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    Amateur film. Manipuri hockey, wrestling and dancing at Imphal including Kabui Nagas dance and Angami Nagas performed by either Maoor Maram villagers to celebrate King George V's Silver Jubilee.

     
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    Jackson Collection

    Footage documenting various event surrounding the 1935 restoration of the Ashanti Confederation. (Kumasi city?) Coronation of the Ashantihene or King of kings: Inter title "Ceremony in connection with the restoration of The Ashanti ...

     
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    Jackson Collection

    Journey from Liverpool to Takeradi, Gold Coast. Departure of Liner from the landing stage at Liverpool Docks England shot from the ship and showing the details of the landing station with the Liver Buildings in the background. Tugs ...

     
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    Jackson Collection

    Ceremonies surrounding the restoration of the Ashanti Confederation 31 January 1935. Substantially repeat Jackson Collection 1.

    Production / Donor Details: Donor's grandfather, Sir Francis Walter F Jackson was Chief Commissioner ...

     
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    Jackson Collection

    Colour sequences from reel 1: the Ashantehene ceremony. Crowds at large Durbar Ashanti tribal gathering. The manhandling of the "Golden Stool". The parade through the crowds of those carrying the tribal symbols of Authority. The ...

     
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    KAMALAM 1935

    Great Britain

    William Carey, the missionary, is seen offering himself at the Kettering meeting for work in India. By the use of two maps, the extension of the mission work since his landing in 1793 to the present day is shown.

     
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    Kendal Collection

    Military parade for the celebration of King's Birthday 1933. March past of Indian troops. Military vehicles drive past. 3 cheers by troops. Visit of King of Greece to Chaklala Military Camp in 1935. King's tour of inspection with ...

     
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    USA

    Story of three comrades in arms in the wars of the North-West Frontier in 18th century India.

     
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    Layard Collection

    Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 ...

     
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    Lewis-Barned Collection

    To India by air 1934; Army in India; Wateringbury 1935

    Production / Donor Details: Films shot Major Harry Lewis-Barned, who served in the army in India in the 1930s, and by Mr John Lewis-Barned, who served as an Assistant ...

     
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    Resettlement of Palestine by Jews; sudden death in automobile accidents; prohibition; trans Pacific airways.

     
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    Great Britain

    Record of journey made by Reverend G.E. Hickman Johnson and his wife to see work being done by missionaries in Jamaica and British Honduras(now Belize). Churches and schools observed, as well as economic life of these areas.

     
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    COMMANDER BRIGGS COLLECTIONGB

    The reel consists of numerous shots, with occasional intertitles, in no particular order, including the following (but see notes): (B&W) Amphibious exercise at Slapton Sands, Devon - light vehicles drive on to the beach ...

     
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    Amateur film. Monkey dance in Kuki village in Manipur State Assam.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage shot in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, showing how the mine and the community have developed since 1930

     
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    GB

    Amateur film with titles, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records Indian life and monuments in Multan (Punjab), Karachi, Taj Mahal (Agra) and Delhi.

    "Date picking colony ...

     
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    Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India. The road to Amber; women at a well; the market; the Palace; the Bazaar; bathing; well with bullocks drawing water; camel and donkey; women spinning; the Craster family at Jotwara; polo at Jaipur, ...

     
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    GB

    Film taken in Malta by Lord Mountbatten on Noel Coward's camera.

    The film shows Lady Mountbatten, the Honourable Mrs Richard Morton (afterwards Lady Grantley), Junie Heywood-Lonsdale and possibly Desmond Dryer. Noel ...

     
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    GB

    Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), shows summer cruise to Norway and scenes of military life in Northern India, including British soldiers entraining, purifying water from canal, ...

     
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    PEMBA 1935

    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of a trip from Madagascar to Pemba Island.

    The film opens in colour with a French steamer leaving Madagascar at Majunga, showing crowded deck scenes and a dhow pulls away from the boat. The film then changes to black ...

     
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    Filmed from the front of a car. English men and women on horses chase a pig with spears. Pig stuck with spears.

     
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    Great Britain

    Carving wooden pillows. Cutting a suitable branch - a forked section - which is measured, shaped with axe and adze and finally with a knife. The wood is left to dry, then rubbed with butter and heated over the fire. Final smoothing and ...

     
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    Descriptive of the life on the island, as lived by the present-day survivors of the mutineers from HMS Bounty.

     
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    Great Britain

    Pottery making methods among the Bimal tribe at Danana, Somaliland.

    Dry clay is collected and pounded and sifted to make a fine grit. Wet clay is carried back to the village. The clay is mixed with the grit and fine sand and puddled ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Pottery making methods among the Eile tribe at Gelib, Somaliland.

    The potter and his wife. The woman puddles the clay. The man makes the pots on a simple wheel, shaping the top part first from sausages of clay. The walls are shaped ...

     
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    Amateur film showing the aftermath of the 1935 Quetta earthquake.

    "The Quetta Earthquake. May 31st 1935. 3.3. A.M.". "Dawn: The Residency, Mastung". Panned shot right to left across rubble of the Residency, turbaned Indian visible in remaining ...

     
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    General views of Ceylon, its people and the production of tea.

     
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    Great Britain

    A mixture of reenactment and newsreel footage depicting events in Britain and the Empire during the reign of King George V, linked by a freshly minted penny in 1911 passing through the hands of numerous characters throughout the period. A ...

     
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    The production of rubber.

    The preparation of nurseries. Budgrafting at one year old, extracting, trimming and inserting a bud patch. The budgraft six months later. Tapping a young tree. Bringing in and checking latex, coagulating latex, machining ...

     
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    GB

    Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records contrasting activities of British and Indians in India: Indian watering lawn from hide sack, cow cart along "Chapel Road", British men ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and members of the Wagenia, Acholi, Sesi, Teffik, Juruba, Mendi and Kroo tribes - Jomo Kenyatta, later an ...

     
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    GB

    Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records contrasting activities of British and Indians in Kashmir: Indian servant loading master's car, Indians working with timber, making jewellery, ...

     
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    Amateur footage of scenes of Singapore and district including harbour and street scenes.

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film showing a picnic and a fishing trip in Scotland, and Indian troops being trained by British officers in the Jhansi upper province, India.

     
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    Great Britain

    Methods of making mats from leaves are demonstrated by women of Magnasa and Bimal tribes.

     
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    LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF AFRICAN NATIVESSouth Africa

    INTEREST. Aspects of life among the Swazi; parts of the Kingship and First-Fruits Ceremony, or Incwala, shown. Shots of countryside (60-84). Cattle on the road (96). Administration buildings, some white ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Everyday life and places of interest around the areas of Midnapore and Chittagong.

    A steamer in the background and in the foreground and Indian stand holding a flag which says `Forest'. CU steamer which shows a European woman walking ...

     
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    Amateur film showing traditional dances and rituals and a gigantic flower float in Manipur, Assam.

     
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    Amateur film of Sir John Anderson (Governor of Bengal) to the Chittagong Hills (present-day Bangladesh).

     
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    Great Britain

    An island by island account of a visit by Methodist ministers to the missions between October '35 and February '36.

    Traveling by boat, the S.S. Orbita starts at Santander, Coruna and Vigo (Spain) passing the Azores. and the first ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Naini Tal: an official parade; family shots. departure by train. the journey home by ship via Suez Canal and Gibraltar. Lucinda, the new baby.

    Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Visit to Ireland; scenes at home; the voyage out to India via Port Said and Aden; scenes at Naini Tal, including the George V Silver Jubilee parade;

    sailing, and garden scenes at Aligarh.

    Production / Donor Details: The ...

     
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    Vernede Collection

    Country train journey; preparing for a girl guides' garden party in Allahabad

    servants' children's party; leopard shoot in Kheri and Collector's Xmas camp;

    picnic at big game shoot; presents distributed to staff at camp; ...

     
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    COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

    Following soldiers hacking through jungle. Column of troops Gurkha? Mules through river. Native soldiers? Hats. Pan camp. Guard and drill. Troops on the march. Crossing bridge. Troops lined up.

    Notes ...

     
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    un TROIS-MINUTESFrance

    A brief French view of the history of the British Empire, made up mainly of maps and diagrams.

    The British Isles look geographically inconsequential, yet are the densely populated hub of a huge ...