The use of elephants in British India as working animals and in hunting.

Scenes at an Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop of 123rd Brigade, 5th Indian Division, and views of ...

In the ruins of factories on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma, enough material and equipment was found by the ...

Film showing vehicle maintenance activities at a field workshop in Burma.

An officer seen using a loud hailer. A ...

Unedited material on India showing local scenes and European educationalists or missionaries.

A welcoming committee of dignitaries for the arrival of a train. A procession through the streets with elephants. The groom ...

A ceremonial procession of elephants and carriages in a crowded street.

I. VICEROY VISITS EASTERN FRONT - Pictures of His Excellency The viceroy, Lord Linlithgow's flying visit to the ...

I. INDIA'S LAST TRIBUTE TO SIR SIKANDAR HYAT KHAN - Showing the funeral procession of Punjab's late Premier.

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I. "LORD WAVELL BROADCASTS PLAN TO SOLVE THE INDIAN POLITICAL DEADLOCK". The Viceroy puts forward the proposal for the formation ...

I. "SIR SHENTON THOMAS REUNITED WITH WIFE AFTER 3 AND A 1/2 YEARS OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT". At Calcutta airport, Sir ...

I. "THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Karachi Contact Club, Pola Festival, Nagpur - Police Investiture". Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sind, ...

I. "AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN INDIA". Australians arrive in Bombay for a cricket tour that will take them to ...

I. "FIGHTING FOURTH WELCOMED HOME". At Karachi, Fourth Division return home after over six years of active service in the ...

I. "THE CABINET MISSION ARRIVES IN INDIA". The Cabinet Mission arrive to try and break the political deadlock in India. ...

I. "DEWAS SENIOR CELEBRATES VICTORY ON RULER'S VICTORY" Maharajah of Dewas presides at his own Durbar accompanied by the nobles ...

I. INDIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON COMMANDERS FOREGATHER AT DELHI

I. INDIAN AIR FORCE SQUADRON COMMANDERS FOREGATHER AT DELHI - ...

I. BENGALS SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SITUATION IMPROVED

I. BENGALS SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT SITUATION IMPROVED - Watching army trucks being ...

I. BOMBAY'S GENEROSITY IN A HUMANITARIAN CAUSE

I. BOMBAY'S GENEROSITY IN A HUMANITARIAN CAUSE - A cheque is a ...

I. "MR. GANDHI RELEASED" Gandhi is released from the Aga Khan's palace after a year and a half. Initial scenes ...

I. "NATIONAL DEFENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" Touring members of the National Defence Council meet ...

I. "WEST AFRICAN'S ROLE IN INDIA'S DEFENCE" West African troops, "toughened by the toughest climate in the world", arrive in ...

I. "KHALSAS WINS M.U.C. GOLD CUP" The Gold Cup Final (soccer) in Madras is won by Khalsa College. The match ...

I. "RAILWAYS ENSURE SAFETY FIRST" A passenger train collision with a concrete block, placed across the line, is staged by ...

I. "THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PRESENTS NEW COLOURS TO THE FOURTH BOMBAY GRENADIERS" The Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, arrives in Bombay ...

I. "THE EMIR OF KATSINA COMES TO INDIA TO SEE HIS WEST AFRICAN TROOPS" The Muslim Emir of Katsina (on ...

I. "MUSLIMS WIN BOMBAY PENTANGULAR TOURNAMENT FINAL" Cricket veteran Hardstaff comments "I don't remember a more thrilling match in my ...

A procession of decorated elephants with howdahs, and troops on foot and horseback. This appears to be the Delhi Durbar ...

Natural rubber production in Travancore.

Indian Sappers and Miners of 26th Indian Division, XV Indian Corps, seen at work with shovels, picks and ...

No titles. Static shot. An Indian woman (dressed in a sari) emerges from an Indian style doorway accompanied by a ...

Hindu troops of 1st Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment, stationed in Saigon (French Indo-China, now Vietnam) celebrate the festival ...

Indian troops, many of whom had been overseas for several years serving in Africa and the Mediterranean, are ...

INTEREST. An Indian baby is held in various positions on the knees of an Indian woman, while another pours several ...

AMATEUR. Scenes in an Indian wildlife park.

A couple, in colonial style clothes, stand behind a tapir. The man strokes and ...

A brief picture of the training of India's army and a record of its service overseas through the ...

Seeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and ...

Scenes of Inland Water Transport operations on the River Irrawaddy in Burma.

A number of local rafts on the ...

Reel 1: A Ramp Cargo Lighter (RCL) being launched. A man paints an identity number (N-226) onto a Higgins barge ...

An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British ...

Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo ...

Troops of 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment and the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha ...

Reel 1 Part 1, shot by Sergeant Wilson at Dalla dockyard, Rangoon: shot of the name 'Noel K Adam' above ...

Amateur film showing some of the inland waterway constructions in the Punjab.

Motor transport of IV Indian Corps seen passing through the Oktwin area, south of Toungoo, on the road ...

TRAVELOGUE. Jaipur is the "Pink City" and the capital of Rajasthan in India. This travelogue shows the State Parade including ...

Amateur film of Indian wildlife. Includes, a black buck; a wild pig being fed; the road to Udaipur; a ram ...