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People riding camels, bullock-carts and an elephant in a market, India.

A busy street market in India. Many pedestrians moving about the area and crossing the street. A camel caravan is seen coming through a huge gateway and proceeding along the street. Several wagons pulled by bullocks are seen. An elephant carrying a rider, wearing a garland of flowers, proceeds slowly along the street.

Date: 1953, September
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028604
Men work and dig out clay near a waterway in India.

Men work near a waterway in India. They dig clay out of the ground and carry it away in baskets on their heads. Boat at waterway in the background.

Date: 1953, September
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028607
People watch Flamingo birds in a zoo, India.

People stand at the raised edge of an enclosure and watch a large flock of Flamingo birds moving about. Other birds occasionally fly through the area.

Date: 1953, September
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028600
A man makes a hooded cobra fight with a mongoose, in India.

A man squats on a table holding a mongoose on a leash, and a hooded cobra snake. He places the two together and they fight. The mongoose quickly grabs the snake in its mouth and the man must separate and bring them together again, several times, in order to keep their fight going for the camera. Several persons watch the activity.

Date: 1953, September
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028605
Man playing a saranqi in a temple, in India

Indian man playing a type of saranqi in a temple, as another man sits at his side. With his feet, the player also controls a pair of sticks at the base of the instrument that beat a rhythm. He sings as he plays.

Date: 1953, September
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028606
Goat offerings being prepared in a temple yard in Calcutta, India.

People stand in a Hindu Temple yard (probably Kali Temple in Calcutta), where young goats are being prepared as offerings to the Goddess Tara.

Date: 1953, September
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028602