Khyber Pass: Mule train/camel train/outpost (125). Kashmir: Dal lake (near Srinagar). Agra: cattle market, Taj Mahal, market scenes, Red Fort (240 feet).
Khyber Pass: Mule train/camel train/outpost (125). Kashmir: Dal lake (near Srinagar). Agra: cattle market, Taj Mahal, market scenes, Red Fort (240 feet).
King George V and Queen Mary visit the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and see the miniature railway (108ft).
Note: See also 111ft offcuts under title (QUEEN MARY AT EXHIBITION).
ACTUALITY. An amalgamation of two events featuring the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The opening of the exhibition by King George V (23/4/1925) and the royal visit with King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Rumania (14/5/ ...
Main title. No series number. "Pictures Exclusive to Topical Budget" (6). "A Panorama presenting some of Wembley's Wonders" (10). Iris out to LS of the buildings at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, pan left (27). " ...
Home movie footage of the reception.
Egyptian country life with riverbank laundering, donkey transport of hay. European car driving in the desert. Getting water. Peasant funeral cortege. Use of donkeys by peasant families. Rocky desert countryside and the ruins of Petra. ...
Water divining. British army officers preparing for duty in India. School boys scenes with Harrovian Boater. Extended outdoor British Middle Class family domestic scenes. Small girls playing. Family outdoor meal in garden with table & ...
Swimmers in Bermuda demonstrate diving and formation swimming.
The funeral of Christian de Wet, Boer guerilla leader and politician in South Africa (61ft).
Footage of Sir Harry Lauder's round the world trip, camp life in Africa (?).
INTEREST. Record of a journey in Africa, possibly in Nigeria.
No titles. Europeans stand by a train (1 frame). Logs seen floating in the sea. The sea can be seen stretching to the horizon. At another angle the land can be seen a a ...
Scenes of everyday life in New Guinea.
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; the Sultan of Fallata; a ceremonial parade of Arab and Nuba chieftains.
During a tiger hunt in the Gir forest in India, hunters watch a fight between a rare Indian lion and a tiger.
Dramatisation of the life of the African missionary David Livingstone.
Opening with shots from Livingstone's childhood ('youth's most precious heritage - the influence of home'), the film next shows Livingstone studying medicine at ...
Trimming logs and moving them to the edge of a hill so they can slide down. Pushing them over a 400ft cliff, at the bottom of the hill, towards the river. Road making on steep slope at Thangi. Filmmaker's wife, "as cinema heroine", up steep slope with ...
"LORD OF THE WORLD: THE IMAGE OF VISHNU, THE HINDU GOD, IS CENTRAL FIGURE IN GREAT PILGRIMAGE TO SHRINE OF JAGANNATH AT PURI, INDIA." Two of the cars standing side by side with pilgrims on them (17); closer shot of the crowd of ...
Love story of an English girl, who has gone to live on her sister's farm in Rhodesia and is wooed by a hot-tempered farmer. However, she prefers a married man, separated from his wife. After a violent struggle with the farmer, during which ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Madras; Viceroy's residence, Thousand Lights bazaar, trooping the colour.
Amateur film. City scenes in Calcutta.
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Malaya.
No main title. "A prominent land-mark - Government House, residence of the Governor of the Strait Settlements" (4). LS Government House in Singapore (?) (18). "The railway-traveller through Malaya ...
Travelogue of Malaya.
Government-sponsored film showing the history, buildings and industries of Malaya.
Extensive titles outline the history of the region, under Portuguese, Dutch and British rule, while an animated map shows ships converging ...
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes around the island of Mauritius.
Credits. Titles (37). MLS island of Réunion viewed from a moving boat (44). MCU on the bridge of the boat (52). Titles (62). MLS from the stern of the boat with the mountains of ...