ARMED RIOTERS (MEN DRESSED UP) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ARMED RIOTERS (MEN DRESSED UP) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6230
  • Other titles: COLONEL HODGKINSON - AMATEUR FILM [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: Two Indian men, one holds a long handled axe, the other a rifle. Close-up of a man posing with a pistol. Close-up of part of a hand-made rifle? Close-up of a man demonstrating a pistol. Another close-up of the hand-made rifle? A man with a displays some sort of hand-made weapon? bearing the words 'country mortar'. Two men pose for the camera, one holding a long handled axe, the other two swords (the sword covers hang in front of him, on one the word Kirpan).
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 1947
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 1 min 20 secs ca
  • HD Media:Yes
  • 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 Similar scenes also appear in MGH 6233 Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.
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    MGH 6230

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