I. "FIGHTING FOURTH WELCOMED HOME". At Karachi, Fourth Division return home after over six years of active service in the Mediterranean theatre. II. "FIELD PUBLICITY ORGANIZATION'S GREAT PROGRESS". At Bombay, mobile cinema ...
I. "THE CABINET MISSION ARRIVES IN INDIA". The Cabinet Mission arrive to try and break the political deadlock in India. The group is made up of Lord Patrick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. A.V. Alexander. II. " ...
I. "DEWAS SENIOR CELEBRATES VICTORY ON RULER'S VICTORY" Maharajah of Dewas presides at his own Durbar accompanied by the nobles and dignitaries of the state, and by his heir apparent, the Yuvaraja, who receives Atar Pan from ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn the villagers against the nuns. Finally Sister Ruth becomes mad and attacks the mother superior only to bring about her own ...
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. Gandhi and entourage walking along in wooded surroundings. They cross a bridge and enter a village where they are ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include HYDERABAD TODAY NEWS IN BRIEF FRIENDSHIP CARGO LEAVES AMERICA BELGIAN CROSS COUNTRY RACE HAIFA HOLLAND TOYS AND JOYS FOR THE KIDDIES CEYLON PARLIAMENT LONDON'S NEW TUBE ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS... MALTA PARIS MALAYA'S GIFT TO ROYAL COUPLE
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE TO CLOSE FEN GAP FAREWELL TO THE NEW VICEORY (LORD AND LADY MOUNTBATTEN LEAVE FOR INDIA) (DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ARRIVES BACK IN LONDON) TRIBESMEN ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA DRAWS TEST WITH ENGLAND INDIA ACCEPTS THE PLAN KING ABDULLAH IN JERUSALEM TUDOR MINSTREL FAILS
Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.
The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.
On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram Militia on the North-West Frontier records social and military activity, and the landscape, between August 1946 and ...
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A fishing trip by canoe on the River Barak (?): Indian porters on a bridge, scenes from the canoe (38). A European in shorts and topi stand by a fish held up by an ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary Force, attached to 11th Infantry Brigade, records the eastward movement of Hindu refugees across the ...
Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.
Bullock carts arrive at the market of Lakhmijian ('Garden of the River Goddess') near the Assam River where Naga ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...
Episodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a book by Rumer Godden.
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot Mundy.
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for an English soldier and the love offered her by a young Sikh, as well as another Anglo-Indian.
Bhowani Junction ...Seeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and the latter is commissioned under false pretences to build a tomb where Seeta will be buried alive ...
Architect Herald Berger is commissioned as advisor to Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur. He becomes involved with Seeta, an Indian dancer who Chandra wishes to marry. In a jealous rage he has Berger cast into the ...
Set in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of tension between the Moslems and Hindus. A rebel Moslem faction is seeking to kill the six year old son of the ruling Hindu ...
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves and murderers.
The following statement regarding the story prior to the opening credits: 'For hundreds of years ...
