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)