CALCUTTA & RAILWAY STATION

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6229).

Synopsis

A crowd of people at a railway station, Acharya J B Kripalani in the centre. People sit in the street selling goods. A brief shot of a fakir? View of the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta.

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

Acharya Kripalani was President of the Indian National Congress (Nov 1946 - Aug 1947) and steered the organisation through the critical days of the transfer of power

Railway station scenes continued from MGH 6228. Offcut from MGH 6245.

Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.

 

Titles

  • CALCUTTA & RAILWAY STATION (Allocated)
Series Title:
COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILM
 

Technical Data

Year:
1947
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
Colour
Sound:
Silent
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
cameraman
Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)