Reel 1: Model of India, filmed at low angle with crawl of text; RAF Film Production Unit presents Life in Air Command South East Asia. The map flips upright, so the camera is looking directly down on it, and commentary explains the basic geography of ...
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Story of three comrades in arms in the wars of the North-West Frontier in 18th century India.
During a lull in fighting in the Maungdaw area of Arakan, Burma, British troops of 25th Indian Division demonstrate how they deal with monsoon ...
Depicts medical work of the London Missionary Society at Jianganj, specifically at the new hospital built by the Society to serve the Murshidabad district of Bengal. Mission staff featured include Dr. Beryl Bowering and Dr. Oliver Newell.
Scenes showing RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft being loaded and refuelled prior to supply operations from Chandina, India.
Dakota aircraft being ...
Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, visits the Kohima and Imphal fronts, India.
Mountbatten arrives at ...
Lord Munster, Under-Secretary of State for India makes a tour of welfare inspection of British troops in India.
Lord Munster seen arriving by ...
Personal film of Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India from the early to mid-1930s.
Brief shot of moving steam train. Indian Maharajah in finery, horses led by servants with plumed headdresses. Indians in uniform followed by European ...
Large formal lawn in gentlemen's residence where a toddler is taking unsteady steps watched by parents/grandparents and with dogs playing.
Production / Donor Details: The collection was shot mainly in India between 1932 and 1942 ...
Amateur film. City scenes in Calcutta.
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 ...
