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Calcutta India 1930 stock footage and images

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Political leaders of India, including Nehru, Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, and the independence movement in India.

Indian political leaders during the independence movement in India. Crowds gathering in the huge Maidan, urban park, in Calcutta. India proposes the Dominion status after the war, new constitution after the war, representatives in the war cabinet and representatives at the peace conference. A political rally. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a political and spiritual leader of India, during the independence movement. Jawaharlal Nehru, a political leader of the Congress Party, speaks to the Indian Congress Party. The Congress Party includes Hindu and Muslims political leaders. Another Indian leader addresses the party. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a politician and leader of the All India Muslim League, speaks to the Moslems. Pakistani area is highlighted on an animated map of India. A sign:' Hindu Mahasabha'. The political leaders of Hindu Mahasabha talk. Rice cultivation on a farm. A farmer works on the farm. Two sets of cattle plow the farm.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045101
The problem of getting U.S. supplies from Parbatibur in Bangladesh to Chabua in Assam, India during World War II.

A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. An animated map highlights Calcutta in India, Santahar and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. A train loaded with U.S. jeeps and trucks. The trucks and a jeep driven onto flat railroad cars. A train moves on a track. U.S. troops board boats on the banks of the Brahamputra River and are ferried to Pandu. A barge loaded with railroad cars moves towards the ferry point of Pandu. An animated map connects Parbatipur with Dhubri, Pandu and Chabua. Chabua is ultimately connected to Kunming in China. U.S. troops sort and unload supplies at Chabua satellite field.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060489
Allied supplies being transported from Calcutta , India to Kunming, China through United States Army Air Force planes.

Allied supplies reach China for an action against Japanese in China. Allied officers outside a building in China as supplies from India are unloaded from trucks. Boxes piled up in a room. Shells and barrels in a field. A jeep being loaded onto a plane in Calcutta, India. Planes take off. Aircraft in flight. It flies over snow covered mountains. Aerial view of a river. A United States Army Air Force plane comes in for landing in China. Equipment being unloaded from the plane. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042286
The problem of getting U.S. supplies from Calcutta to Santahar through rail road lines during World War II.

A film based on problems of getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. U.S. trucks and jeeps parked at U.S. 28th Air Depot in Calcutta. Indian laborers unload supply crates from the trucks. The supply crates are transported to a dock. A barge at a dock in the Hooghly River. The laborers unload crates from a truck onto a rail road car. A train heads for Santahar. Native laborers unload supplies from the train in Santahar. Heavy trailers on flat rail road cars. The laborers carry gasoline drums on poles. They work around railroad tank cars. The laborers load boxcars with supplies.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060488
Allied supplies are transported from Calcutta , India to Kunming, China through freight train and ship.

Allied action against Japanese in China. Supplies are loaded in a freight ship as it leaves for China from Calcutta, India. Body of trucks loaded onto flat rail road cars. Trucks lined up. Men load bags onto freight trains. They roll down barrels. Tankers are filled with oil. Trucks carry supplies. A freight ship arrives at a port. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042285
Mob of beggars with tattered clothes stand outside a gate, waiting for food, in Calcutta, India.

Mob of beggars with tattered clothes stand outside a gate in Calcutta, India. They come inside the gate. They sit in a line to eat food. People serve them food.

Date: 1931, September 28
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035120