Goods transportation: ferry and junks on the waterfront; lorries; coolies carrying a variety of goods along roads. Passenger transportation: ocean liners - `Ajax'; `Aramis'; `Empress of Japan'; and `Chitral'; harbour ferries; motor buses; ...
The forests and the mahogany timber industry of British Honduras.
Amateur film of the 7th Gurkha Rifles mounting guard outside the Viceregal Lodge in Simla on 7 October 1938. The Viceroy inspects the detachment of Gurkhas, who play pipes then march past.
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Summary based on viewing and writing by A V ...
Indian village life including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.
Peasant life in a village in Rajputana. Early morning in the village; worshippers enter a Hindu temple as a gong is sounded (155). The village well; peasants, though ...
Amateur film of a family visit to the Northwest Frontier, India.
A woman walks in front of a palace/temple. Smoke coming out of a tower in the palace/temple. Two stone elephants flank the entrance. Views of the ...
Ship voyage to India. Baby Lucinda in India with her mother in the domestic surroundings of the family home and garden.
Production / Donor Details: The collection comprises two sets of films. The early films were made by Lady ...
Amateur footage by J.N. Jeneid (tour manager with Thomas Cook) of scenes(?) shot in West Africa, the Canaries and Tenerife - probably on a Thomas Cook tour)
Amateur film of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua, with some shots of Miami and Havana.
A parable set in Palestine at the time of Christ.
Depicts the work of the London Missionary Society mission ship, John Williams V (launched 1930), and the role of the ship in the life of the mission. Voyage from Suva to Samoa and the Ellice Islands.
Photographed at Mindolo and Nkana, N. Rhodesia. Depicts work to improve levels of literacy in the mining compounds and surrounding settlements of the Copper Belt, including the Mindolo mission press run by the London Missionary Society for the ...
