Part of India on Film: 1899 - 1947
This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council. View more films on BFI Player player.bfi.org.uk/collections/... (UK only)
The structures of North India - Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing. The film includes fascinating footage of Delhi, Ludhiana and Amritsar, in particular.
The structures of North India fascinate construction magnate and missionary John W. Laing, including the large scale astronomy instruments of Jantar Mantar, founded in 1723. Today, Jantar Mantar lies at a traffic hub and is the meeting point for New Delhi protests. Laing captures missionary life: church services, a school for poor children with a white female teacher, and a doctor tending to the sick.
The Indians John Laing captures are equally interested - not in him - but in the technology he is using, particularly the camera and the car. It is likely this footage was shot in early 1947, before Independence and Partition.
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Негізгі бет Фильм және анимация Delhi and The North (1947) - also filmed in Amritsar, Ludhiana and Agra
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