INTEREST - Travelogue. Scenes of Indian life and architecture.
RL.1 Seas breaking on the rocks at Cape Comorin (58-89); the Afghan end of the Khyber Pass (106-182); sentries on guard (233); a camel caravan (332); map ...
Amateur film of colonial India.
The start of a hunt, with elephants and beaters (3); view from an elephant howdah (16). Various shots of wounded animals, the elephants and the beaters (47). The Governor's Durbar: pontoon bridge ...
Edited, with intertitles. 1929: Hyderabad Zoo.
Golconda Fort Near Hyderabad City.
Charminar the 'Arc de Triomphe' of Hyderabad.
Gopalpore.
Gundalakamma River and Nathavalson Bridge Construction.
1930, ...
Possibly the official opening of the King George's Dock and port Calcutta? The day's festivities include the arrival of a few dignitaries, a military display invovling lines of soldiers, horses, and a few carriages, and crowds of ...
A lion and lioness in Africa. Film supplied by MGM News (90ft).
Amateur film of a journey to India via the Suez Canal, of people and life taken in India, 1929.
The film opens with a shot of a cathedral and the Suez canal. Boys dive for coins and activity on board ship on the way out to India is ...
Unedited material on India showing local scenes and European educationalists or missionaries.
Indian and European men and women on back of elephant; dead stag being tied onto an elephant; group photograph back at camp - European hunter and family pose in front of elephants and mahouts; party setting out again; dead leopard; another ...
Scenes of everyday life in New Guinea.
During a tiger hunt in the Gir forest in India, hunters watch a fight between a rare Indian lion and a tiger.
"LORD OF THE WORLD: THE IMAGE OF VISHNU, THE HINDU GOD, IS CENTRAL FIGURE IN GREAT PILGRIMAGE TO SHRINE OF JAGANNATH AT PURI, INDIA." Two of the cars standing side by side with pilgrims on them (17); closer shot of the crowd of ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Madras; Viceroy's residence, Thousand Lights bazaar, trooping the colour.
