I. Helsinki prepares for 1940 Olympics. Reportedly unaffected by world events, Finland makes final preparations for the Olympics, advertised on an English poster for 20 July to 4 August 1940. Views of the Finnish capital include the waterfront, ...
AMATEUR FILM. Ripon Falls (now damned); native fisheries on Lake Victoria (canoes made of long boards sewn together). The Uganda mail train arriving at Jinja. Women washing clothes at the side of the Own Falls. Crossing the Nile by boat. ...
Amateur film following the progress of Dr. Taylor's party on their route to Ukhrul as they give medical aid to the sick of the villages through which they pass.
Depicts work of London Missionary Society at the Union Boys' High School at Bishnupur, near Calcutta, India.
A settler arrives at Mombasa and proceeds by lorry to his future home. The film shows his first herd of cattle, horses, and sheep, and his first harvest.
'The prospective settler lands at Mombasa' and the film then follows his ...
The training of students at the Tanganyika Veterinary Department, Mpwapwa.
The film opens with a line of African men in uniform who have been selected for a course in which they will learn 'the future of animal husbandry'. A European ...
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 ...
Scenes in the neighbourhood of Kappali, Burma, the site of a S.P.G. mission station.
Villages, homes, and workshops in Sri Lanka.
Amateur footage of the events, including, the arrival of the SS Vita off the Kutch coast with the Maharaj of Kutch; landing at Mandvi; the residency, Bhuj; a leopard shoot at the fort of Bhujia; camp life at Mundra; crocodile shooting; and a visit to ...
Amateur film of Sir John Anderson (Governor of Bengal) to the Chittagong Hills (present-day Bangladesh).
