Gold Coast. Kumasi Saw mill: chipping machinery with wheels and pulleys in full action and being fed by workmen. Two British supervising are glimpsed out side the building. Workmen at Cement mixing plant on building construction site ...
Inauguration of Ashantehene.
See Jackon Collection 1 - fireworks and crowds pushing forward to meet Ashantehene but very underexposed.
Production / Donor Details: Donor's grandfather, Sir Francis Walter F Jackson was ...
Northern Territories Gold Coast. This is dark and rather indistinct footage apart from the final sequence. Group of local girls bathing at waterside of riverbank. Girls dancing. General scenes of village people. British brick out ...
Filmed in Kenya, footage of a military parade including soldiers marching and the regiment's mascot.
Detailed exploration of the Red Fort at Agra with close attention to the architectural features. Distant views of the Taj Mahal framed in windows of Red Fort.
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John ...
Delhi and Quitab. Detailed scenes of the Red Fort. Humayun Mausoleum, Kwat-Ul-Mosque, Kitb Minar. Lodi Tomb. Views of exterior of Holy Temple at Amristar.
Production / Donor Details: These films were shot by Colonel John ...
Kashmir. Formal gardens of Mogul lakeside palace. Ornate flowers;orchards. Houseboats moored at the lake. Canal trade. Town scape of lake side town. Outdoor potter working with his wheel Grand lady memsahib inspecting her large garden ...
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).
Large social picnics for Europeans carrying on life just as though in England. Bombay waterfront from the sea. Visit by Naval gunboat. Holiday on offshore island. The very busy commercial traffic carried on by Indian ocean-going ...
