GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDENS (WITH PEOPLE)
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6222).
Synopsis
An Indain man and two women sitting on a bench in the grounds of Government House, New Delhi. A man walks towards the camera carrying a large basket of flowers on his head. A large group of servants. A group (British), including Ditty Hodgkinson (wife of Colonel Hodgkinson), walk through the garden. Views of the gardens. Ditty and Edythe? with a dog next to the water. Another shot of the servants. A man in a pith helmet inspects the flowers on a large climbing shrub. An Indian man tends a bed of yellow flowers. The man in the pith helmet picks a flower from the climbing shrub. Shots of a variety of flowers in the garden.
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked
Edythe also appears in MGH 6224. Don't know who she is.
Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.
Titles
- GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDENS (WITH PEOPLE) (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILM
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1947
- Running Time:
- 1 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)