All Colour Reel: Monsoon Festival

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2357A

Date Released

8 Aug 1974

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Section Title

All Colour Reel

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Festival of Monsoon in India. DESCRIPTION: The monsoon brings seasonal rain by which agricultural India lives or dies. The people celebrate with the festival of Monsoon at Jaipur. SHOTLIST: GV Jaipur landmark, Palace of Wind. GV elephants moving along with people and traffic. MS crowd. MCU 2 Indian men. MS Sunflower Standard of Festival is carried in. MS Indian woman watches. MS caparisoned [sic] elephants coming out of palace gate which marks start of procession. MS elephant gives salute with its trunk. MS elephants lead procession. GV procession lead by elephants. MS elephant in procession. GV procession past large crowds. MS camels in procession pan to wild pig following. GV bullock carts in procession. MS crowd watching. MS native dance. MCU man playing drum. MS dance. MS crowd. MS Goddess of Rain is carried in procession pan with her.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Agriculture; Celebrations and festivals; Animals; Religion and belief

Locations

India; Jaipur

Card file number

74/88

Credits:

Commentator: Leonard Martin
Camera: Mohan Parkash

Length of story (in feet)

113

Story extras:

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