An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.
Social & External
Alice Diop's enchanting short film, a work of transcendent transformation, shows how the rough lines of Drancy station are immortalized in watercolor by the French artist Benoît Peyrucq. A tribute to a location fraught with historical and contemporary poignancy.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.
A volume of additional footage from the 1950s and 1960s series. Highlights include an insider's view of York signal box, the new 'Midland Pullman', and steam over Shap in 1963.
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Thirty-three shots based on the landscapes of the Isère region near Vienne. A work of observation on light, the dilation of Time, wind, calm and storm.
A stunning trek from the vale of Kashmir, via Sind Valley and Kargil and Lamayaru Monastry.
EB Films presents a documentary on the life of the freight train in America.
Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.
A documentary outlining the railroad's roll in expanding the nation.
A Union Pacific production outlining the Big Boy locomotive and the history of the last great steam engine to rule the rails
A documentary on the passing of the steam locomotive as the primary means of transportation in the United States
A documentary on the railroads of America produced by the Association of American Railroads
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.
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.
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
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