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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes ...
His Excellency the Governor-General of Bengal, Mr Richard Gardiner Casey and Lieutenant-General W J ("Bill") Slim visit Mandalay, ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for ...
Remarkable film record of adventures covering a period of thirty years. Pioneering work photographing wild animals in Africa, India, ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. Opening shot of a map of India. An arrow indicates the Deccan States and then the Rajputana States and ...
ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.
Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white ...
In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess ...
ACTUALITY. Coming-of-age celebrations for a Maharajah in India.
A procession of elephants with howdahs passes the camera, crowds run beside it ...
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn ...
A doctor of the Indian Army Medical Corps administers a blood transfusion in the field to a wounded ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by ...