Wide shot of bands marching onto parade ground. Bodyguard, Mountbatten as Viceroy at Government House. Horseman performing musical ride. Government officials with Mountbatten, gardens, fountains, man directing ...
Mahatma Gandhi's funeral and refugees.
Gandhi's funeral procession, mourners dressed in white. A man at the front of the procession appears to be annoyed at the camera being there. ...
Economic problems of Jamaica today and the struggle for survival.
Amateur film with titles shot by Dr David Bates of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) while serving with the British Army in Occupied Japan records mainly scenes of traditional rural life and religious festivals, but also shows the devastation at ...
Biographical Adventure: The film reconstructs the life of Cherry Kearton. renowned naturalist, traveller and pioneer of cinematography, with excerpts from his wildlife films.
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram Militia on the North-West Frontier records social and military activity, and the landscape, between August 1946 and ...
Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.
Scenes of Lord and Lady Mountbatten leaving Government House, Delhi.
A presentation ceremony; Lord Mountbatten presents awards/plaques to troops outside Government House?. A shot of RAF ...
Mrs Layard out horseriding with servant and Mr Layard. Domestic outdoor scenes with 2 daughters. New Delhi: Kingsway and Viceroy's House. Landau in official procession with escort of troop of lancers. Family domestic scenes with ...
Amateur film by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: tours through his domain, and the funeral of a Maharajah.
Amateur film by the Maharajah of Jodhpur: cadets exercising, Movietone film of the 1937 Coronation of George VI..
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. Gandhi and entourage walking along in wooded surroundings. They cross a bridge and enter a village where they are ...
Scenes of post-war Burma. The funeral procession is most likely that of Bogyoke Aung San (leader of the AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League - prior to Burma's independence in 1948) ...
Two Indian servants hold ceremonial swords. Close-ups of the handles of the swords. The monogram MB appears on the servants' outfits. Shots of silver and gold goods and a decorative casket on display.
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Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows nature of country, customs and religious rituals, crafts, and administrative and health services.
The ...
An officer (arm badge is a red eagle on a black background) stands in front of a wall map of India, talking and pointing at the map, particularly at Punjab and the Northwest Frontier. A close-up of the officer in front ...
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A fishing trip by canoe on the River Barak (?): Indian porters on a bridge, scenes from the canoe (38). A European in shorts and topi stand by a fish held up by an ...
Palestine and its modern political problems: case of the Arabs and the Jews. This Modern Age series no.6.
Cars arrive at Government House, New Delhi. People gathered on the steps outside. Cars depart, crowds at the roadside. Mounted guards in a line outside Government House, Lord Mountbatten?, only just visible behind them, ...
The story of a young disabled boy who escapes from his tribe as he is about to be sacrificed because of a drought. He flees to a Christian mission and in due course is converted to Christianity and develops his painting talents ...
The historic past, cultural and economic present and potential future of Palestine are all portrayed as (mainly implicit) criticism of "the tension and uncertainty of the last 25 years."
Film of the Jordan valley and ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary Force, attached to 11th Infantry Brigade, records the eastward movement of Hindu refugees across the ...
A young Indian woman stands on a station platform, holding a package. Acharya J B Kripalani about to board a train, poses for the camera with two guards. Brief shot (from behind) of a groom? in a red turban surrounded ...
Punjab, India.
Shot of refugees crowded onto a stationary train, others try to climb aboard. Aerial views of stationary trains and refugees.
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Scenes at refugee camp Punjab, Northwest India.
Brief shot of Lady Mountbatten talking to people at a refugee camp. Two men in a street take leaflets from a man in a bookshop. Refugees ...
Outline of the Royal Family's tour of Southern Rhodesia in 1947.
Landscape. A plane lands at Salisbury; George VI and Princess Margaret step out. A second plane arrives; Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth are greeted by Sir John ...
INTEREST. Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947: 31st Jan. 1947 - Royal cars leaving Buckingham Palace, cheering crowds, drive down Mall. Boarding train at Waterloo Station (22). Boarding H.M.S. Vanquard at Portsmouth (32). Sitting on deck ...
Report on the Royal visit.
(Reel 1) Two Army Kinema Corporation (AKC) representatives and two Royal Engineers (RE) introduce each other and discuss a proposed army training film about sappers' tasks. The engineers want to use real footage to contextualise these tasks. A chart ...
St Paul's cathedral, Calcutta. An Indian man and woman and three British children walk through the cathedral gate towards the camera. Three Indian men pose in front of a door, they walk away to reveal a brass sign ' ...
Story of pearl smuggler's adventures in Singapore.
A story of Rhodesia intended for potential European immigrants. The film highlights the contemporary conditions of life there, outlining the main industries and the standard of living for the African and white inhabitants.
Opening ...
A Ugandan agricultural student visits a number of farms to pass on the knowledge he has acquired of fertilisation and the prevention of soil erosion.
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
Comprehensive pictures of the history of tea.
Views of a military display by Indian troops. Manipuri? dancers perform. More troops and a military band march past. A motorcycle display. More Manipuri? dancing.
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Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides a brief and uncritical review of progress made in Nigeria - Lagos converted from a ...
Various tribal dances of the Sukumaland people of Africa.
Offcuts from several of Colonel Hodgkinson's films.
Aerial shots of a river and surrounding jungle. Brief shot of vehicles ascending a mountain track, some snow on adjacent ...
"Cecil Rhodes brought peace to what is now Southern Africa. The Africans were a primitive people...superstitious and wasteful...". An African describes what his people have learnt from the white man: new and improved crops, soil erosion, ...
I. India. Mountbatten, accompanied by his wife, arrives in Delhi to take over as Viceroy. Airport ceremonies (Nehru); Mountbatten visits his predecessor Wavell and is visited by Gandhi (conversation during walk in garden ...
I. International Youth Congress in Munich. Delegates accommodated in Hotel City (converted bunker); conference scenes, with notable guests including Andr Gide (who later speaks) and Ernst Wiechert; proceedings opened by Harry ...
I. Research in bees and beekeeping at institute near Celle.
II. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. General Keating opens 'Biennial Exposition' in US Zone of Berlin: some of the stands (trade, 'CARE' packets, information ...
I. "Streiflichter aus Deutschland." a. Miners at the Achenbach pit receive CARE parcels (100,000 from US Zone) as incentive/reward. b. Frankfurt's Burgermeister awards Goethe prize for philosophy to Karl Jaspers. c. Wrttemberg ...
I. "Small change once more." Introductory shots of German shoppers using postage stamps for small change owing to shortage of coin; Bavarian Minister President Ehard and US Governor Van Wagoner at Munich mint start up presses, ...
I. Factory in Germany produces "5 million pairs of spectacles every year": quite good film of lens cutting, grinding, mounting etc.
II. Nicaragua: South America's largest gold field maintained by air link with outside ( ...
BBC cameraman David Prosser provides the commentary for the film he shot of the flight by RAF Lancaster to within 900 miles of the North Pole, an "important landmark in the work of the Empire Air Navigation School".
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Record for regimental historical purposes of the presentation of new colours to the 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D L A Gibbs, in Singapore on 10 July 1947.
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