Amateur film by unidentified cameraman, with intertitles, records various cavalry events by the Bombay Light Horse (an Indian Army reserve regiment) on the flat and over fences, including Section Jumping, the Lamba Kan Stakes, tent-pegging (Symons' ...
Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.
The film shows several of the Camps at which the Frontier troops were based, including Mansai, Jandola, Sorarogha and ...
Home movie shot in Waziristan, on the NW Frontier of India, ca 1930.
The film begins by showing a practice parachute supply drop and there then follows a sequence showing a convoy of ...
Scenes in the life of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. Film shows Indian Army (Bengal Sappers & Miners) life: training: drill and bayonet practice; marching; bridge building (good shots); constructing a drystone building; shots of ...
Pageant -St Georges & The Dragon. Sports day. Races. Tug of war. Egg and Spoon race. Demonstration of lorry assembly by Indian mechanics. Oil derricks. Camel train and Indian Frontier crossing.
Production / Donor Details: These ...
Bidding farewell to servants & friends in India. Sea jouney home. Port & town of Aden. Passage through the Suez Canal. Shipping in the canal. Shoreside views from the ship. Tour of Port Said & its momuments. Marsailles city scape ...
Trials at Chakala Military Testing Ground of Armoured Cars/Light tanks which cross over rough terrain at speed and ford rivers. Trials of large armoured personal carrier pulling big field gun. Large gathering of observing English ...
Flowering trees in streets in central Bombay streets around the Victoria Terminus..
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John Hamilton Bernard Peyton (Indian Army).
Life at Naini Tal.
Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady Kendall, wife of Sir Charles Kendall, in Allahabad, Benares, Naini Tal, Lucknow and England. The second ...
The Donaldson family moving into the Collector's House at Aligarh, mid 1930s; fishing; country race meeting and fairground; preparing to move the Collector's camp; gardening, extensive bazaar sequence.
Production / Donor ...
Various views of life in India: street scenes, camping, acrobatics, elephant ride and rural life. Includes an excellent sequence of fishermen beating the water with long poles and retreiving the catch with scoop nets while balancing on ...
Roorkie?: Engineering Training School (could be Knox School?) and Engineering Corps recruit training and regimental sports:
Playing polo. Gymkhana with trick and formation riding, various jolly games, band playing. Swimming in ...
