"London, Houses of Parliament, `cameos of the Caribbean' Way out on the Spanish main, where Drake and his sea-dogs chased buccaneers... Lie those sun-kissed isles of romantic beauty, the lovely Leewards Islands. `London to Leewards' a ...
Reel 26: "Pipe band and sports" Indian turbaned troops parade and play pipes. Colonel Hamlin (?, tall bald officer) attends regimental sports day.
Reel 27: "Moplah acrobatics" (ie South India) Muslim men in distinctive white dress perform ...
Reel 8: "Well at Jhak. Shelabagh" (ie Baluchistan) Indians irrigate using cows to draw water from well. Volley ball.
Reel 9: "Srinagar, Kashmir" Tourist scenes of lake and river traffic.
Reel 10: "Barrack building, Wana" (ie Waziristan) ...
Reel 1: "Shall Mills, TPT and Camp". Camel and mule transport. Ambulance truck. Two British officers in solar topees.
Reel 2: "Shall Mills and Tennis, Pishin" (ie Baluchistan). Camel transport. ASD (DSA) on mountainside. Playing tennis. [Film ...
Reel 17: "Shall Mills, Troops and TPT" Indians practise wrestling. Military encampment. Camel transport train.
Reel 18: "11/4th GR Recruits' PT" Indian recruits do PT and learn rifle drill. (Captain Reed was administrative Commandant of 11/4th ...
Amateur footage of scenes in Ethiopia and Addis Ababa at the time of Haile Selassie's coronation, November 1930.
"Leaving Aden". Shots of the shore from ship, pan of shoreline with ships and dhows off Aden. "A country station with ...
Documentary of the work of missionaries and the growth of Methodism in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), highlighting evangelism, education and agricultural development.
Reels one and two missing.
Reel three. Wesley College, Kumasi ...
TRAVELOGUE. Life and work of the peasants of Cyprus. This film consists of material shot for the 1929 film CYPRUS, re-edited and with a sound commentary.
Credits (18). A car drives along a mountain road in Cyprus. A camel caravan. Car approaches ...
Empire Premiers, in Britain for the Imperial Conference witness a tank display (94ft).
India late 1930s or early 1940s, urban street life and European and Indian seaside beach life, including a short sequence of Gandhi walking with a small group of followers towards the shore.
Imperial Airways biplane lands. English dignitaries climbing out. The biplane in a field; people surround it. Pan of exterior of Umaid Bhawan Palace with scaffolding. Another biplane landing in a field.
No titles. An Imperial Airways biplane (G- ...
ACTUALITY. Shots of various birds and reptiles in Northern India.
Forest (16). Flock of birds flying in circles (23). Two white storks swimming and fishing on a pond (66). A succession of birds of various species feeding on a patch of grass. ...
INTEREST. Boys at Bisley School during Empire Day celebrations and performing gym exercises.
[Film broken at the beginning]. "Lt Col Sir Archibald WEIGALL KCMG Inspects the Rank". The Colonel walks down rows of boys and chats to ...
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' ...
Amateur film of British Somaliland taken by Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester. Pan of Berbera. Burco, the headquarters of the Camel Corps. Troops seen exercising. A watering hole. Activities of the natives. Arrival at Malta on the journey ...
Leaving Liverpool. Madeira. Las Palmas. Sierra Leone. Takoradi. Accra. Lagos. Bonny. Port Harcourt.
Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925- ...
Crossing Niger. Young Isaac Waltons. Dancing Class. Asaba, Mbieri, Amawbia. Mbaku (leader run amok) Ugwu-Awba.
Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the ...
Dancing competitions and various masks. Umu-Chuku, Mbaku & Amanuke. Grandfather Maw, Enu-Ugwu-Abaw; Spirit maidens (Aghogho Mmonwui); District Officer mask (Onyeocha)?; Native Police masks. Nibo. Umu-Chuku Maws. Mgbedike masks.
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Girls' dance groups.
Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and Archdeacon on the Niger 1925-1935. He wrote two books ('Niger Ibos' and 'Among the Ibo') about the Ibo of Nigeria, ...
Various scenes on the Niger Delta. River trade. Music. Blacksmith. Mission hospital. Varoius shots of church-going Africans in European dress, numerous African church ministers, African choirboys.
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Various dances and masquerades, possibly at a funeral. Funeral celebrations and sacrifices. Dancing and masks. Final part of film.
Production / Donor Details: George Thomas Basden was a missionary in Nigeria 1900-1935, and ...
Local people and coastal scenes on the Gold Coast around Elmina.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Scenes showing work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Sequence of shots of exterior of gold mine. Men with large dead snake. Sequence of very good group and individual posed shots of local people in traditional costume.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley ...
Scenes include work at a gold processing plant on the Gold Coast
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter Henry Beasley in the Gold Coast in the 1930s.
Various sporting scenes - tennis, sailing, an African sports event with colonial spectators. Includes sack race, bicycle race, women in running race carrying pots on heads.
Production / Donor Details: Film shot by Walter ...
Amateur footage of a journey through China and a visit to Hong Kong.
Rickshaws. Harbour scenes in Hong Kong (?). High level shot of harbour. A Chinese family. Street procession. Harbour scenes, junks, sounding for depth. Up river scenes. Rural ...
INTEREST. The royal residence on Bolghotty Island and the town life and buildings in Cochin, India.
ACTUALITY. Scenes at the leper colony supported by the Baptist Missionary Society at Cuttack in Orissa province.
Two men and two women walk through a wide gate above which an arch bears the sign "Cuttack Leper Asylum 1919" and a banner reads "We ...
New high level road bridge. English lady unpacks her picnic. Busy road with petrol filling station. Carts drawn by heavy oxen. Wells being worked by oxen. Sringer town with its river and river traffic. Kashmir Lakes and pony ...
Passenger life on board ocean liner. Ships wrecked by typhoon? Biplanes making passes at ocean liner. Bombay busy city traffic scenes. 'The Gateway to India'. 'The Taj Mahal Hotel'. Street cavalcade of a Royal Visit?
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Railway station exit at Peshawar. Shop fronts of quiet rural town with close up of the names of tradespeople. Centre of Peshawar with busy narrow streets and bazaars. RAF 'Walrus' seaplane at rural airfield. Wrestling match ...
Journey by car up mountainous roads to Simla through border post. General views of Simla town centre with its buildings and busy street life. British couple go riding in the hills around the town. British military wedding at ...
India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan. Also includes scenes of Indian Army in the field, ...
Delhi War Memorial
Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya.
Military biplanes in flight.
Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya ...
Water polo match in crowded open air lido.
RAF servicemen taking part in football match in winter at altitude in front of beer-drinking spectators.
Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air ...
Voyage on cargo ship along coast of Burma and Malaya to Singapore. Stops
in the cities of Rangoom (Docks, Buddhist Temples, City centre and Zoo) and Kuala Lumpur. Visits to the interior. Holiday hotels.Rubber Plantation ...
Public buildings of Lutyens New Delhi. Street scenes in Old Delhi. Street stalls and pottery shop. Street Dancers. Brtish military officer's residence. Visiting peddlers witih their wares. Visiting musicians. Close study of the ...
Railway journney. Busy station scenes. Buildings of Lutyens, New Delhi.
Indian horse show display. The waters off Bombay docks with sailing dhows. RAF launch with crew and naval ships at anchor. Sunderland Flying boat of ...
Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.
Fox hunting, domestic, ceremonial and countryside.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & Eleanor Loch-Dalyell, parents of British politician Tam Dalyell, during their service in the Empire. Lt.- ...
Indian sea rocky coast. Large thatched hut with Sahib and dog. Light house with Indian on camel. Dusserah at Rewa. Prince on elelphant taking part in parade with Indain troops, mounted lancers and marching band. Military parade at ...
Camel riding. Local women drawing water from well and carrying it home. Bullock carts and their drivers. Englishman plays with his dog on seaside beach near thatched hut.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by ...
Ahmadzar (North West Frontier?): Constuction of Dam by labouring gangs. Bullock teams and labourers. British man and woman on site. Band of local musicians.
Production / Donor Details: These cine films were shot by Gordon Loch & ...
North West Frontier. Local tribesmen. Defensive town walls. Market or Bazaar outside the high walls of fortified border town. Camel carrying timber load. Race course meeting. Memsahib plays with dogs in grounds of residence.
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Holy Men/Beggars set up begging bowls watched by Mensahib. Mountain fishing expedition by Memsahib and Sahib. Donkey carrying large paddle like load. Large group of standing Sahibs hold planning meeting in mountains.
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