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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
AMATEUR. A rally of Girl Guides attended by Olave Baden-Powell in Hyderabad.
Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and ...
INTEREST. Credits (49), hut on stilts from which tribesmen keep guard over their crops (82), dead neelgai shot by the ...
Reel 1: Aerial footage; landscapes and cloudscapes. Mountains, possibly the Himalayas. A settlement on a plain. A Chinese city street, ...
Officer cadets of the Chinese (Nationalist) Air Force undergo pilot training at the Northern India Flying Club near ...
India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and ...
Mrs Chisman has her horse brought from the stables at her colonial bungalow. Her groom in attendance. She gallops the ...
British soldiers of XV Corps celebrate Christmas 1944 on the Teknaf Peninsula on the Indo-Burma border.
A man leaves ...
A film showing the life of Clive and his rise from a counting-house clerk to fame and fortune.
ACTUALITY. Commissioner Higgins of the Salvation Army visits Ahmedabad Girls' School.
A group of girls of different ages, wearing uniform dresses ...
Convoy of troops and camel trains along (?) Khyber Pass enters camp. CU Camels. Mules and camp activities.
INTEREST. Some native girls demonstrating Coolie dancing.
The first shot is of a group of native women walking along. Men play ...