RURAL SCENES AND OFF-DUTY ARMY LIFE IN NORTHERN INDIA [Main Title]

Log in to create clips, download free screeners and save clips/films in Collections. Click here to find out more.


  • Title: RURAL SCENES AND OFF-DUTY ARMY LIFE IN NORTHERN INDIA [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 4527
  • Other titles: AMATEUR FILM BY COLONEL ALEXANDER SIMSON [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Untitled amateur film, shot by Royal Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Alexander Simson (1894-1980), records contrasting activities of British and Indians in India: Indian watering lawn from hide sack, cow cart along "Chapel Road", British men playing golf aided by Indian caddies, Indians sawing timber and herding sheep, cows and water buffalo, Briton filming with 16mm amateur camera in mountainous area of Northern India, native dancing to drums and British playing tennis.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: AMATEUR FILM BY COLONEL ALEXANDER SIMSON [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: MGH 4527
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (MGH 4527)
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 1935
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Simson, Alexander Macdonald (Colonel) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords:
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: ca 300 ft; Running time: ca 13 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 4527

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:
Register