Other titles:COLONEL HODGKINSON - AMATEUR FILM [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Travelogue about Kashmir, shot after Indian Independence and the creation of Pakistan.
Description: Handpainted illustration of sunrise behind mountains and a line of (Indian) people stretching into the distance. Titles are superimposed over images. "The Changing East" "Kashmir" "Produced by Frank Outram" "Edited by Frank Outram and Frank Worth" "Maps and titles by Khin Maung, Charles Front, Harriet Morison"
A map of the world, focusing in on India. India and Pakistan are labelled, then surrounding countries. (Kashmir is labelled separately) [These stills are on screen for quite a while - they would have been accompanied by a spoken commentary]
Aerial view (from hillside) of Dal Lake and houseboats. Scenes of houseboats from the lake itself. Althya on a houseboat. Several men punt the boat to shore and moor it. An old man with a stringed instrument (small sitar-type), arrives on a boat at Althya's houseboat. She sits on the edge of the boat with a music manuscript book and they sing together. A group of men drumming on a boat, and smoking from a houkah pipe. A group of women (with very large earrings) singing together. A boat laden with flowers arrives at Althya's houseboat. She buys some flowers, and tastes some fruit.
A fisherman on a boat uses a spear to catch a fish. Two men on the water's edge catch fish with a net. A man holds a kingfisher. View from a boat passing through waterlilies.
Althya, wearing a sari, plays a drum and sings with a man. Close-up of waterlilies.
Althya waves from her houseboat at a shikara arriving (a sign on the boat reads "Night and Day on Full Spring Seats - Mohamed Sidiq" A man and a sapniel dog board Althya's houseboat. Shots of a group of friends on the shikara (named Tempest).
Scenes of the lake, ducks. Shot from behind of a small boy rowing from the front of a boat. Birds in the reeds, nests and eggs amongst the reeds. More birds (terns?) and small chicks.
Althya and two women on a shikara. A very young boy rowing at front of boat. They arrive at the Shalimar Gardens (Shalimar Bagh). Beggars at the steps. Althya and two women walk around the gardens, scenes of flowers and fountains. Views of the lake and surrounding mountains.
Views of paddy fields. Farmers and cattle poughing the paddy. People planting rice, then harvesting crops.A man passes by with huge bundle on his head. A man carrying a yoke walks his cattle through a field of goats.
Men roll logs down a hill to the river, then roll them downriver. Barges stacked with logs on the river. Other boats laden with vegetables. A family on a boat. Men dredging weeds (?) from bottom of the lake and stacking them on the boat. People cut vegetables growing on the lake. More vegetables on boats. A very brief scene of vegetables being sold at a market.
Alternative Title:COLONEL HODGKINSON - AMATEUR FILM [Allocated Series Title]
