AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey across the Middle East region.
Aerial views of unidentified towns and countryside along the River Tigris, the town of Kut (91). The River Tigris and Baghdad, street scenes in Baghdad and a hall ...
Scenes from the lives of people in an African native tribe. A woman gathers up an animal hide and walks through a village accompanied by a child; a man herds cattle nearby. A small bird pecks at the ground amidst the cattle. A ...
Shows the achievements, aspirations. racial attitudes of colonial railway builders. Traces the journey from the Cape to Cairo by train, boat, Morris and native bearer.
INTEREST. Shots of the sea from the side of "S.S. Narkunda" (31). The bridge of the ship (65). The engine room (120). The bridge (142). Life boat drill (198). Shots of the sea from the side of the ship (212).
"KINGSTON, JAMAICA: A WONDERFUL WELCOME : EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WHO COULD GET THERE TURNED OUT TO GREET THE PRINCE OF WALES DURING SHORT VISIT TO JAMAICA EN ROUTE TO SOUTH AMERICA" Shots of the Prince Edward's car ...
"PALESTINE: ON THE SEA THAT OUR SAVIOUR KNEW!" "Simple peasants throng shores of Sea of Galilee. Where many stories of the Gospels were enacted. To see a flying boat (Imperial Airways) land on historic waters for ...
African jungle spectacle.
Amateur film shot by Medical Officer of the Boundary Commission. Shows British Colonial Officials travelling to Somaliland via Marseilles, Malta and the Suez Canal and arrival in Berbera. Shows camel racing with the Camel Corps and the ...
?Amateur footage: scenes on deck of H.M.S. Carlisle off Tristan da Cunha; supplies rowed shore; ship's chaplain with bridal couple; ship's doctor examining islanders; sailors signalling to ship with semaphore amd morse code.
Amateur footage of scenes in Malaysia and Singapore.
The Chenderoh Dam near Taiping, on the Perak river which feeds a hydro-electric power station. Doctor Ross and a monkey on the Caledonia Estate. The operation of a rotary oil press ...
Cameron Highlanders in Southampton (79ft).
Car Journey from Rawpindi to Bombay. Views of Indore, Tapeti ferry crossing, Nasik, Beach Candy, Lido resort, swimming lessons for the baby. Young boy soldiers marching along wintery English lane. Large family reunion in England ...
General views of Bahrain seafront and the Arial desert. Imperial Airways airliner landing. Gypsy Moth biplane at airstrip. Pilot and taking off.
Subjects include British Political Agency staff on the waterfront at Manama; take- ...
Indian festival of Banpati at Chowpatty, Bombay. Street processions with images of gods carried aloft. Riverside crowds entering waters. Committal of the images to the sea. Crowds celebrating in the sea with the images. 'The Coconut ...
Shots with captions of: the Khyber Pass; Fort Jamrud; Shaghai Fort; Ali Masjid Gaugle; Supply depot at Landikotal & Fort; Gorge & mountain roads; railway and scenery; Afghan Boarder Post; operations against the Afridis; the Army ...
Amateur film with titles shot by Major John Knyvett of 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment records historic sites in Transjordan.
Tracking shot from car crossing Allenby Bridge over River Jordan. Remains of ...
Amateur film with titles shot by Major John Knyvett of 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment records biblical and modern scenes in Palestine.
Arabs at Bethany. Sea level sign on route towards Dead Sea. Wadj el ...
Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1931.
The film follows a typical patrol by a set of scouts' platoons, carried out with the purpose of reconnoitring a road ...
Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1931.
This film shows something of the social life associated with working on the NW Frontier. Brigadier Alston lived in a ...
Sailing boats moored in harbour. Dhows at sea off Bombay. European sea fishing trip.
4 Masted clipper ship at anchor. Empress of Britain passenger liner at anchor. Bombay Yacht Club House. The Club's members racing off the ...
England & India with the Army: Tunbridge Wells, Gibralter, Ooty, Bangalore
Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major Harry Lewis-Barned, who served in the army in India in the 1930s, and by Mr John Lewis-Barned, who ...
Bidar and Hyderabad, 1931. Colour. Men and cattle at riverside. Vultures. Village life. Landscape scenes. Oxen crossing river. Musicians. Street scenes. Army officials taking tea outside a tent. Men in street bow to passing ...
Leaving India and voyage home. Andhra Pradesh countryside (?). Departing India by ship. Suez. Dhows.
Production / Donor Details: The film-maker, Michael Lloyd-Jones served in the ICS in India from 1938 - 1947.
Amateur footage of scenes in and around Simla - street scenes and rickshaws; Viceroy (Earl of Willingdon?) at Lahore station. Probably shot by Col. Taylor, Chief Engineer to North Western Railways, Lahore.
Tiger with kill filmed in Naini Tal, North East India.
Family games with hammock in Changa Manga. Shahjahanpur camp November 1931 - Children listening to gramophone; children on elephant. Weir at Jhansi. Indian nanny, Ayah, with the children. Lachiwala - goats, cattle, buffalos in pond. Picnic. Grass- ...
Cultivation in Gorakhpur Forest, rearing forest trees along with agricultural crops. Clearing roots. Different stages of crop development. Demonstration forest - measuring bamboos, removing frost covers from nursery seedbeds, measuring trunks in a ' ...
Amateur footage of activities in (?) Duars area; tiger shoot.
Picnic - families, children and dogs. Sikh Gurdwara ('God's place') inspector. Children in water. Sheila climbs a tree. Children's party at New Forest. Children playing with a pup, a toy and a tricycle. Dehra Dun bazaar scenes - firewood sales, mules, ...
AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.
The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta (21). Plane refueling (47). Aerial views and Indians gathered around plane (61). Arrival of plane at Jodhpor, people ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Malaya.
Scenes in Penang, the view of the Old Fort near the harbour, a Malay village, the Springtide Hotel with friends of the Scotts outside. Gardens in Penang and Taiping. The Enggor pontoon bridge on the River ...
Gibraltar, Port Said, Suez Canal, Aden. Ex-P&O ship 'Narkunda' to HMS Penzance. Scenes around Dehra Dun. Himalayas from Mussoori. Kashmir merchant shows his goods. Indian funeral cortege. "John Chinaman has his turn". Family scenes with a bemused ...
Amateur footage of a journey which originated in Syria showing scenes in Egypt and the return voyage home to Britain.
Luxor, street scenes, temples the Colossi and the photographer, Cuthbert Wigham. Crossing the Nile. Sakkara, crossing the desert ...
Mussooree Road through hills, with views of the bends in the road from a car. Children in lorry. At Mussooree, bazaar scenes and children in rickshaw. Sikh procession. King's birthday parade at Simla 1931 - 11th mountain battery parades, arrival of ...
Amateur film of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.
Information film about manufacture of tea by CWS. Includes footage from their plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the CWS Westhall factory and the CWS Leman Street tea warehouse. Begins with a dramatic sequence depicting a young man and his father ...
Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun - the log pond, saw mills and timber testing workshop. The Silvicultural (forestry) Museum and Botanical Herbarium. Seasoning kiln for controlling and hastening the drying of timber. Experiments of fire damage to ...
Propaganda cartoon. After poor service from the garages of Ramsay MacDonald & Co. and Llloyd George & Co., John Bull takes his car to Baldwin's Prosperity Garage, where he is given the right fuel: a mixture of Empire unity, safeguarding and reduced ...
Story of two friends who enlist in the Army at the outbreak of war in 1914 and are sent to Gallipoli.
Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in England for the India Round Table Conference at St James' Palace (second session).
"The Mahatma arrives to attend India Round Table Conference" (1 frame). Gandhi seated on floor, in loin cloth, works ...
Crowds at festival in Dehra Dun. Raising of the 'sacred pole', a full-grown sal tree swathed in red velvet. The Mahant Sahib, a local dignitary. On the pilgrim's route to the source of the Ganges in Tehri Garwhal - snowy peaks, women cutting corn, rope ...
ACTUALITY. The fleet at Gibraltar. Harbour shots and battleships. The Governor of Gibraltar, General Sir Alexander Godley dressed for hunting. The Calpe Hunt meet in Spain. Soldiers and sailors feeding the apes. Locals on steep steps in ...
Amateur film of irrigation project.
Hardwar, a holy town of pilgrimage where the Ganges cuts through the Siwalk hills - views of the Ganges canal, water front and temples. Pilgrim's camps for the Kumbh Mela, bridge especially by the Roorkee Sappers for the Kumbh Mela traffic. Crowds at ...
1: Delhi Horse Show , 1929.
2: New Zealand bush shots.
3: Simla: monkeys and beagling, 1931(?).
4: Simla: dead panther and moving house, 1931.
5: Simla: Scenes in the snow, 1931.
Production / Donor ...
