Mrs Chisman has her horse brought from the stables at her colonial bungalow. Her groom in attendance. She gallops the horse over the 'Downs'. Good shots of the Indian servants.
Meeting of the 'Fox Hunters' with their pack ...
Films contain good colour footage of Capt. and Mrs. Crane's daily lives as an army couple at the end of the Raj.
Films contain good colour footage of Capt. and Mrs. Crane's daily lives as an army couple at the end of the Raj.
Films contain good colour footage of Capt. and Mrs. Crane's daily lives as an army couple at the end of the Raj.
INTEREST. A look at a day's activities in a Jewish colony at Deganya, Palestine.
Aerial views of Deganya, which the commentary says is a model Jewish colony. It is at the southern end of Lake Kinneret, of which several shots follow. Shots also ...
Film showing the food contributions supplied to Britain by various colonies and dominions.
Although more land has been given over to food production, a significant contribution is made by the British Commonwealth of Nations. The ...
Film showing the food contributions supplied to Britain by various colonies and dominions.
Although more land has been given over to food production, a significant contribution is made by the British Commonwealth of ...
Ford mobile canteens involved in the blitz and in ceremonies.
The film is divided into 4 numbered and titled sections. "H M the Queen inspects Ford-built mobile canteens" The queen inspects mobile ...
A survey of Trinidad, its street architecture, arts and crafts and its native population.
Amateur film without titles shot by Colonel G E Grimsdale when serving as the senior Army member of the Far Eastern Combined Intelligence Bureau (FECB) records his two young sons swimming in ship and shore pools, view across Hong Kong harbour, the ...
Bombay: Traffic scenes in busy large city centre with double decker trams. Newly constructed flats . European boys and men at their leisure swimming , diving and playing at a swimming pool in a seaside setting.
Cargo boats ...
Film showing what happens when a boy joins the Royal Indian Navy.
Footage of India's coastline is used as an introduction. Indian boys arriving to join the Navy are shown next, and the film chooses one of them to ...
(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.
(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South America, stopping in Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Chile, through Panama Canal to Curaao, Trinidad and the ...
Amateur film, presumably shot by an officer of the East or South Lancashire Regiment serving in India, shows servants and colourful flowers in English-style garden ("Our Garden"), overlooking sea or lake. Opening sequence of tropical sunset may be ...
Everyday glimpses of Chinese life in Hong Kong, showing the mix of eastern and western influences, both ancient and modern.
"The Thaw Asiatic Expedition presents INDIA. Produced by Lawrence Copley Thaw. In the new Magnacolor. Copyright MCMXL. Trans Asia, Inc. All Rights Reserved"
The film begins with a short text celebrating India's cultural ...
Amateur footage of a baby girl on a couch; walking in a livng room with a Chinese man and the mother (?); the woman and baby in a pram; the christening (?); the baby in a high chair with toys.
Amatuer footage of English family scenes in India. Mountains and a building; a man and woman in a ricksahw; a man with the camera; a small girl in garden with Chinese (?) man; convoy of mules on road; English woman, Chinese man and girl having a picnic ...
Amateur footage of English family life in India. Woman and girl in house, mountains and snow; girl playing in snow with man; five children playing outside; six girls in a group; CU of woman and girl playing in the garden.
Shots taken in Western Desert around Matruh, Egypt. Madrassi sappers at work on anti-tank ditch with pneumatic drill. Further shots of Madrassi sappers, Cameronians filling sandbags, RHA building pillbox ...
Scenes of an Indian Durbar.
First Italian prisoners arrive in Palestine, by train at Latroun. They disembark and run or walk to cookhouse for meal. Prisoners receiving food and eating. Australian sentries. Prisoners march off to ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Royal Engineer Lieutenant Archibald ("Archie") Jack of King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners records mainly off-duty scenes of the Regiment while at Roorkee, United Provinces, ...
Amateur film shot by C R Miskin while serving with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier of India.
Notes
Summary: viewing notes made with C R Miskin in Acquisition file
