"Memorial serivce at St Paul's Cathedral to the Antarctic heroes. The arrival of the Lord Mayor of London and sheriffs." Arrival of the coaches. The Lord Mayor - Sir David Burnett - and other officials climb the ...
INTEREST. Travelogue principally around Delhi.
Main titles. (3) MS double gateway, in a perimeter wall, horse and ox traffic passing through. (8) CU of the head of one of the archways. (12) MCU train arriving at a station, a large ...
INTEREST. Various fruits in India.
No main title. Intertitle (2). LS of a boy shinning down a large tree outside a house with fruit from the areca tree. He is watched by a few men and a number of boys (16). A boy slides down an areca tree ...
Title card: "Vivaphone" Film. Title card: 'The Rollicking Rajah'. First verse and chorus of 'The Rolling Rajah'. The film set is a city street in Britain. White man dressed as an Indian rajah dances and sings centre screen, either side of ...
"FLAG WAVING: American women protest in favour of peace" (15). On the steps of a building a crowd of women stand waving American flags (20).
"KILTIES IN TRAINING" (26). Small children wave as soldiers of a Scottish regiment pass ...
"OUR TROOPS IN INDIA: PARADE OF THE BOMBAY LIGHT HORSE". A column of cavalry march across a field in long lines abreast (30).
"BATTLE OF FLOWERS: CARNIVAL HELD AT BORGHESE, ITALY". Some gaily decorated horse-drawn ...
Units of the former Indian Corps, just after its disbandment, in rear areas before their departure from France, November and December 1915.
The officers' ...
A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.
An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the film - 'Canadians to Salisbury Plain, England. Indians to Marseilles, France. New Zealanders ...
Horse racing in Calcutta.
Lord Chelmsford presenting colours to the 5th Calcutta battalion.
ACTUALITY. The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page aircraft after the flight from England.
Main title (7). "The arrival in Calcutta of the Handley Page biplane" (13). LS of the biplane in flight (30). The biplane lands and taxies to a ...
Semi-contemporary material of the first British forces in France and the creation of the massed armies in Britain at the start of the First World War, 1914-1916.
Arrival of the Indian Corps in Marseilles in September ...
