Turner Collection: 1: Khyber Pass and Rawalpindi. India, early 1930s
This film is held by the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (ID: 2001/103/001).
Synopsis
Family leave in Norfolk. Voyage to India. Stromboli. Port Suez. Quayside scenes. Indus bridge? (Large iron girders) near Peshawar. Scenery of Khyber Pass with road, railway, frontier posts and forts. Rocky mountains.
Display by bear trainer with his bear, row of Memsahibs sitting on grass knitting. European Social garden life with children.
Production / Donor Details: This collection was shot by Reggie Turner, who went to India after World War I to work as an Administrator in the refinery arm of a new oil exploration venture 'Attack Oil'.
Titles
- Turner Collection: 1: Khyber Pass and Rawalpindi. India, early 1930s (Archive)
- Series Title:
- Turner Collection
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1930
- Running Time:
- approx 16m 40s
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm VHS 35mm
- Sound:
- Mute
- Footage:
- approx 400ft
Production Credits
- Production Details
- See synopsis
