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Title: INDIA

Reference number: 8333

Date: 1935* / 1936*

Director: [filmed by Arthur E.S. Irvine & family]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 17.40 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the Irvine family in India, including shots of Lahore, the Golden Temple at Amritsar, a forest lumber yard, street and market scenes and trainers with performing animals and birds.

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(0.00) blank (0.03) shots of Indian parrot trainer sitting on ground in garden, his parrots performing tricks, including rolling over, picking playing cards, going through hoop, turning merry-go-round, picking coins - shots of pigeon pulling parrot on cart, local children and adults watching - shots of parrot turning wheel and firing cannon - shots of trainer displaying parrots (2.55) shots of snake charmer performing tricks and displaying cobra - shots of trainer with monkeys performing standing and jumping tricks, another trainer in background with small bear performing tricks - shots of bear walking and jumping, wrestling with trainer - shots of young Indian girls watching - gvs of gardens (6.14) gvs of monument at junction, policeman directing traffic, women walking past, vendors selling food at road side - street scenes with horses and carts, 'Kashmir and Kabul Stores' and 'Pullars' signs in background - vendors walking past selling braces and trinkets - shot of two men sawing (7.19) gvs on farm, men with oxen and ox-carts, oxen and camel turning water-wheel, ploughing with oxen, oxen pulling heavy carts along road - shots of cattle in field around water-wheel - shots of woman brushing pathway with broom - shots of people passing along main road - shots of woman beating carpet, man watering grass with water bags (10.09) gvs crowded street / market scenes, vendors selling food, cloth, household utensils - shots of man with withered legs passing on all fours - shot of stall selling suitcases - shots of carpenters at work constructing packing cases (11.31) gvs in countryside of oxen turning water-wheels, men washing clothes at open wash-house, farmers and oxen, local people (12.30) gvs of Golden Temple at Amritsar - shot of Evelyn Irvine with tour guides - more gvs of Golden Temple and surrounding buildings - shot of man washing at public tap - gvs of people at river side - gvs of waterfall running down gorge, Frances Irvine? walking in foreground - shots of local people fording stream at waterfall, including man carrying sack of sticks - shots of local people and mules passing along woodland path - gvs forest and valley in distance - gvs of cattle and sheep on rocky slopes - shots of Evelyn and Frances walking past hut - shots of men in lumber yard with lioness and dog - gvs of men in yard carrying large planks of wood - shot of local men walking up path - gvs of lumber yard and forest - shot of local children - gvs of forest, lumber yard, goats on rocky slope - shot of Frances walking towards camera - brief shot of Arthur Irvine standing on rock (17.37) blank (17.40)