GURKHAS AND SHILLONG SCENERY
This film is held by the BFI (ID: 7073).
Synopsis
Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.
Filmed by an officer in one of the Gurkha regiments. Views over the Sylhet Plain taken in the Khasi Hills. The ropeway by which coal was brought up from the plains. Views in Cherrapunji. Gurkhas in mufti. Gurkhas dancing. A procession, probably religious (Gurkha). Sacrificing animals by beheading them part of the `dassura' or `Durga Pujas'. Further scenes from the ceremony (?). Shillong races. Shillong gholf course. Khasi archery. Tea garden. A European garden in Shillong. Further views of the countryside.