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 ...
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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Various views of life in India: street scenes, camping, acrobatics, elephant ride and rural life. Includes an excellent sequence of fishermen beating the water with long poles and retreiving the catch with scoop nets while balancing on ...
Roorkie?: Engineering Training School (could be Knox School?) and Engineering Corps recruit training and regimental sports:
Playing polo. Gymkhana with trick and formation riding, various jolly games, band playing. Swimming in ...
Views in Uttar Pradesh including Roorkee and Hardwar: rivers, countryside, buildings and town scenes. Also houses, bungalows and gardens built for the British.
Production / Donor Details: This collection was shot by Brigadier Cecil ...
Sea voyage from Bombay(?) in the P&O liner Stratheden: embarkation and safety drills; off-loading and oiling at Aden(?); passage along the Suez canal; busy scenes at Port Said including good scenes of the 'Bum boats', and arrival in ...
Scenes from Elisabeth Morrison's young childhood with her family in the family bungalow in Northern Nigeria.
Production / Donor Details: The films in the Morrison Collection were shot by William Graham Morrison, who went to ...
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 ...
Four reels on VHS: reel 1. Packing up car for journey to Sirenugar(sic)...the poplar tree approach...Indians sawing up logs...picnic...Views of Gulmerg. Reel
2: Views of Srenugar(sic)...Guest House No.3...Indian Village... ...
India late 1930s or early 1940s, urban street life and European and Indian seaside beach life, including a short sequence of Gandhi walking with a small group of followers towards the shore.
Ship passage to India. Arrival. Train journey inland. Army manoeuvres with camel troops, parade sequence. Aftermath of big train wreck and the subsequent recovery operations. Formal opening of railway line by Maharaja, inspection of ...
Travel shots of journey through Bengal(?) province showing river scapes /river traffic. Europeans taking part in a fun sports open air event in front of Indian soldiers. Detailed views of the new city of New Delhi and contrasts with ...
