INTEREST. Scenes of life and customs in Calcutta and Bombay.

A busy street in Calcutta filmed from the top of a moving ?tram, with horse traffic, pedestrians; another tram is visible some distance in front (39) Pan of the Eden Gardens and surrounding public buildings (80) Indians watching water fowl behind wire (123) Horse and bullock traffic crosses over level crossing after the passage of a locomotive. Pan left to the Old Bridge over the Hooghly River, busy with animal transport (183) The port area: Indian labourers digging a hole; bathers and small craft; bows of large liner (250) A European examining metal curios on sale from seated traders (270) A wooden water raiser powered by two bullocks (318) An Indian pounding and washing cloth in a water tank (344) Cremation of a corpse: several men position the corpse over a trench and place sticks of wood over it. The pyre alight (450) Bombay: street scene, with turbaned Indians, pony trap. Seated market traders selling food (532) Indians squatting beside pond to perform their ablutions (559) Temple entrance, with crowds jostling outside (603) Religious sacrifices: several lambs are garlanded then placed in a V-shaped frame and decapitated, watched by a crowd. Indian women bowing to and pouring oil on the frame (676)