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Made in 1941, the film is a mixture of amateur actors recreating the early history of the goldfields (1920s) and ...
Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and ...
Children's Christmas party in garden with parents. Celebrations to mark the accession of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa, the Shaikh of ...
INTEREST. "Darjeeling - summer seat of the Bengal government". A shot of the hill road to Darjeeling. Natives herd sheep. ...
The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The ...
1934 footage of an annual Raj sporting event, the Kadir Cup Meeting. Competitors and visitors travel on elephants to the ...
Amateur footage, in black and white and colour, shot and edited by Rosie Newman, of her travels in ...
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram ...
Personal film of Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India from the early to mid-1930s.
Brief shot of moving steam train. Indian Maharajah ...
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. ...
Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the ...
Reels 1 and 2 of the Morrison Collection show the whole of the construction of the Jekko Falls Hydro Electric ...