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Romantic India

Cotton, rice and tea, mountain railways, elephants and buffalo: India’s life, landscape and people through Western eyes.

Travelogue 1935 17 mins

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Overview

Cotton, rice and tea, mountain railways, elephants and buffalo – this survey of India’s life, landscape and people takes the form of a brisk and sunny travelogue. As the title suggests, it’s a rather romanticised Western view of Britain’s biggest colony.

Little is known of CE Hodges, but he seems to have specialised in throwing together English language travelogues out of footage sourced from elsewhere – in this case, possibly material originally shot under government auspices in India, recut by Hodges as diverting domestic entertainment.

Genres
Travelogue
Released
1935
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English

Subjects

British Raj India Indian elephants Bombay Darjeeling Mountains Trains