Derby c.1938 - Eisner Personal Film
Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.
The Hilton Hotel rises from the ashes, surrounded by derelict houses and bomb damaged streets.
Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.
We Protest: 80,000 descend on Hyde Park to demonstrate against Hitler’s antisemitism.
Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the desk clerk, who paints watercolours and pastels; Jonesy, a janitor who talks about bedbugs; Bruce, a voluble alcoholic who makes runs for residents, picking up beer or sandwiches for them and sharing his philosophy with us; Vinnie, on methadone, caring for caged birds; Cashmere, a prostitute, the only woman at the hotel; Earl, who works downstairs in the Bowery's last factory, and Mike, the general manager, who talks about the changing face of the Bowery. The film concludes with tourists outside the Sunshine, hearing from Seth Kamil of Big Onion Walking Tours.
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.
Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.
Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.