PICTURESQUE INDIA Or IN AND ABOUT CALCUTTA
This film is held by the BFI (ID: 257487).
Synopsis
INTEREST: Scenes in Bombay and Calcutta.
"The Botanical Gardens of Bombay"(5). MS park gardens. A European man in the foreground photographs an approaching elephant with several passengers on its back (23). "The Jain Temple and gardens of Calcutta, founded by Raj Budree Das Mookin Bahadoor. The Temple is inlaid with mosaic and coloured glass in various designs" (36). PAN of temple buildings viewed across an ornamental pool, several passerbys looked towards the camera (125). MCU same (182). MCU elephant statue (193). MS mosaic, camera pans upwards to the richly decorated roof of the temple buildings (213). "The black hole and tablet" (218). MCU rectangular plot girded with railings (277). CU plaque on the wall marking the prison of Old Fort William(256). "Method of sawing wood"(261). MCU of two men using a two handed saw to cut planks from a piece of wood (277). "The sacred cow of India" (284). Cu brahmin cow (300). "Scavenger goats of Calcutta" (305). MCU of pedestrians watch the camera as a herd of goats are driven past by two goatherds (328) [INCOMPLETE]
Titles
- QUAINT CALCUTTA (Alternative)
- PICTURESQUE INDIA Or IN AND ABOUT CALCUTTA
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1913
- Running Time:
- 4 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm Film
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 351 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- USA
- Camera Operator
- KEEPERS, Leslie Harry
- Production Company
- Vitagraph Company of America