Car Journey from Rawpindi to Bombay. Views of Indore, Tapeti ferry crossing, Nasik, Beach Candy, Lido resort, swimming lessons for the baby. Young boy soldiers marching along wintery English lane. Large family reunion in England ...
Indian festival of Banpati at Chowpatty, Bombay. Street processions with images of gods carried aloft. Riverside crowds entering waters. Committal of the images to the sea. Crowds celebrating in the sea with the images. 'The Coconut ...
England & India with the Army: Tunbridge Wells, Gibralter, Ooty, Bangalore
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 ...
Bidar and Hyderabad, 1931. Colour. Men and cattle at riverside. Vultures. Village life. Landscape scenes. Oxen crossing river. Musicians. Street scenes. Army officials taking tea outside a tent. Men in street bow to passing ...
Leaving India and voyage home. Andhra Pradesh countryside (?). Departing India by ship. Suez. Dhows.
Production / Donor Details: The film-maker, Michael Lloyd-Jones served in the ICS in India from 1938 - 1947.
Amateur film of irrigation project.
The building of the Nilgiris and Mettur Dam.
Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1931.
The film follows a typical patrol by a set of scouts' platoons, carried out with the purpose of reconnoitring a road ...
Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1931.
This film shows something of the social life associated with working on the NW Frontier. Brigadier Alston lived in a ...
"PALESTINE: ON THE SEA THAT OUR SAVIOUR KNEW!" "Simple peasants throng shores of Sea of Galilee. Where many stories of the Gospels were enacted. To see a flying boat (Imperial Airways) land on historic waters for ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Malaya.
Scenes in Penang, the view of the Old Fort near the harbour, a Malay village, the Springtide Hotel with friends of the Scotts outside. Gardens in Penang and Taiping. The Enggor pontoon bridge on the River ...
The film shows Indian towns and villages, and highlights the production of silk, wheat, rice, sugar and jute.
The film opens with a map of India, which a title introduces as the 'land of Mosques and Temples' and as the 'land of ...
