Title:ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS SCENES IN SOUTHERN INDIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6566
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN A G REID [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Captain A G Reid, a Scottish doctor who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Southern India during the Second World War, primarily showing off-duty scenes with his fellow doctors and nurses and their occasional interaction with Indians.
Description: Reel 1: Long shots of village. Long shots of communal washing and drying area. Close up view of a dog. General view of a statue. General views of a town, people, traffic, streets and statues.
General views of people in a public park. General views of nurses. Nurse holding a
baby. Local sports - donkey race, three-legged race, other races.
Reel 2: Man (Dr Alf Fraser) playing piano. General views of villagers at work, making preparations and decorating a baldachin for a celebration.
Reel 3: MADRAS: General views of landscape. Young man and woman walking up a hill. Long shot of horses. Family picnic. Sunset.Women playing tennis. General view of a town from a hotel.
Reel 4: MYSORE: Uniformed men pitching tent at roadside. Army training exercise. General views of landscape. Roadside picnic. Officers at shooting range. Close up of nurse holding a baby. Long shot of hospital grounds. Close up of flowers. General views of a public park. "JOURNEY TO OOTACAMUND: A DELIGHTFUL HILL STATION. THE RATCHET-DRIVEN MOUNTAIN RAILWAY": General views of the landscape taken from the train. General views of neatly kept houses. Close up of flowers. General views of landscape. "TODAS, POLYANDROUS ABORGINAL TRIBE OF THE NILGIRI HILLS": . Landscape. "THE TODA CATHEDRAL": Cathedral with tiny door. Close up of tribal members. "THE UMBRELLA TREE (A TODA SACRED SPOT)": General view of tree and villagers. "AN EARLY MORNING TRIP THROUGH THE MYSORE JUNGLE ON ELEPHANTS": General views of the elephant ride. Landscape. Hunting party. Three men in pith helmets and rifles getting into a car.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN A G REID [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W (part Colour [Kodachrome])
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 6566
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1940
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Reid, A G1916-05-151983 (Production individual)
