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Silent. English intertitles. With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) is a British documentary film. The film is silent and made in the Kinemacolor additive color process. The film records the 12 December 1911 celebrations in India which marked the coronation of George V and Mary of Teck and their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India.
- Natural Color Kinematograph Company
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Joseph De Frenes Albuin Mariner Alfred Gosden Hiram Horton
- Charles Urban
25 mag 2021 · The Maharaja spent months preparing for the King’s visit, cutting roads for miles through the jungle. The Maharaja had 645 elephants ready for the hunting expedition. Records from the time tell how the King shot one tiger, wounding it badly, before a second tiger was killed by the King with a ‘snap-shot through the neck as if he had been a rabbit’.
2 feb 2022 · When the young Edward, Prince of Wales, landed at Bombay in 1921, he could be forgiven for thinking that all was well in India. Before a crowd well-stocked with government officials and army officers, he delivered a textbook speech attesting to his desire to “appreciate at first hand all that India is, and has done, and can do.”
King’s arrival in India’s capital, a later flight took them to Bombay on 9 February. The three travelers were shocked by the hungry and homeless people they observed while driving to Bombay’s Taj Mahal Hotel. “The sight of emaciated human beings wearing only a dirty
One of King’s most memorable experiences was residing at Mani Bhaven, Gandhi’s Bombay residence. He noted in the guestbook: “To have the opportunity of sleeping in the house where Gandhiji slept is really an experience I will never forget” (Papers 5:134).
Mounting political unrest prompted the first visit to South Asia of the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King George V and Queen Mary). Their tour lasted from November 1905 to March 1906 (fig. 36) and was (indeed still is) the most extensive and far-reaching royal visit ever undertaken. [6] Facing opposition at home and in India, Curzon ...
Description. The Queen and Prince Philip walk beneath the Gateway of India, Bombay, on their way to the Atomic Energy Establishment at Trombay. A monumental arch stands above them with carpeted steps in the foreground. Indian Naval Officers on left.
