FAHIE'S SHOTS OF A & B BLOCK ETC.
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6178).
Synopsis
Indian troops on parade. Independent India flag visible in background. Sikh troops with red turbans and white spats. Shot of the Gateway to India archway in Bombay. Shot of memorial. A flypast. A rainbow over a building, Shot of a independent India flag, and the penants of the Governor-General's Bodyguard. Two Indians mowing a lawn with a cattle-drawn lawnmower. View of building and monument in Bombay?
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: Stock date on Kodachrome is 1942
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked.
No suggestions concerning "A & B Block"
Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.
Titles
- FAHIE'S SHOTS OF A & B BLOCK ETC. (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILM
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1947
- Running Time:
- 2 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)
