10,000 children greet Queen Alexandra in Hyde Park.

Members of the Rafai Fakir sect of Hyderabad perform rituals: dislocation of eyeball, skewering of neck, cheeks, skull and tongue.

Rafai Fakirs demonstrate their rites in the gardens of Hunt's bungalow.

Amateur film showing Sir Hugh Stephenson, local scenes in Patna and Ranchi districts of India. Scenes include; seeing the Governor, Sir Hugh Stephenson, off at the station; the Governor's staff; dead tiger; a picnic; bison; dead deer; ...

TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.

The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further shots of the tombs and temples (34-62); natives and donkeys and children seated on the ground ...

Amateur film. Waterway in Srinigar; bridge; waterfront and river traffic.

Comedy.

Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.

Amateur film presumably shot by a British Army officer in the Royal Artillery serving at Quetta records full-track carrier and Morris Commercial truck towing guns on difficult sandy terrain and various off-duty scenes with British Army wives boating ...

ACTUALITY. A record of Edward, Prince of Wales' visit to India and Nepal, 1921. Prince at Calcutta; the Malakand Pass; and tiger hunting in Nepal.

No main title. A building outlined in lights (8). Arrival of the Prince in open landau ...

AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, Port Sudan, Aden, Fort Jesus, Mombassa and Nairobi. There are also images of Sudanese natives and views of the P&O SS Mooltan. The ...

A record of a safari in East Africa.

The 5th Battalion King's East African Rifles returning from a route march. Government House, Nairobi including Lt. Col. Sir Edward Grigg, the Governor. The members of the expedition, the ...

AMATEUR record of an expedition in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film concetrates on the baiting of a pride of Lions with a carcass, towed across a savannah from the back of a vehicle, whereupon is mounted the camera itself ...

AMATEUR EXPEDITION film made by Glen Kidston and set in East Africa showing members of a safari, a rhinoceros, lions and giraffes.

CS of Glen Kidston wearing a tall, pale homburg style hat and a white jacket. He talks to the camera ...

Salvation army workers among the Bhil tribesmen, caring for Burmese and Ceylonese children, and the work of the Catherine Booth Memorial Hospital. Native life and scenes in India, Burma and Ceylon.

Rl. 1. Travelling along a country ...

ACTUALITY. Garden party given by Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India during the Calcutta `season'.

Main title (10). The garden party guests arriving (mainly Europeans). They cross lawn in front of the house (52). The Viceroy's party passing in front of ...

Street scenes in ?Salisbury (177) A Kikuyu farm (263) Wambugu, Chief of the Kikuyu, greets Dr Philps of the Church of Scotland Mission (397) Wambugu shows neighbouring chief Mukoma the sword and stick presented by the Duke of York (432) ...

King Sohat conspires to kill King Ranjit ruler of a neighbouring kingdom.

Sheila Mary's first summer at Barang camp. Bedded down for her siesta. Watching Debtas's band. Peter the dog does a trust exercise with a biscuit on it's nose. Crossing Lingodan rickety bridge and screes. Baspa gorge. Pram and servants on road. ...

The love story of the 17th century princess who became Empress Mumtaz Mahal, whose tomb is the Taj Mahal.

Miscellaneous amateur film of India. Includes scenes in Simla - Annandale mountains. The Mall Viceregal Lodge. Local acrobat. Nagpanchuri wrestling competition. Sambhur hunting at Shikar. Elephant beaters. The arrival of the Maharajah Kumar. Guard of ...

A travelogue with a heavy emphasis on Kodak goods - arriving at the port, kodak goods being unloaded and then carried through Indian and Chinese quarters. The staff at Kodak's Singapore office are shown.

The sisal industry in British East Africa. Gathering and transporting the sisal leaves, extracting the fibre by machine, washing, drying, and baling up the finished product.

Waving sisal grass on a large plantation. ...

Newsreel item on air travel to India.

INTEREST. Part of a journey from the Semliki River to the Ituri River in the Congo (Zaire).

Main title (7). Line of porters walk up hillside at the base of the Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori Mountains) (49). The River Semliki on ...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY NETWORK: ROUTES, CONSTRUCTION WORK, STATIONS, WORKSHOPS, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

Travelogue of Fiji: Fijians making baskets and mats from coconut palms; ripening bananas in a pit; making kava; preparing a fire-walking pit; sailing in outriggers.

Record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition in 1921.

School children celebrate Empire Day (43ft).

Srinagar waterways street scenes; Martand ruins. A European intervenes in a fight(?) between a man and a boy. The European leads the boy away.

King George V and Queen Mary at Wembley Stadium for Empire Day service (65ft).

Amateur footage of city gate and main street. Girl in black burkhas in a gharry going into the bazaar area through Edwardes gate. Cattle in street. Views of shops in the bazaar and journey through the main street with pans of houses and numerous ...

Cairo and the river Nile.

Amateur film of the various stages in the digging of ditches to drain subsoil to assist in malaria control

Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in 1929.

A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).

Amateur film showing deck sports on board ship to Suez c.1929.

Personal film of a trip to Suez from ship's arrival to shots on land.

Scenes of shipping on the Suez Canal and Red Sea. A camel caravan walking along the shoreline.

Scenes of the journey through the Suez Canal, the crossing from Aden to Djibouti, and the train journey from Dijbouti to Addis Ababa, filmed by Fritz Weiss, German diplomat and Ambassador to Abyssinia.

`Durch Suezkanal und Rotes Meer.' ...

Amateur film showing sugar cane growing in India.

Cherry Kearton's journey in the Congo, showing wildlife along the course of Semliki River.

The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill Missionary Society. Missionary films held in the collection contain footage of numerous ...

Uganda: Reel 1 of 4

Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of the Earth.

The film is in four parts, with frequent intertitles. Internal references date ...

Uganda: Reel 2 of 4

Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of the Earth.

The film is in four parts, with frequent intertitles. Internal references date ...

Uganda: Reel 3 of 4

Mill Hill Fathers' Uganda Missionary Film - Mill Hill Sheds Light on the Dark Places of the Earth.

The film is in four parts, with frequent intertitles. Internal references date ...