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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: India’s War Effort

Date released

5 Feb 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

661A

NoS ID

012132

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Indian War Effort. DESCRIPTION: The manpower of India is being harnessed to the war effort. Steel production as been increased and so are munitions. SHOTLIST: Map of the Indian Empire....

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RAF Men for Himalayas

Date released

1 Jun 1961

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

61/44

NoS ID

109720

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Personnel of climbing exhibition demonstrate equipment.

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Trading Societies of Western Nepal (1972 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

Discusses the traditional trans-Himalayan trade links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by...

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River Indus Agreement

Date released

26 Sep 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1634

NoS ID

023789

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: River Indus. DESCRIPTION: Rising in the Himalayas, the Indus flows on through the Northern plains to become, with its 5 tributaries, one of the world’s greatest river systems. For...

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Adaptable Kingdom, The: Music and Dance in Nepal (1994)

Director

Deben Bhattacharya

Producer

Deben Bhattacharya

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £19.95

A film on the Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas where tribal animism, Buddhism and Hinduism live in harmony. In the folklore of Nepal, religious mask dances accompanied by the sound of large barrel drums...

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The Holy Ganges

Date released

26 Apr 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1716A

NoS ID

024606

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Holy Ganges. DESCRIPTION: While we were celebrating Easter, Hindus were assembling to celebrate their Kumbh festival. Coinciding with the conjunction of three planets, the festival...

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Mount Everest expedition (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an expedition to climb Mount Everest from a new route in Tibet, led by British mountaineer Chris Bonington. Includes interviews with expedition members: Chris Bonington, Dr Charles Clarke, Peter...

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Nanga Parbat Conquered

Date released

6 Aug 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1261A

NoS ID

018668

Story no

1 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nanga Parbat Conquered. DESCRIPTION: Nanga Parbat - the eighth highest mountain in the world has been climbed at last, by the Austro-German Expedition. When the climbers reached...

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Kashmir

Date released

14 Apr 1966

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

590

NoS ID

121747

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: A wool-gathering girl from the Himalayas - and a sophisticate from London, and what’s the link? The Kashmir Kid from the hills who has never seen a motor car and the cashmere sweater girl...

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Xi Ma la Ya Wang Zi (2006 Film)

aka: Prince of the Himalayas

Director

Sherwood Hu

Producer

Sherwood Hu

Feature film. Hamlet transplanted to the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Jiabo. The prince, Lhamoklodan (Rgyal) has returned from his studies in Persia to find his father is dead and his mother has married his...

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