Survey of the commercial relationship and interchange of goods between Great Bri tain and the Dominions. Construction of great new graving dock at Southampton a nd loading and unloading of cargoes.

Castries, St Lucia; Georgetown, Grenada; Windward Islands

Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, GUNGA DIN is a fictional tale set in British India during the Thuggee uprising.

Gurkhas - dances, procession, animal beheading. Shillong activities; Khasi archery; Shillong and Khasi hills.

Filmed by an officer in one of the Gurkha regiments. Views over the Sylhet Plain taken in the Khasi Hills. The ropeway by ...

Amateur footage of Sikkim, India. Including the gardens of the British officials and the officials themselves. Preparations for a trip. A man filming with a 16mm Bolex camera. A variety of local officials. Presentation of the white scarves ceremony. ...

Domestic family scenes (home and seaside) in the U.K. in the 1930s. London traffic in late 1930s. Ship ocean voyage. Gibraltar from the sea. Shot of ship 'Queen Elizabeth'.

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Ship passage to India. Arrival. Train journey inland. Army manoeuvres with camel troops, parade sequence. Aftermath of big train wreck and the subsequent recovery operations. Formal opening of railway line by Maharaja, inspection of ...

Travel scenes of the High Mountains Working railway and the movement of goods. Maharaja's wedding festivities. Kashmir holiday: lake scenes with water sports and flower boats. British civil servants at their leisure

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Travel shots of journey through Bengal(?) province showing river scapes /river traffic. Europeans taking part in a fun sports open air event in front of Indian soldiers. Detailed views of the new city of New Delhi and contrasts with ...

Amateur footage of Hong Kong during the Rev. Martin's posting. Aftermath of the typhoon of Sept 2nd 1937. The voyage home.

INSTRUCTIONAL. The story of the building of the Takoradi Harbour on the Gold Coast. Opening shots of cocoa plantations where the cocoa pods are plucked from the tree trunks, the beans extracted and sorted by natives. Commentary explains ...

INTEREST. Material apparently shot for PEARLS AND SAVAGES and the JUNGLE WOMAN (?) re-edited and provided with a first person narration to form a story line: a team of explorers search for their lost companions in the New Guinea jungle and escape the ...