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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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 ...
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 ...
Scenes showing work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Sequence of shots of exterior of gold mine. Men with large dead snake. Sequence of very good group and individual posed shots of local people in traditional costume.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley ...
Scenes include work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Various sporting scenes - tennis, sailing, an African sports event with colonial spectators. Includes sack race, bicycle race, women in running race carrying pots on heads.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter ...
Lewis-Barned children in garden of the family bungalow at Bangalore. Playing with cart. Pony riding. Memsabib riding side saddle. Maharaja of Mysore. State Procession and Court Audience. King's Birthday Parade, Secunderabad. ( ...
Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards; Children in English garden domestic scenes at Sheringham, Norfolk. Dingy Sailing race competition at Secunderabad near to Hyderabad and presentation of prizes. Visit of Lord Willingdon, ...
Amateur footage showing British life style, local people and shots of the pitch industry in Trinidad in the 1930s.