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Title: SIMLA

Reference number: 8303

Date: 1941*

Director: [filmed by Richard H.S. Irvine]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 4.02 mins

Description: Amateur footage of Simla (Shimla) in the north of India and surrounding countryside in winter.

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Shotlist: [shot-listed from .AVI file using Quicktime]

(0.00) blank (0.03) over- and under-exposed shots of mountain landscape - dark shots of people walking down path from station? holding umbrellas - shots of snow falling on trees, people walking along path in snow, man carrying bundle - c/u of shop? sign 'Glamour' - gvs of town under snow (1.20) shots of men on balcony looking through binoculars, smoking, reading a book - blank - shot of woman walking towards camera - shot of man displaying inscribed Japanese flag over veranda railing, c/u shot of flag, possibly related to Army School of Japanese Studies in Simla? - gvs of surrounding countryside, hills, buildings and snow - shot of man with stick climbing hill and brief shot of monkey on roof - gvs of workers repairing road, dressing stones - sign 'Danger - Road Under Construction' - pan across mountains - shot of man walking up hill, followed by two women being pushed and pulled in rickshaws and older man on horseback (4.00) blank (4.02)