Duke of Connaught's Indian Tour.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals.

Hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (3 minutes, 9 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1921.

Summary:

DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S INDIAN TOUR Main Title. "Mounted on an elephant the Duke goes hunting in the Bengal jungle" An elephant with several people on its back passes in front of the camera (27). "From his shooting platform the Duke makes his first 'bag'". He mounts onto a roughly made camoflauged platform in a tree (59); Indian servants reconnoitre, shot of the Duke inspecting an animal he has shot (110). "The hunting camp". The hunting party and the Indian servants sitting around their camp fire eating (142); the Duke inspecting his elephant and the heads of captured animals, close-up of the Duke eating.

Notes:

Issue number: 496-2 ; Story number within issue: 2 of 3

Note: Issue number not known but assumed to belong to this issue on account of its length (issue book length is 139ft which would not include intertitles).

Series: Topical Budget.

This film includes footage which some people may find disturbing.

With intertitles.