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  • Title: GOVERNMENT HOUSE BODYGUARD [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6223
  • Other titles: COLONEL HODGKINSON - AMATEUR FILM [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: Close-up of a lamp? on the side of a building with a crown on top. Scenes of the Governor General's Bodyguards (mounted Sikhs with red tunics), Government House, New Delhi. Detailed close-up of one of the guard. Close-up of a Scottish piper. The Indian troops ride towards the camera. Close-up of a guard. Close-up of British mounted officer? Shots of detail on uniform. Shots of the officer standing next to his horse.
  • 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 Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 2 mins 40 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 shots also in MGH 6251 Summary: subject related to Partition of India in August 1947.
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    MGH 6223

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