Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...
Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...
Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author Reginald Teague Jones OBE, who changed his name to Sinclair after his alleged involvement in the ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
Amateur footage of various scenes in Malaysia.
Devil dancing in Singapore. Shots of a family and fishing scenes. The watch tower at Malacca. Brief shots of the region of Johore including, the river ferry at Maur (Muar), the causeway ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his mother is killed by a lion, who grows up with the Sheikh's son, Nikitu.
A local woman leaves her baby while collecting ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law Errol Hinds.
The film opens with women dancing in a London club. A man walks across the floor and approaches Major ...
Leisure, ceremonial, and celebrations in British Honduras, including a regatta and cricket matches. Followed by plantation work and bridge construction.
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Clearing forest for banana plantation. Cultivation (including air spraying of crops) and harvesting and transportation of the crop to the port for export to Europe. Loading of ocean freighters and ocean voyage (including stop at ...
ACTUALITY. Hunting tigers in north India.
Hunters travelling on elephants to a rendezvous from which the elephants advance in a line. A leopard is shot, then a tiger [actual shooting is not seen]; both dead animals are lashed on top of an ...
ACTUALITY. Two tigers, photographed from a tree, prowl along a river bed and lie down in the water (154ft).
Troops parading. A large residence with bi-plane flying overhead and around bay.
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. Johnston, a District Officer in the United Provinces in the late 1920s and 1930s. Archive ...
Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan. Gymkhana/Pony Race meeting. Potter at his wheel. Visit by RAF biplanes to mountain airstrip . European spectators. Promenade deck of Ocean ...
Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan.Suspension bridges across deep mountain gorges. Horse riding expeditions in the snow mountains. Tribal gathering with folk dancing.; warrior ...
Shot in Gilgit on the River Indus, in the mountainous area of what is now northern Pakistan. People of Tented settlement in Alpine valley. Moutain men (Tibetains ?) in long coats and daggers posing for photographs and eating. Pack ...
22 reels of footage short by Mark Tully and his sisters in India from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. Footage includes numerous scenes of leisure (golf), family footage, and film taken in locations including Sikkim, Calcutta, and Puri. ...
Family leave in Norfolk. Voyage to India. Stromboli. Port Suez. Quayside scenes. Indus bridge? (Large iron girders) near Peshawar. Scenery of Khyber Pass with road, railway, frontier posts and forts. Rocky mountains.
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Port Said harbour and its waterfront. Shipping ready to enter Suez Canal.
European Weddings in India. Bridal procession. Outdoor reception. Foxhunt gathers for the start of the hunt. The lakes of Kashmir. The craft on the water. ...
Colonial bungalow. Garden and servants. Marching brass military band. Tennis match at bungalow. Street scenes. Rural life & husbandry. Oil drilling field. Heavy snow fall in Pakistani Hill town. Polo match.
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Tourist trip around sites of Delhi. Rural life. Imperial Airways aircraft on ground . Working then housed in hangar. Train journey to Bombay where Ocean liner is boarded with views of docks and city sea front. Aden sea front. Tea party ...
Karakhoram hillstation. Muree. Scenery of Himalayan foothills with their Pine forests and hill roads. Domestic life. Bungalow. Garden. Flowers. Baby playing. Ayahs and outdoor servants. Ayahs take babies in prams for walk. Oil fields ...
Depicts work of London Missionary Society at the Union Boys' High School at Bishnupur, near Calcutta, India.
A settler arrives at Mombasa and proceeds by lorry to his future home. The film shows his first herd of cattle, horses, and sheep, and his first harvest.
'The prospective settler lands at Mombasa' and the film then follows his ...
Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes in Benares; Nicola's wedding; Lucknow races.
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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 ...
The Donaldson family moving into the Collector's House at Aligarh, mid 1930s; fishing; country race meeting and fairground; preparing to move the Collector's camp; gardening, extensive bazaar sequence.
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Cinemagazine on cocoa production in Tobago.
"Photographics Present...Cocoa". A waterfall in Tobago, in the British West Indies. The history of the cocoa bean. Men knock pods from trees, women put them ...
DRAMA. The whites working a rubber plantation in West africa slowly collapse under the multiple strains that their life-style imposes.
Rl.1. Introduction about the effect of damp rot in West Africa (50ft). On a rubber plantation in ...
Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans on beach with dogs. "INDIA - THE SEA MAY BE A BARRIER OR A BRIDGE" "INDIA---BRITAIN THE SEA SEPERATES ...
Depicts work of the London Missionary Society at Hope Fountain, near Bulawayo, South Rhodesia, training girls and women for community service. Features missionary teachers Miss Ross and Miss Read.
Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society at Inyati, near Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia - a Model Native Training Institution with Boys Boarding School and a Practising School.
Depicts life at mission schools in Samoa, including Papuata Girls' High School, Leulumoega Fou Boys' High School, Malua College and Atauloma Girls' High School.
Quasi-official detailed guided tour of the Colony of Gibraltar with informative intertitles.
Production / Donor Details: Major Wilfred Theodore Blake (1894-1968) was a pioneer aviator, author and traveller.
Amateur footage showing British life style, local people and shots of the pitch industry in Trinidad in the 1930s.
1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.
23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.
Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an around Gantok residency. 10.04 2. Gyantse and west Tibet. 11.20 3. Gantok residency in Sikkim, 1931-2. 4. Ha and Paro ...
A colonial sports day in India (probably in Jodphur), an obstacle race, bicycle race and motor car race. An airfield with a biplane.