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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Messages home from British Army and RAF personnel in India to their loved ones in the Brighton area. Canteen scenes.
Messages home from British Army personnel in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area. Canteen scenes.
Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland. Canteen scenes.
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Messages home from British servicemen in India to their loved ones in Dundee, Scotland and to some in South Wales. ...
6 reels of colonial daily life in India, inc. military scenes. Mostly family scenes, childrens games (apple bobbing etc.), horsemanship, ...
After the capture of the Ava Bridge and the city of Sagaing in Central Burma officers from the ...
Several types of Japanese artillery, captured during recent fighting at Bishenpur and Ukhrul, are exhibited at the HQ ...
India, in 1895.
An outline of the campaign in Burma from the abortive Japanese 'March on Delhi' offensive of 1944 to ...
Life in a town in Rajputana is shown, with shots of temples, markets, busy streets and means of transport. Closing ...
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's ...
Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
The film opens by giving a brief background to the ...
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 ...
AMATEUR. Amateur film of Sir Conrad Corfield and family and of colonial life in India.
Childrens school in England. House in ...
Coverage of the Delhi Durbar of 1902-1903.
No titles. View over heads of spectators of review of troops including Indian ...
Bodh Chandra Singh, Maharaja of Manipur, is crowned in a traditional ceremony at Imphal.
Outside a large, stately building ...
Srinagar, Spring 1946
Srinagar, 1946
Gulmarg, Autumn
AMATEUR. The Craster family at Jotwara, India.
The City Palace - a garden party for the Viceroy, Lady Willingdon and Princess ...
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, ...
Herds of elephants in the wild. British women watching elephants. Scenes of tented city in parkland and people strolling and ...
Extended sequence showing the open air collection of the wild life in an Indian Zoo. Concentrating mainly on baby elephants ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Informal sequences with The Resident and guests in garden of Mysore Residency with foot balling Bishop. The Resident makes tour ...