"ARRIVAL OF MAH H.R.H. JIND (sic). Inspection of the guard of honour" (5). A train arrives and officers in white topees go forward to meet the Maharaja of Jind, Sir Ranbir Bahadur. He alights from the train and comes forward towards the ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in and around Rangoon, Burma.
No main title. "Famille de Birmans" (5). A village, a group of children walk to camera then turn off the track and enter the garden of a hut (23). LS down street with a temple in the ...
DRAMA. Young officer rescues sweetheart from native uprising on plantation.
Captain Williams visits a plantation in the tropics to see his sweetheart, the owner's daughter. During his stay he rebukes the brutal overseer, Pedro, for his ...
INTEREST. Hippopotamus hunting in Upper Gambia.
Main title. A European hunter with native guides moves through the undergrowth. Two hippos are seen in the river. The hunter shoots and kills one of the hippos. The natives, once they have ...
INTEREST. Killing marabout for feathers.
Two white men, carrying guns, and natives preparing a hide with leaves and branches. The two hunters crawl inside (33). Marabout feeding on carrion used as bait (77). The hunters fire their guns from ...
INTEREST. The shooting of egrets in Africa for their feathers.
Main title (1). A European, in tropical attire, and two African guides crawl through bushland (15). "A colony of egrets" (20). Panning shots of trees with colonies of egrets ( ...
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a swamp. A letter is attached to a stick in the middle of the canoe (14). On the banks of the Nile, the letter is handed over to ...
Main title. Empire Day celebrations in Hyde Park. Lord Roberts (Frederick Sleigh Roberts) is seen talking to some of the personalities present and walking amongst them with a lady (presumably his daughter, Lady ...
Main title. King George V and Queen Mary drive in state to the Crystal Palace for the opening of the Festival of Empire. The royal carriage heads a procession to the palace (68ft).
DRAMA. A British general is captured by a Mahdi. His daughter, is also imprisoned but escapes and summons the Scottish Highlanders who come to the rescue.
No main title. General Dent, a British soldier, in his quarters in the Sudan talking to ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in Gibraltar.
Main title and credit (1). Pan right from sea of the town of Gibraltar (33). Street scenes with pedestrians and army officers with black armbands (52); further street scenes (71); military band and ...
The coronation procession of King George V.
No titles. Two frames with `King George V Coronation' scratched on them. The coronation coach passes through Admiralty Arch into Trafalgar Square (50). The coach passes down Whitehall (120 ...
King George V and Queen Mary en route to the Delhi Durbar. They are greeted at Port Said? and attend a military parade at Sinkat, Sudan.
No main title? "THE KING AND QUEEN DISEMBARK ESCORTED BY LORD KITCHENER THE SIRDAR, SIR REGINALD ...
DOCUMENTARY. A record of the Kearton-Jones expedition to Kenya, in which Colonel Jones and his two cowboys lasso a variety of wild animals, including a lioness, a cheetah and rhinoceros.
Main title (3). [Beginning missing. Porters hired by the ...
DRAMA. Historical. Napoleon ends his days on the island of St. Helena.
Rl.1 In October 1815, Napoleon is brought to the island of St. Helena, as an English prisoner. He receives a friendly welcome from the local inhabitants and some of ...
HISTORICAL DRAMA. Napoleon, having been defeated at Waterloo, is banished to Sant'Elena where he sees visions of his past triumphs, before dying surrounded by his followers.
Note: The archive only holds the eight intertitles, in German (50ft ...
INTEREST. The Maharajah of Kapurthala and his guests on their journey towards the fishing grounds: men riding on elephants (29). A rest period: Indians and Europeans sitting in circles talking and smoking (65). Indian dignitaries bowing at the ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in North Borneo (Sabah).
Main title and credit (10). Village with houses on stilts above water, native canoe crosses scene, bow of yacht seen to right (26). Small merchant vessel (36). Coolies load and unload a ...
INTEREST. The Victoria Falls.
Various shots of the Falls seen from different angles (181). A small boat, manned by Africans, being punted down the Zambesi River and through a stretch of rapids (284 ft).
Note: German titles.
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INTEREST. Apparently a compilation of three or more African travelogues, including material on the port of Mits'iwa in Ethiopia, and Cherry Kearton's Kenya expedition with Colonel "Buffalo" Jones in 1911.
Africans digging a road; a ...
INTEREST. An elephant under the dirction of its trainer moves three large tree trunks over muddy ground (30ft). [16mm].
Note: Contained in MRS CARLISLE'S BABY REELS (296-326ft). The above copy was originally on 9.5mm, the film has been ...
DRAMA. Military adventure set in the Sudan, concerning the rescue of a younger brother by the elder brother disguised as a Dervish priest.
No main title. Two brothers, Alfred and James Lewis are privates in the 12th Lancers. They take supper ...
