Depicts life at mission schools in Samoa, including Papuata Girls' High School, Leulumoega Fou Boys' High School, Malua College and Atauloma Girls' High School.

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

ACTUALITY. Two tigers, photographed from a tree, prowl along a river bed and lie down in the water (154ft).

A colonial sports day in India (probably in Jodphur), an obstacle race, bicycle race and motor car race. An airfield with a biplane.

Winter quarters at Simla. The family at home - Craigdhu playground with crawling lessons for a baby (Sheila Mary?). Skating at Blessington - the pond; "S.G. does her piece" - skating moves; leapfrog. Winter at Simla 1929, Sheila at Christchurch Lodge; ...

Amateur footage of a journey through China and a visit to Hong Kong.

Rickshaws. Harbour scenes in Hong Kong (?). High level shot of harbour. A Chinese family. Street procession. Harbour scenes, junks, sounding for depth. Up river scenes. Rural ...

ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.

Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white storks swimming and fishing on a pond (66). A succession of birds of various species feeding on a patch of grass. ...

ACTUALITY. Scenes at the leper colony supported by the Baptist Missionary Society at Cuttack in Orissa province.

Two men and two women walk through a wide gate above which an arch bears the sign "Cuttack Leper Asylum 1919" and a banner reads "We ...

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 ...

India. (1926?1946?) British man pouring tea by the roadside from a flask, then climbing onto a horse and off trekking, many locals carrying sacks following through hills and villages. British woman on a horse, side-saddle (44) (c1932) On hunt through ...

Delhi fort - Lahore gate and Delhi gate, black marble elephants. Pleasure gardens of Moghal emperors; hall of audience. Friday prayers at Jumma Masjid, huge crowds in ornate square. Ferozabad, the 6th city of old Delhi, views around the ruins. Humayun ...

Bombay. Davis Road, Lahore. Canal bank, Lahore. Armistice Day Parade with ex-service men. Bathing the dog. Christmas Day in Lawrence Gardens. Lahore bazaar traffic. Small boy dancing to gramophone recording. Loading camels. Padre Gorrie's wedding - ...

Rafai fakir group performs rituals in private palace courtyard, Hyderabad.

INTEREST. The royal residence on Bolghotty Island and the town life and buildings in Cochin, India.

A polo match probably played in Jodphur, India.

Views of Himalayan snow peaks. Barang village. Family at Shoang camp. Baspa cliffs. 'Coolies' at the Hiranghati camp. Rhododendrons and cairns on pass. Sarhan village. Paunda roadside shelter under an enormous old elk tree. Loading mules at Rupi. ...

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.

Imperial Airways biplane lands. English dignitaries climbing out. The biplane in a field; people surround it. Pan of exterior of Umaid Bhawan Palace with scaffolding. Another biplane landing in a field.

No titles. An Imperial Airways biplane (G- ...

Domestic family scenes (home and seaside) in the U.K. in the 1930s. London traffic in late 1930s. Ship ocean voyage. Gibraltar from the sea. Shot of ship 'Queen Elizabeth'.

Production / Donor Details: The collection belonged to ...

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Leith Harbour; Garonda Peak; whale catcher; working at Dam; factory; oil storage tanks; view over island; reservoir.

Main title. "Squadron of British planes starts from Cape Town on 4,600 mile return trip over the jungles to Cairo" (17). LS airfield at Cape Town (27); PAN three biplanes taking off (53); MS as they fly over the camera on their way ...

INTEREST. Lumbering in New Zealand and Burma.

Titles (27). New Zealand lumberjacks felling large tree by axe, sawing trunk into sections, which are hauled away by tractor (52). A large horse team hauls a wagon loaded with a tree ...

In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an audience and shows film that he shot in Africa.

Presented as a lecture, The Professor introduces ...

AMATEUR. Scenes at the Presbyterian Church of East Africa missionary centre in Chogoria, Kenya.

No main title. "The old women find new things hard to understand - Miss Malcolm's meeting for grannies." (0.11). A number of old women ...

The film shows Indian towns and villages, and highlights the production of silk, wheat, rice, sugar and jute.

The film opens with a map of India, which a title introduces as the 'land of Mosques and Temples' and as the 'land of ...

Wildlife safari to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Portugese East Africa (Mozambique).

Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.

Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. Constantinople, loading of maize. Varna, unloading at the quay. The entrance to the Bosphorus. Quarantine station. ...

The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.

Amateur film. Reindeer; penquins with chicks; King penguins; sea elephants; Prins Olaf Haven; flensing platform; harbour scenes; making a football ground.

TRAVELOGUE. 1920s footage of African wildlife with added commentary and Ravel's Bolero.

Wildlife - zebras, ostriches; ostrich shot by man in solar topee. Visit to grave of Cecil Rhodes. Victoria Falls. African ...

The work of the Child Emigration Society in helping children from slum areas in Britain move to Australia and learn a new life. Includes slum scenes, the departure and arrival of a group of children, conditions at the Fairbridge Farm in ...