Uti (1925)
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
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Annual Inspection of the Bodyguard by His Excellency Lord Lytton (1925)
The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Peshawar, The Khyber Pass and Rawl Pindi (1922)
The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour
Khyber Pass; Kashmir; Agra (1928)
Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.
Dancers at Trivandrum Gopinath (1946)
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.
The Rumba Kings (2021)
In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African tunes with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying Congolese rumba, a style that conquered the entire continent thanks to an infectious rhythm, captivating guitar sounds and smooth vocals.
Mysore Dasara (1933)
The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.
Government House Garden Party (1923)
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
Delhi to the North West Frontier (1935)
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
Lahore (1936)
Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
Ajmer (1937)
Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Gangtok and Sikkim Trip (1935)
Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.
Old Barak (1947)
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Pindi Events (1940)
Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.
Kashmir (1941)
An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.
Eine Fahrt ins Märchenland Indien (1930)
Short documentary on India
Imphal Bazaar (1934)
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Local Scenes in India and the Taj Mahal (1947)
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.
Gardens of the Orient (1936)
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
Melting Snow (2021)
Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.
Stars of Cabaret (1956)
A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.