Title:1937 77 FD BTY AT MHOW. I LEAVE (FOR) INDIA [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 317-3
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM OF TRAVELS THROUGH INDIA, CEYLON AND HONG KONG BY COLONEL S MONTAGU CLEEVE [Alternative Title]
Summary: Sea journey through the Mediterranean and Middle East en route to India.
Description: [Colour] Filmed from the deck of the ship (P & O Christal?) - a steam yacht at Stromboli, southern Italy. Mount Etna in the distance. Port Said, the ship enters the Suez Canal. Indian woman in saris play quoits on deck. Cargo ships pass by including DUCA DEGLI ABNIZZI and EL KAUTARA. Sunset over the Red Sea.
[B&W] Sunrise over Aden. Colonel Cleeve's bunglaow. Arrival of a camel train from the Interior. Scenes of Arabs and Somalis at the bazarre. Leaving Aden. Arrival at Bombay. Lady Anna Hope and Lord Linlithgow leave the ship. A royal bodyguard awaits to escort the ashes of the Maharani of Udaipur.
[Colour] Monsoon rains pouring off the roof of Colonel Cleeve's bungalow at Mhow. Shots of the garden and Rowena his polo pony. Watering and feeding the horses. RK 'Dick' Page walks between the feeding troughs. Colonel Cleeve on horseback in front salutes.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM OF TRAVELS THROUGH INDIA, CEYLON AND HONG KONG BY COLONEL S MONTAGU CLEEVE [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour (Ektachrome) (part B&W)
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 317-3
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1937
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Cleeve, Stewart Montagu1894-10-201993-01-05 (Production individual)
