Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.
Shot of a windsock ...
Demonstrating the difficulty of operating aircraft and airfield life under monsoon conditions at Imphal in Manipur, India.
Shot of a windsock ...
The official film record of the Prince of Wales' tour of India and Burma, 1921-22. Covering Bombay, Poona, Bharatpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Benares, Rangoon, Mandalay, Nepal, Madras, Patiala and the Khyber Pass. Also featuring a tiger hunt, ...
A journey by car and camel, through Persia and on to Quetta in Baluchistan.
Camel caravan (57-68). Man leading mules (71-75). An Englishman setting off for the `back door' of India by car (85-101). Kermanshah, the first ...
INTEREST. The growing, collection and processing of tea in Ceylon.
No main title. Tea bushes planted out by natives under European supervision (70). LS of native collecting the leaves (113). CU of a woman picking tea leaves (137). Workers, ...
A tank track is repaired. A soldier takes a lump hammer to part of the tracks. Damaged bogeys on the tank. One man holds a small section of track as another uses a torque wrench on ...
After fierce fighting British and Indian soldiers inspect the damage to the town of Tiddim, Burma.
General view of the town of Tiddim in the ...
ACTUALITY. Hunting tigers in north India.
Hunters travelling on elephants to a rendezvous from which the elephants advance in a line. A leopard is shot, then a tiger [actual shooting is not seen]; both dead animals are lashed on top of an ...
Architect Herald Berger is commissioned as advisor to Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur. He becomes involved with Seeta, an Indian dancer who Chandra wishes to marry. In a jealous rage he has Berger cast into the ...
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
Opening shot of palm trees and bullock cart carrying kerosene tins (62). Villages using empty tins for carrying water from the river, flattening the tins out and lining the roofs of ...
Everyday life and places of interest around the areas of Midnapore and Chittagong.
A steamer in the background and in the foreground and Indian stand holding a flag which says `Forest'. CU steamer which shows a European woman walking ...
Film documenting the training of the Kuantan Police force, 'after three and a half years of enforced idleness under the Japanese' by two British ...
After crossing the Irrawaddy River, Burma, troops of the 33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division consolidate the bridgehead as a base for future ...