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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
INTERET. Travelogue. A Muslim festival in Delhi.
Main title (4). HAS of the city (5). Crowded street scenes during the festival ...
Airmen of an RAF motor transport waterproofing unit demonstrate techniques for waterproofing vehicles in preparation for amphibious operations.
Various ...
INTEREST. The work of a district officer or magistrate in the province of Bengal.
Map of India showing the province of ...
Melodrama in which an independent Indian state revolts and is subdued by British troops.
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, ...
A record of a journey made by motor car from Iran, across desert country and alo ng the mountainous roads ...
INTEREST - Travelogue. The film opens with a shot of two men in the Punjab stacking sheaves of wheat (58-70); ...
Indian boy sees the dance of the Elephants.
Amateur film of elephants at work; young elephants being trained.
Drama of kidnapping and intrigue set against an Indian background.
PROPAGANDA. A film on the National Government's aims to boost Britain's trade with the Empire: Though nerve-centre of the Empire, ...
British and Indian Engineers of 54 Workshop Company are seen overhauling Japanese small arms captured after the fall ...
General Leese (Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia) and General Rees (General Officer Commanding 19th Indian Division) ...
Troops of 71st Brigade, 26th Indian Division, XV Corps enter Kyauktan (south west of Rangoon) and recently liberated ...
British soldiers of 77th Brigade, 3rd Indian Division in bush hats board a raft as others on board wait. Two ...
A mobile column of motorised infantry and tanks drives to Ambarawa in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to ...
Demonstrating the use of an RAF de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane to evacuate casualties from improvised landing areas ...
Expedition to the breeding grounds of the flamingoes led by Col. V.C. Steer-Webster, Mr. McCann, Mr. Gilbert, and Mr. Wandrekar. ...
INSTRUCTIONAL. The manufacture of rope at Howrah.
Main title (3). Indians unload bales of hemp from a barge on the river ...
General view from Maharajah's Palace, street scenes, the Temple of Juggernaut. Details of stone carving in the temple, market scene, ...
Amateur travel film.
[From notes supplied by archive donor:]
Farewell to India 1945. Home, Cheam, Brother David's wedding, Nellie, 1952. Christening of ...
Air Marshal Peirse, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, makes a farewell inspection of RAF and Indian Air ...
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, recently returned Governor of Burma, attends a ceremonial feeding of the poor as part of ...
The operation of a ferry across the Irrawaddy River (Burma) using DUKWs as towing vehicles.
A ferry made up ...