Reel 1: Long shots of village. Long shots of communal washing and drying area. Close up view of a dog. General view of a statue. General views of a town, people, traffic, streets and statues. General views of people in a public park. General views of nurses. Nurse holding a baby. Local sports - donkey race, three-legged race, other races.

Reel 2: Man (Dr Alf Fraser) playing piano. General views of villagers at work, making preparations and decorating a baldachin for a celebration.

Reel 3: MADRAS: General views of landscape. Young man and woman walking up a hill. Long shot of horses. Family picnic. Sunset.Women playing tennis. General view of a town from a hotel.

Reel 4: MYSORE: Uniformed men pitching tent at roadside. Army training exercise. General views of landscape. Roadside picnic. Officers at shooting range. Close up of nurse holding a baby. Long shot of hospital grounds. Close up of flowers. General views of a public park. "JOURNEY TO OOTACAMUND: A DELIGHTFUL HILL STATION. THE RATCHET-DRIVEN MOUNTAIN RAILWAY": General views of the landscape taken from the train. General views of neatly kept houses. Close up of flowers. General views of landscape. "TODAS, POLYANDROUS ABORGINAL TRIBE OF THE NILGRO HILLS": . Landscape. "THE TODA CATHEDRAL": Cathedral with tiny door. Close up of tribal members. "THE UMBRELLA TREE (A TODA SACRED SPOT)": General view of tree and villagers. "AN EARLY MORNING TRIP THROUGH THE MYSORE JUNGLE ON ELEPHANTS": General views of the elephant ride. Landscape. Hunting party. Three men in pith helmets and rifles getting into a car.

Amateur film shot by Captain A G Reid, a Scottish doctor who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Southern India during the Second World War, primarily showing off-duty scenes with his fellow doctors and nurses and their occasional interaction with Indians.

Notes

Summary: Dr Reid (1916-1983) graduated in Medicine from Aberdeen University in 1938 and worked as a General Practitioner after his war service in the RAMC.