The St. Joseph's Collection consists of 79 reels donated to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum by the Mill Hill ...

Travancore Game Reserve, Bombay, and Bakers Estate, Komeron, Cochin.

Everyday life for members of 99 (Madras Presidency) Squadron RAF at Ambala, India, June-September 1919.

(Reel 1) The troopship ...

Arrival of the editors of leading Indian newspapers, on a goodwill tour run by the Ministry of Information, ...

Semi-contemporary material of the first British forces in France and the creation of the massed armies in Britain ...

Lord Chelmsford presenting colours to the 5th Calcutta battalion.

ACTUALITY. The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page aircraft after the flight from England.

Main title (7). "The arrival in ...

A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.

An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the ...

Horse racing in Calcutta.

Units of the former Indian Corps, just after its disbandment, in rear areas before their departure from France, ...

"OUR TROOPS IN INDIA: PARADE OF THE BOMBAY LIGHT HORSE". A column of cavalry march across a field in long ...

"FLAG WAVING: American women protest in favour of peace" (15). On the steps of a building a crowd of women ...

INTEREST. Travelogue principally around Delhi.

Main titles. (3) MS double gateway, in a perimeter wall, horse and ox traffic passing through. ...

Title card: "Vivaphone" Film. Title card: 'The Rollicking Rajah'. First verse and chorus of 'The Rolling Rajah'. The film set ...

INTEREST. Various fruits in India.

No main title. Intertitle (2). LS of a boy shinning down a large tree outside a ...

"Memorial serivce at St Paul's Cathedral to the Antarctic heroes. The arrival of the Lord Mayor of London and sheriffs." ...

INTEREST: Scenes in Bombay and Calcutta.

"The Botanical Gardens of Bombay"(5). MS park gardens. A European man in the foreground photographs ...

Main title (1). "A cinematographic record of the magnificent & historical ceremonies of December 12th, 1911." (7). In a large ...

Main title. "This great function took place outside Delhi and in importance and magnificence exceeded all such events known in ...

Main title. A general view of the throne dais in the centre of the vast arena (62); a horse-drawn carriage ...

TOPICAL. Disembarkation of King George V and Queen Mary, returning from India.

"The 'Medina' arrives Portsmouth - Their Majesties disembarking". Shot ...

Main title. "The Durbar Procession". The procession moves along a road in open countryside lined with troops (65). A distant ...

Coverage of the King and Queen at the Delhi Durbar in December 1911.

Shows the course of events leading up to the relief of Lucknow.

Main title (2). A fakir (dressed only in loin cloth) helps his two assistants to set up a pattern of ...

"ARRIVAL OF MAH H.R.H. JIND (sic). Inspection of the guard of honour" (5). A train arrives and officers in white ...

The coronation procession of King George V.

No titles. Two frames with `King George V Coronation' scratched on them. The coronation ...

King George V and Queen Mary en route to the Delhi Durbar. They are greeted at Port Said? and attend ...

INTEREST. The Maharajah of Kapurthala and his guests on their journey towards the fishing grounds: men riding on elephants (29). ...

INTEREST. An elephant under the dirction of its trainer moves three large tree trunks over muddy ground (30ft). [16mm].

Note: Contained ...

INTEREST. A short procession of Indian men and women pass in front of the camera. The men are in the ...

Drama. Historical. The child of a sepoy is dangerously ill. Despite her husband's prejudices, the sepoy's wife goes to 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 ...

A record of the Preston Empire Day celebration of 22 May 1909.

A title introduces 'Preston Empire Day May 22nd 1909. ...

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 ...

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 ...

No main title. Men in military uniform disembarking from a small launch. A second launch from which the Prince and ...