BAGHDAD 1928
INTEREST: Travelogue. Map (44); views of Baghdad from the river, with crowds crossing Maude Bridge, which is laid across floating boats (108); statue of General Maude (127); views of the river Tigris (150); a 'guffah' or tub ...
INTEREST: Travelogue. Map (44); views of Baghdad from the river, with crowds crossing Maude Bridge, which is laid across floating boats (108); statue of General Maude (127); views of the river Tigris (150); a 'guffah' or tub ...
Travelgoue. Scenes in Peshawar, the village of Kabla, the Khyber Pass and Lundi Kotal.
Map of the world, CU of the position of India (48-78). A town (84). Map showing Afghanistan and the North West Frontier province (105-134). Pan ...
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 ...
Khyber Pass: Mule train/camel train/outpost (125). Kashmir: Dal lake (near Srinagar). Agra: cattle market, Taj Mahal, market scenes, Red Fort (240 feet).
INTEREST - Travelogue. The film opens with a shot of two men in the Punjab stacking sheaves of wheat (58-70); a farmer sets off to market (81-100); Rawal Pindi from a distance (104-120); firewood cutters loading up wood for ...
Amateur film showing the Horse Artillery and Sir Hugh Stephenson, Governor of Bihar and Orissa. Scenes include; a polo match, probably the Prince of Wales' Cup; Red Fort at Delhi; Delhi and Patna horse shows, carriages, street scenes near ...
The official tour of Mr. Amery through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada between July 1927 and February 1928.
Empire Day celebrations - children salute the Union Flag.
Cairo and the river Nile.
How oil palm is produced in Nigeria.
The film opens with a map and a shot of a local plantation, as the intertitles provide facts about the palms. Africans are shown climbing the trees - 'the natives climb the palms by ...
Amateur film of New Delhi. Street scenes. Fountains. Show jumping and horse artillery on parade. AV from a plane. Interior of plane. Personal film of children on ski-ing slopes and playing in wood. Cricket at Batyana High School.
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. Commander Glen Kidston's trip to Africa, including a safari and a visit to a plantation.
No titles. LS of docks and large cranes (3). MCU of man reading `Photography for the Amateur' and smiling at the camera (17). A ...
"H.R.H. the Duke of York takes the salute in Hyde Park". Shot from behind the Duke of York as he salutes one of the sections marching past in the background.` Brigade and Standard bearers of the Girls' Life Brigade and the ...
First section of a floating dock leaves Newcastle for Singapore (44ft).
"INTEREST. Travelogue" The film opens with a map of Africa with pointer showing places on the railway line (89-117)(150-166); Lobito Bay, the starting point of the railway (192-222); a ship loading at Lobito dock (230-277); the SS Angola ...
Amateur film. The first film taken by Salvesen of the new floating factory. Leaving South Georgia late September 1928. Shots taken from `Saragossa' of rough seas between South Georgia and ice; two floating factories without stern slips; ...
9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of the Nile. Esvah barrage/dam. Coming down the Nile from Luxor, views of the banks and boats ...
Sir Alan Cobham's 20,000 mile flight round Africa in a Short's `Singapore' flying boat, between November 1927 and June 1928.
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in 1929.
Amateur film showing Kashmir, Kabul, a yogi hanging over a fire, the Shan States and leg rowers on Inle lake.
No titles. A potter at work in Kashmir (42). Street scene in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan (64). An entrance gate to ...
Amateur film. Grytviken, South Georgia. Argentinian whaling company stationed there. Shots from whale catcher on way to Leith Harbour. At Leith Harbour a ship with new free standing rudder; pigs running around in station; `Sposa' running ...
Film on local life in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, in particular the Konkomba country.
After briefly outlining the history of the Northern Territories, the film shows the installation of a new chief in ...
Swimmers in Bermuda demonstrate diving and formation swimming.