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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Amateur film shot by medical missionary Ronald Carpenter. Includes footage of people working in Mirzapur City and District; general street ...
India' s most popular instruments.
Title card: 'Musical Instruments of India' over picture of instruments. Rolling script: 'Part of the ...
A record of the Thaw Asiatic Expedition. The Maharajah of Mysore and the Prime Minister. The Krishna Raja Saga Dam ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Doctor showing a variety of scenes in and around Mysore (Southern India) including festival ...
Naga refugees shown tending a church garden and graveyard (including British graves), and rebuilding their shattered village of ...
A street busy with pedestrians and animal-drawn carts is filmed from a static camera position. Many of the Indian men ...
Amateur film of New Delhi. Street scenes. Fountains. Show jumping and horse artillery on parade. AV from a plane. Interior ...
The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.
Set in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of ...
Travelgoue. Scenes in Peshawar, the village of Kabla, the Khyber Pass and Lundi Kotal.
Map of the world, CU of the ...
Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet ...
Main Title. "THE IRREPRESSIBLE MR LEVINE, AMERICA'S MILLIONAIRE AMATEUR AIRMAN 'TAKES OFF' FROM CRANWELL WITH BRITISH PILOT - CAPT HINCHCLIFFE". ...