Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.

Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.

Small Indian boy with his snake charming act.

Bombay with street market and attention to roadside shrine.

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Port Said harbour. Royal Navy sailors visiting the Sphinx. The anchorage at Aden. Bombay bay and harbour. Race course with race meeting. Visit to the historic sites of Old Delhi. Indian rural railway station.

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Race horse meeting at the Bombay Race Course(?). Formal grand wedding or ceremony at a Trade Fair? Procession with Indian Boy Scouts providing a marching band.

Horse show in the grounds outside the Red Fort of Delhi with ...

Informal sequences with The Resident and guests in garden of Mysore Residency with foot balling Bishop. The Resident makes tour of inspection up country meets local guard of honour.

Production / Donor Details: These cine films ...

Local people and coastal scenes on the Gold Coast around Elmina.

Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.

Detailed exploration of the Red Fort at Agra with close attention to the architectural features. Distant views of the Taj Mahal framed in windows of Red Fort.

Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John ...

Delhi and Quitab. Detailed scenes of the Red Fort. Humayun Mausoleum, Kwat-Ul-Mosque, Kitb Minar. Lodi Tomb. Views of exterior of Holy Temple at Amristar.

Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John ...

Kashmir. Formal gardens of Mogul lakeside palace. Ornate flowers;orchards. Houseboats moored at the lake. Canal trade. Town scape of lake side town. Outdoor potter working with his wheel Grand lady memsahib inspecting her large garden ...

Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo (1933-1938) covers British Imperial Airways Hannibal, construction of dam at Jabal Awliya, White Nile, Sudan ...

Reel 1: "Shall Mills, TPT and Camp". Camel and mule transport. Ambulance truck. Two British officers in solar topees.

Reel 2: "Shall Mills and Tennis, Pishin" (ie Baluchistan). Camel transport. ASD (DSA) on mountainside. Playing tennis. [Film ...

Reel 8: "Well at Jhak. Shelabagh" (ie Baluchistan) Indians irrigate using cows to draw water from well. Volley ball.

Reel 9: "Srinagar, Kashmir" Tourist scenes of lake and river traffic.

Reel 10: "Barrack building, Wana" (ie Waziristan) ...

Reel 17: "Shall Mills, Troops and TPT" Indians practise wrestling. Military encampment. Camel transport train.

Reel 18: "11/4th GR Recruits' PT" Indian recruits do PT and learn rifle drill. (Captain Reed was administrative Commandant of 11/4th ...

Reel 26: "Pipe band and sports" Indian turbaned troops parade and play pipes. Colonel Hamlin (?, tall bald officer) attends regimental sports day.

Reel 27: "Moplah acrobatics" (ie South India) Muslim men in distinctive white dress perform ...

Incomplete (professionally made?) record of a trip to Brazil by the Graf Zeppelin airship and thence to Chile via Argentina by aeroplane.

The film, taken mostly on board the airship, shows its progress from the ...

Amateur film by unidentified cameraman, with intertitles, records various cavalry events by the Bombay Light Horse (an Indian Army reserve regiment) on the flat and over fences, including Section Jumping, the Lamba Kan Stakes, tent-pegging (Symons' ...

Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.

The film shows several of the Camps at which the Frontier troops were based, including Mansai, Jandola, Sorarogha and ...

Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.

The film begins by showing a practice parachute supply drop and there then follows a sequence showing a convoy of ...

Scenes in the life of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. Film shows Indian Army (Bengal Sappers & Miners) life: training: drill and bayonet practice; marching; bridge building (good shots); constructing a drystone building; shots of ...

Pageant -St Georges & The Dragon. Sports day. Races. Tug of war. Egg and Spoon race. Demonstration of lorry assembly by Indian mechanics. Oil derricks. Camel train and Indian Frontier crossing.

Production / Donor Details: These ...

Bidding farewell to servants & friends in India. Sea jouney home. Port & town of Aden. Passage through the Suez Canal. Shipping in the canal. Shoreside views from the ship. Tour of Port Said & its momuments. Marsailles city scape ...

Trials at Chakala Military Testing Ground of Armoured Cars/Light tanks which cross over rough terrain at speed and ford rivers. Trials of large armoured personal carrier pulling big field gun. Large gathering of observing English ...

Flowering trees in streets in central Bombay streets around the Victoria Terminus..

Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John Hamilton Bernard Peyton (Indian Army).

Life at Naini Tal.

Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady Kendall, wife of Sir Charles Kendall, in Allahabad, Benares, Naini Tal, Lucknow and England. The second ...