Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.
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"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The film presents the most important cities, royal residences and temple precincts. It follows the trail of different religious denominations, which have influenced India up to the present day. Simon Busch and Alexander Sass travelled for months through the north of the Indian subcontinent to discover what is hidden under India’s exotic and enigmatic surface, and to show what is rarely revealed to foreigners. The film deals with daily life in India. In Varanasi, people burn their dead to ashes. At the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious gathering of the world, 35 million pilgrims bathe in holy River Ganges. This is the first time India is presented in such an alluring and engaging fashion on screen.
The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A Suitable Girl follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. The film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.
An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.
This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.
What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?
A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.
Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed by Mumbai's inhabitants to adapt and get around any type of constraint or obstacle posed by the city's urban structure. In a relatively small piece of land where 21 million people live today, the inhabitants of Mumbai demonstrate great creativity when it comes to managing the spaces (for sale, for prayer, for traffic) and the flows that cross them every day. Without using language, Hong Kong artist Chak Hin Leung brings together in this video a dozen unique situations in which people, animals, vehicles and natural elements intermingle and brush up against each other, without ever colliding.
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