Shows the achievements, aspirations. racial attitudes of colonial railway builders. Traces the journey from the Cape to Cairo by train, boat, Morris and native bearer.

Amateur footage of activities in (?) Duars area; tiger shoot.

General views of Bahrain seafront and the Arial desert. Imperial Airways airliner landing. Gypsy Moth biplane at airstrip. Pilot and taking off.

Subjects include British Political Agency staff on the waterfront at Manama; take- ...

The work of the Child Emigration Society in helping children from slum areas in Britain move to Australia and learn a new life. Includes slum scenes, the departure and arrival of a group of children, conditions at the Fairbridge Farm in ...

Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun - the log pond, saw mills and timber testing workshop. The Silvicultural (forestry) Museum and Botanical Herbarium. Seasoning kiln for controlling and hastening the drying of timber. Experiments of fire damage to ...

Cultivation in Gorakhpur Forest, rearing forest trees along with agricultural crops. Clearing roots. Different stages of crop development. Demonstration forest - measuring bamboos, removing frost covers from nursery seedbeds, measuring trunks in a ' ...

Amateur footage of the record of a journey from Russia to Britain.

Loading wheat at Odessa. Sunset over the Black Sea. Constantinople, loading of maize. Varna, unloading at the quay. The entrance to the Bosphorus. Quarantine station. ...

Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in England for the India Round Table Conference at St James' Palace (second session).

"The Mahatma arrives to attend India Round Table Conference" (1 frame). Gandhi seated on floor, in loin cloth, works ...

AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey from Calcutta to the Persian Gulf.

The arrival of a Dutch Air Mail plane in Calcutta (21). Plane refueling (47). Aerial views and Indians gathered around plane (61). Arrival of plane at Jodhpor, people ...

AMATEUR FILM. Recording plane journey across the Middle East region.

Aerial views of unidentified towns and countryside along the River Tigris, the town of Kut (91). The River Tigris and Baghdad, street scenes in Baghdad and a hall ...