Amateur film of a family visit to the Northwest Frontier, India.

A woman walks in front of a palace/temple. Smoke coming out of a tower in the palace/temple. Two stone elephants flank the entrance. Views of the palace/temple with another palace in the background. A Maud (known as Molly) McKenna carries her baby daughter, Rosemary, and places her in a type of carrier. She waits outside a house on a wooded hillside while two (Indian) servants lift the carrier. The party, the woman now on horseback, walk down the hill. Groups of people and mules pass by. Another group of people with horses. The party stop at the roadside. A small boy emerges, is given something and runs away. A woman sits at the roadside. A man selling small pots at the side of the road. A sign 'Multan City North Western Frontier' on a wall above archways. Busy street scenes. Shots from, and of, a moving train. Brief shot of Molly McKenna, her baby and her ayah (Indian maid) on a rug in a garden. Roadside traders. Shots of the woman getting into a rickshaw with her baby, her servant gets into another rickshaw and they are taken off down the hill. Taxis and drivers lined up outside 'Victoria Motor Taxi Service Co'. Views from a moving train.

Notes

McKenna's Bell & Howell Double Run Eight Cine Camera (Serial No: 201409) used to film expedition (see KAY 1314-1 - KAY 1314-6) acquired by Department of Exhibits and Firearms, with extra lens, two filters and lens cap, 17/6/2002.

Related photographs copied by Photograph Archive (Ac No: 2002-06-04), 17/6/2002.

McKenna's typescript Diary, with photographs, of expedition to be copied by Department of Documents.