Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.

Amateur footage: Shillong races, golf, picnics (attended by Lord and Lady Willingdon) and market scenes.

START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least three giant sea turtles caught for food by the crew of HMS Kent and the waterfront at Male', the main population centre in the island group, ...

Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in Rangoon, capital ...

Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.

Lockheed Hudson ...

Newsreel item on air travel to India.

Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots with interlaced strings rather than slats. A ...

Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.

Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry drives away with men waving. ...

A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) India.

Aircraftman Flower ...

A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a forward airstrip.

A lorry reverses towards a ...

Reel 1: Airmen Paddy and Jock sitting in a train compartment. They lean out of a window. Paddy leans from a window to buy bananas from a local girl. Scenic shots of the ...