ARMED RIOTERS (MEN DRESSED UP)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6230).

Synopsis

Two Indian men, one holds a long handled axe, the other a rifle. Close-up of a man posing with a pistol. Close-up of part of a hand-made rifle? Close-up of a man demonstrating a pistol. Another close-up of the hand-made rifle? A man with a displays some sort of hand-made weapon? bearing the words 'country mortar'. Two men pose for the camera, one holding a long handled axe, the other two swords (the sword covers hang in front of him, on one the word Kirpan).

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

Similar scenes also appear in MGH 6233

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

 

Titles

  • ARMED RIOTERS (MEN DRESSED UP) (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)