Brian Walker Collection: 2: Cawnpore
This film is held by the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (ID: 2002/104/002).
Synopsis
Scenes in Cawnpore (Kanpur): Cricket on Green Park.
Outside the bungalow at 13 Albert Road
"Ordnance Club" secretary and staff.
Friends
At Simla in the Himalayas 1944-45.
Government House and views (Simla?).
Muletrain and market street in Simla.
Washing in the Ganges.
Agra: the Taj Mahal and gardens
Ruver Jumna.
Cawnpore: at 17 Albert Road.
Suttee Chowra Ghat, also known as "Massacre Ghat", the scene of the massacre in Cawnpore during the 1857 Indian 'Mutiny'.
17 Albert Road.
Servants.
Cawnpore barber's shop and markets.
Memorial gardens and monument to those killed during the Cawnpore massacre.
Indian Independence Day celebrations at Harness and Saddlery Factory on 15th August 1947.
Indian Independence Day decorations in the Mall, Cawnpore.
The "Ordnance Club" on Independence Day.
Titles
- Brian Walker Collection: 2: Cawnpore (Archive)
- Series Title:
- Brian Walker Collection
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1940
- Running Time:
- c. 21 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 8mm VHS
- Sound:
- Mute
- Footage:
- 250 ft.