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)