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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Amateur film of a climbing party in Kashmir.
Team of men with packs walking through mountain pass (11). Snow and mountains, ...
Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.
Amateur footage: Shillong races, golf, picnics (attended by Lord and Lady Willingdon) and market scenes.
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed from 28 to 30 April 1940 in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean showing at least ...
Amateur film taken in Sikkim and Nepal.
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia (ALFSEA), visits a variety of locations in ...
Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner to Australia, visits Imphal airfield and is received by Air Commodore Vincent.
Lockheed ...
Newsreel item on air travel to India.
Reel 1: Panning shot over rooftops of Worli Transit Camp, Bombay, (Mumbai) India. Local women carrying 'charpoys'; bedsteads or cots ...
Additional footage for ABY 73 'So This Is India'.
Medium-distant shot of men loading a Bedford lorry. The lorry ...
A further instalment for 'So This Is India' sees Aircraftman Flower arrive at RAF Redhills Lake, Madras (Chennai) ...
A further instalment of 'So This Is India' in which Aircraftman 'Paddy' Murray goes by air to a ...