GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDEN PARTIES
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6258).
Synopsis
Guests arrive at Government House, New Delhi, and are greeted by Lord and Lady Mountbatten. Shots of Indian officers in ceremonial uniform, guests mingling in the background. Three American? Army officers (two are wearing United Nations armbands).
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.
Label on can is marked "G.H. Garden Parties"
Similar scenes also appear on MGH 6251
Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.
Titles
- GOVERNMENT HOUSE GARDEN PARTIES (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILM
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1948
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)