Home Movie: 001088 (silent)

Description: Content warning: Contains a live animal sacrifice at 10:45.

Travel footage of India and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) filmed by white tourists, including street scenes, trained animals, historical sites, and locals bathing in the Ganges River.

Note in can: "India / Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Ganges and Hindus / natives bathing"

Reel note: "Reels #1-2-3"

More information on the S.S. Franconia: www.chriscunard.com/history-fleet/cunard-fleet/1900-1930/franconia/ (accessed 1/14/2025)

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Subjects: 1920s, Tourism, Asian and Pacific Islander history and culture, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Religion, Human-animal relationships, Leisure and recreation, Colonialism

Tags: acrobats; street performers; contortionists; panning shots; cityscapes; vistas; cloches; horses; horse racing; race tracks; jockeys; lions; streetscapes; people looking at camera; street scenes; cows; bathing; fountains; acrobatics; handstands; yokes; oxen; carrying poles; carrying things on head; street barbers; streetcars; dancing; drummers; pigeons; street scenes; Ganges River; Elephanta Caves; sightseeing; snakes; cobras; weasels; fighting snake and weasel; landscapes; filmed from moving vehicle; stupas; rivers; laundry; washing clothes in the river; people on riverbank filmed from boat; slaughtering a goat; calf statue; cooking; palm readings; wooden carts; Delhi, India; Taj Mahal; Agra; Fatepur-Sikri; maps; Newara Eliya, Ceylon; elephants; tree climbing; coconuts; palm trees; winnowing; harvesting; agriculture; Kandy, Ceylon; wagons; gardens; elephants as livestock; using elephants for labor; posing for camera; cheetahs; sailing; caged animals; windy; S.S. Franconia; travel and exploration

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0346, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1920s

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Geographical Location: India; Bombay, India; Benares, India; Varanasi, India; Agra, India; Fatehpur Sikri, India; Sri Lanka; Ceylon; Newara Eliya, Sri Lanka; Newara Eliya, Ceylon; Kandy, Sri Lanka; Kandy, Ceylon; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Colombo, Ceylon

Genre/Form: home movie

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: duplicate reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: none

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 480