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Other titles:COLONEL HODGKINSON - AMATEUR FILM [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at refugee camp Punjab, Northwest India.
Description: Brief shot of Lady Mountbatten talking to people at a refugee camp. Two men in a street take leaflets from a man in a bookshop. Refugees in a camp. A refugee camp in front of a large temple. Close-up of refugees. An Indian officer? (cap badge is a white rhino? on a black background) and a man in a suit talk to refugees. Close-up of a man holding a pistol. Two men draw swords and walk past the camera with them held in the air. A building on fire at night.
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 1 min 16 secs ca
Notes: Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date 1942: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked
Similar scenes of Lady Mountbatten also in MGH 6236, the man with the pistol and two men with swords appear in MGH 6230
Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.