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Four American sailors visit a club and meet Singapore Sue.
Amateur film showing a fair, military sports, the arrival of the Maharajah, show jumping, and dancing. Pet monkey. Fair at ...
Travelogue of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Travelogue, following a journey from Mexico to Borneo, via Singapore, covering local flora, wildlife, peoples and customs.
INTEREST. Shots of the sea from the side of "S.S. Narkunda" (31). The bridge of the ship (65). The engine ...
INTEREST. Lumbering in New Zealand and Burma.
Titles (27). New Zealand lumberjacks felling large tree by axe, sawing trunk into sections, ...
General views of Bahrain seafront and the Arial desert. Imperial Airways airliner landing. Gypsy Moth biplane at airstrip. Pilot and ...
Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.
Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. ...
1: Delhi Horse Show , 1929.
2: New Zealand bush shots.
3: Simla: monkeys and beagling, 1931(?).
4: Simla: dead panther and moving ...
AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.
The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta ...
AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey across the Middle East region.
Aerial views of unidentified towns and countryside along the River Tigris, ...
Amateur film of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.
Shots with captions of: the Khyber Pass; Fort Jamrud; Shaghai Fort; Ali Masjid Gaugle; Supply depot at Landikotal & Fort; ...
Car Journey from Rawpindi to Bombay. Views of Indore, Tapeti ferry crossing, Nasik, Beach Candy, Lido resort, swimming lessons for ...
Indian festival of Banpati at Chowpatty, Bombay. Street processions with images of gods carried aloft. Riverside crowds entering waters. Committal ...
The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.
"PALESTINE: ON THE SEA THAT OUR SAVIOUR KNEW!" "Simple peasants throng shores of Sea of Galilee. Where many stories of ...
The film shows Indian towns and villages, and highlights the production of silk, wheat, rice, sugar and jute.
The film ...
Information film about manufacture of tea by CWS. Includes footage from their plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the CWS Westhall ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Malaysia and Singapore.
The Chenderoh Dam near Taiping, on the Perak river which feeds a hydro-electric ...
Reel 1: "Shall Mills, TPT and Camp". Camel and mule transport. Ambulance truck. Two British officers in solar topees.
Reel 2: ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Ethiopia and Addis Ababa at the time of Haile Selassie's coronation, November 1930.
"Leaving Aden". Shots ...
ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.
Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white ...
India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and ...
ACTUALITY. Scenes at the leper colony supported by the Baptist Missionary Society at Cuttack in Orissa province.
Two men and two ...
Fox hunting, domestic, ceremonial and countryside.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, ...
Indian sea rocky coast. Large thatched hut with Sahib and dog. Light house with Indian on camel. Dusserah at Rewa. ...
Camel riding. Local women drawing water from well and carrying it home. Bullock carts and their drivers. Englishman plays with ...
Ahmadzar (North West Frontier?): Constuction of Dam by labouring gangs. Bullock teams and labourers. British man and woman on site. ...
North West Frontier. Local tribesmen. Defensive town walls. Market or Bazaar outside the high walls of fortified border town. Camel ...
Holy Men/Beggars set up begging bowls watched by Mensahib. Mountain fishing expedition by Memsahib and Sahib. Donkey carrying large paddle ...
Informal sequences with The Resident and guests in garden of Mysore Residency with foot balling Bishop. The Resident makes tour ...
Bird shooting with large mixed British party and Indian retainers in flat country side. Display of kill. Shooters take a ...
A record of a journey made by motor car from Iran, across desert country and alo ng the mountainous roads ...
"HM the King-Emperor opens the Round Table Conference which was attended by [Princes/Premiers?] and leaders of the Indian Empire."
Compilation of footage of Gandhi, in India and in Britain, probably mostly from newsreel sources. 1. Gandhi in a garden ...
Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.
Filmed by an officer in one of ...
Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.
Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.
Small Indian boy with his ...
Port Said harbour. Royal Navy sailors visiting the Sphinx. The anchorage at Aden. Bombay bay and harbour. Race course with ...
Race horse meeting at the Bombay Race Course(?). Formal grand wedding or ceremony at a Trade Fair? Procession with Indian ...
"IN INDIA TODAY: GANDHI : STORMY PETREL OF INDIAN POLITICS; COMPLETES 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' MARCH TO BREAK SALT LAWS, UNINTERFERED WITH ...
"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of ...
Big game hunting in India.
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo ...
Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.
Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box ...