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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
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.
Young Asian women posing for camera, then older Asian man and family.
Note: "Viceroy's garden + Nairital" scribbled on processing box ...
Detailed exploration of the Red Fort at Agra with close attention to the architectural features. Distant views of the Taj ...
Delhi and Quitab. Detailed scenes of the Red Fort. Humayun Mausoleum, Kwat-Ul-Mosque, Kitb Minar. Lodi Tomb. Views of exterior of ...
Kashmir. Formal gardens of Mogul lakeside palace. Ornate flowers;orchards. Houseboats moored at the lake. Canal trade. Town scape of lake ...
Large social picnics for Europeans carrying on life just as though in England. Bombay waterfront from the sea. Visit by ...
Personal film of Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India from the early to mid-1930s.
Brief shot of moving steam train. Indian Maharajah ...
A London schoolboy dreams he visits Buckingham Palace, where he makes the King's Christmas pudding from ingredients collected from different ...
Fictionalised documentary of evangelist Mott Keislar and his physician wife in Lahore and how they teach and treat local people. ...
India. (1926?1946?) British man pouring tea by the roadside from a flask, then climbing onto a horse and off trekking, ...
Imperial round table conference on India held at St. James Palace (74ft).
Travelogue films showing indigenous life in the interwar period, filmed by the British traveller, linguist, spy and author ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
ACTUALITY. Hunting tigers in north India.
Hunters travelling on elephants to a rendezvous from which the elephants advance in a line. ...
DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY. An Indian villager supports a Congress riot, is arrested, tried, sentenced and reprieved. Anti-Congress propaganda film made by R.H.G. ...
22 reels of footage short by Mark Tully and his sisters in India from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. ...
Sequence showing colonial life in Allahabad; leaving Allahabad station and a journey by train and ship; more colonial lifestyle; scenes ...
1930s Sikkim, Bhutan & Tibet Gyantse Film.
23 reels of 16mm on 1 DVD.
Reel 1. April - Aug 1931, in an ...
Reel 1: "THE METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY PRESENTS" "WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA" "PHOTOGRAPHED BY REV. A. SIDWELL AND MRS JOHNSON". Europeans ...
Herds of elephants in the wild. British women watching elephants. Scenes of tented city in parkland and people strolling and ...
Crocodile hunting by the local plateau people (Mysore?) watched over by Col & Mrs Loch who undertake normal line fishing ...
New Delhi state buildings. Tattoo or formal parade by kilted Highland troops with bagpipes and drums in front of State ...
Sahib and Memsahib inspecting formal garden. Working camp of elephants. Washing elephants in river. Elephants with their calves and riders ...
Large horse racing meeting at grand race course. Fashionable stylish race goers. Parades and racing. Hill country fox hunting meeting ...
Indian Stud farm (Kunigal) Christmas 1929. Groom exercises and parades lively black stallion in yard. Big herd of horses including ...
Mysore? British man and women in gardens of large Residence in the aftemath of a Garden party. Sahib and Memsabib ...
Sequences of bird shooting parties at Sardu(?) and Kandi, West Bengal. Shooting parties of Sahibs with fashionable Mensahibs in attendance ...
Shots of the Parachinar Durbar in the North West Frontier district close to the Afghan border and the Khyber Pass. ...
Fishing for crocodile in wide river. Dead crocodile brought to river bank to be examined and displayed by locals and ...
Laden donkeys crossing river. Road gang prepring road surface with bullock team. Group of local farmers. British offical inspects detachment ...
Garden scenes.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician ...
High level military inspection of newly built bridge over ravine.
Indian troops in action on north west frontier.
Dressage in grounds of ...
British gentlemen exhibit their prize stallions as if for sale and they are inspected on open downland.
Long camel caravan train ...
Great sport with pet dogs in the lawned garden of official residence (Mysore?).
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were ...
INTEREST - Travelogue. Scenes of Indian life and architecture.
RL.1 Seas breaking on the rocks at Cape Comorin (58-89); the Afghan ...
Amateur film of colonial India.
The start of a hunt, with elephants and beaters (3); view from an elephant howdah (16). ...
Amateur film of a journey to India via the Suez Canal, of people and life taken in India, 1929.
The film ...