right fuel: a mixture of Empire unity, safeguarding and reduced ...

Life on a road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

Main title and credits (48). Bullock and camel carts on a country road in India (124). Travelling shot from road of Muslim hermitage. Ground view -The hermitage ...

Amateur footage of an African village (probably Mufulira) built for factory workers. Sanitation conditions, European housing and recreation facilities

Travelogue of India; edited from material supplied by the Government of India.

Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter showing the work of the Bible Churchman's Missionary Society's (B.C.M.S.) mission in Kachwa: surgical operations; treating a horse; patients being transported in ricksaws; nurses in ...

Information film about manufacture of tea by CWS. Includes footage from their plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the CWS Westhall factory and the CWS Leman Street tea warehouse. Begins with a dramatic sequence depicting a young man and his father ...

General views of Ceylon, its people and the production of tea.

Home movie of the Rowntree family on tour in Africa.

A mixture of reenactment and newsreel footage depicting events in Britain and the Empire during the reign of King George V, linked by a freshly minted penny in 1911 passing through the hands of numerous characters throughout the period. A ...

The production of rubber.

The preparation of nurseries. Budgrafting at one year old, extracting, trimming and inserting a bud patch. The budgraft six months later. Tapping a young tree. Bringing in and checking latex, coagulating latex, machining ...

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

Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records contrasting activities of British and Indians in India: Indian watering lawn from hide sack, cow cart along "Chapel Road", British men ...

This is a personal film record of a visit to mainly Nigeria but touching on Sierra Leone and other ports of call. The visitor shows us views of people, European and African, and their habitat and other surroundings encountered on his ...

Castle Films production showing 'pigmies' constructing a complex and very large rope bridge across a river. Very probably Uganda: shot of Ruwenzori mountains at close? NB: not by Roach.

INTEREST. Voyage through the Mediterranean, special emphasis on Royal Navy ships in the sea.

r.1 Shots of the sea and coasts representing Ulysses' voyage northward from the Mediterranean (72). The S.S. "Ionian" in the bay of Gibraltar on her ...