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Drama. Historical. The child of a sepoy is dangerously ill. Despite her husband's prejudices, the sepoy's wife goes to the ...
Pathe film of Singapore. The film includes waterfront scenes, and scenes in the centre of Singapore. It also shows the ...
INTEREST. Indian elephants at work hauling timber.
An elephant team pushes its way through a thicket (20). Natives fell and trim ...
INTERET. Travelogue. A Muslim festival in Delhi.
Main title (4). HAS of the city (5). Crowded street scenes during the festival ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The manufacture of rope at Howrah.
Main title (3). Indians unload bales of hemp from a barge on the river ...
INTEREST. Working elephants in India.
Titles (1). Gap (4). MS three elephants walk along a beach past the camera. In the ...
INTEREST. Indian elephants bathing and working.
Sea breaking on rocky shoreline (17). Native handlers on Indian elephants emerging from a lake ...
INTEREST. Scenes in North Borneo.
Titles (11). Gap. Main title (14). Titles (21). MS house, native people in the foreground, a ...
A record of the Preston Empire Day celebration of 22 May 1909.
A title introduces 'Preston Empire Day May 22nd 1909. ...
Kandy, Colombo and the Kelani river.
Market scene in Kandy. Merchants display their wares, while people, children and animals jostle each ...
INTEREST. Scenes from the Far East.
Crowds of native people at a quayside passing items from hand to hand to load ...
INTEREST. The growing, collection and processing of tea in Ceylon.
No main title. Tea bushes planted out by natives under European ...
Travelogue showing scenes from British North Borneo.
Opening with a train journey, the film shows views from the train as it ...
INTEREST. An Indian baby is held in various positions on the knees of an Indian woman, while another pours several ...
A street busy with pedestrians and animal-drawn carts is filmed from a static camera position. Many of the Indian men ...
INTEREST. Scenes of life and customs in Calcutta and Bombay.
A busy street in Calcutta filmed from the top of a ...
Early footage from Ceylon.
Title card: 'Views and People in Ceylon'. Shots taken from the front of a train as ...
No main title. Men in military uniform disembarking from a small launch. A second launch from which the Prince and ...
No main title. A long procession of elephants slowly passes along a road lined with soldiers. Probably part of the ...
ACTUALITY. Commissioner Higgins of the Salvation Army visits Ahmedabad Girls' School.
A group of girls of different ages, wearing uniform dresses ...