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Title:CALCUTTA & RAILWAY STATION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6229
Other titles:COLONEL HODGKINSON - AMATEUR FILM [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: A crowd of people at a railway station, Acharya J B Kripalani in the centre. People sit in the street selling goods. A brief shot of a fakir? View of the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta.
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 30 secs ca
Notes: Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked
Acharya Kripalani was President of the Indian National Congress (Nov 1946 - Aug 1947) and steered the organisation through the critical days of the transfer of power
Railway station scenes continued from MGH 6228. Offcut from MGH 6245.
Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.