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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
Colombo harbour. Dedication of War Memorial Arch/Monument in Delhi.
Air show display at Delhi. Ascot Racemeeting. Small children enjoy life ...
Children fancy dress preparation. Tennis party at Simla. Muttra Junction and Indian railway journey. Bombay city scape. Red Sea voyage. ...
Bombay, the Gateway to India, Bombay Yachting Club, crowded street with street markets, Perth + Freemantel city scenes with the ...
Ship's voyage from Aden, through the Suez Canal to Egypt. Street traders and traders seeking business from the ship. Snake ...
Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.
Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.
Small Indian boy with his ...
Port Said harbour. Royal Navy sailors visiting the Sphinx. The anchorage at Aden. Bombay bay and harbour. Race course with ...
Race horse meeting at the Bombay Race Course(?). Formal grand wedding or ceremony at a Trade Fair? Procession with Indian ...
Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.
Footage of India's coastline is used as ...
St. James's Park and its environs.
Opening LS view of St. James's Park, Piccadilly; traffic passing Marble Arch (92). Entrance to ...
About the experiences of two young English women in India, two generations apart, in the 1920s and 1980s. Anne, a ...
The coronation procession of King George V.
No titles. Two frames with `King George V Coronation' scratched on them. The coronation ...
Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, with Lady Marie Thomas, 1st Marchioness ...
PROPAGANDA. The way in which Indian hill tribes make contributions to the War effort.
An annual religious festival accompanied by music ...
The Maharajah of Manipur's official dancers perform for airmen of the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air ...
INTEREST. Travelogue principally around Delhi.
Main titles. (3) MS double gateway, in a perimeter wall, horse and ox traffic passing through. ...
A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.
An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the ...
AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.
The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta ...
Amateur film showing everyday life in the Hunter household in Uttar Pradesh.
Mr Hnter introduces films by titles. In train nearing ...
ACTUALITY. Indians gathering honey from trees.
L.S. man in top branches of a tree lowering a basket of honey to the ...
Amateur film showing the Horse Artillery and Sir Hugh Stephenson, Governor of Bihar and Orissa. Scenes include; a polo match, ...
Two former prisoners of war, one British and one Indian, receive medical treatment at a hospital in Bangkok, ...
Local Chinese civilians take part in an identity parade in order to identify Japanese troops suspected of war ...
Amateur film. Features scenes from a 1934-1935 tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
No titles. In Manipur ...
Amateur film. ?Camp in Waziristan, Khyber. Sunset in camp, blockhouse and many tents in lines, camels and drivers.
"IN INDIA TODAY: GANDHI : STORMY PETREL OF INDIAN POLITICS; COMPLETES 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE' MARCH TO BREAK SALT LAWS, UNINTERFERED WITH ...
Scenes of the life of a farmer and his family in Maharashtra during the changing seasons of the year.
Amateur film of a journey to India via the Suez Canal, of people and life taken in India, 1929.
The film ...
Amateur film of the residency at Mhow, India, and Freya Stark. stark is received by the Acting Resident Major W ...
Some footage duplicated from GORRIE PERSONAL FILM NO. 14, some from others. Sheila Mary's first summer, birthday games with her ...
Amateur film taken by the political agent in Quetta while on tour. Film taken by the Political Officer Mr barlow ...
Amateur film of the spring festival at Udaipur. Views of the Residency and its garden. Poeple dressed in their best ...
"India House. H.M. The King, accompanied by the Queen, opens magnificent new home of India in Aldwych." (0.04). HAS of ...
Part one of a double issue (part two - 'India at War') dealing with India's political state while ...
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training ...
Newsreel items (mute) including production of India rubber, capture of Tiddim (Burma) and South African Navy at sea.
Documentary: Film shows examples of different aspects of India, religion, peasan ts and sophisticated society.
A short film on the expansion of the Royal Indian Navy in the 1930s in both shipping and ...
Big game hunting in India.
Scenes Vengeance divebombers of 8 Squadron Indian Air Force in action.
Exterior shot of a building, presumably the briefing ...
Political and social life in India.
Credits. Crowd of Indians. Commentary states that among the contradictions of India a new ...
Colonel Mackenzie Rogan inspects Indian bands ready for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (52ft).
Scenes of an Indian Durbar.
Arrival of the editors of leading Indian newspapers, on a goodwill tour run by the Ministry of Information, ...
INTEREST. Indian elephants bathing and working.
Sea breaking on rocky shoreline (17). Native handlers on Indian elephants emerging from a lake ...
The use of elephants in British India as working animals and in hunting.