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Title: ROAD JOURNEY IN INDIA

Reference number: 8317

Date: 1941*

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

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.01 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a road journey through the North-West Frontier area of India around the start of WW2, including shots of armed local men, landscape and fortifications.

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(0.00) blank (0.02) brief tracking shot from vehicle travelling across barren terrain, hill with forts in mid distance (0.10) blank (0.18) shots of two men digging hole in road with spade and rope - brief shot of horse and carriage - underexposed shots of Sikh soldier? in uniform - brief c/u of Richard Irvine - gvs of camels being prepared for journey - tracking shots from vehicle across barren scrubland, passing forts on hills, mountains in distance, group of armed local men by road - tracking shots of army truck travelling along road through hills, gvs landscape, passing large fort and another fort on hilltop, brief shot crossing bridge, gvs landscape, hills and mountains - shots passing truck with armed local men on top, settlement on hill, scrubland (2.58) blank (3.01)