Indian culture, traditions and early beliefs of India. Streets in an Indian city. Troops come out from a gate. Monuments and a statue in India. Moslems pray. A Hindu holy man sits cross-legged. Temples and religious rituals performed by the Indians. A priest offers sanctified offerings to the people. Pilgrims bathe in the Ganges. A Hindu religious procession. A funeral procession according to the Hindu religion. Hindu orthodoxism. Untouchables sweep streets. The untouchables are excluded from the society. Market stalls and sacred cattle. Wealthy princes and their retinues. A sign on the entrance gate of castle: Long Live Our Maharaja.
British domination is slowly being replaced by democracy in India. A sign:' cleanliness is 2nd to God'. An Indian woman on a street. Political riots in Pakistan. One man serves food and other eats advocating socialism. Views of British domination in India. Indian women attend a class for teaching care of babies. The instructor places a baby on a scale in front of the class. Men work at machines. People are illiterate and are unable to read. Indian laborers work in native industries. A train arrives at Mysore railway station. A sign: Mysore. Buildings and people on the streets of Mysore during the Indian independence movement. Industrial development by using natural resources and creation of employment: Workers work in a factory. A boy turns a wheel. Modernization in Mysore. Hydroelectric dams, irrigation canals and improved streets. Boys in a classroom paint pottery while an instructor draws on the blackboard. Jawaharlal Nehru, the political leader of the Congress Party, speaks to the party. A woman walks while shading herself with an umbrella.
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, of New York City, strikes a slot machine with a large ax. Anti-gambling Officials seen aboard the tugboat "Manhattan" in New York Harbor, as it pushes a barge loaded with slot machines destined for dumping in the Atlantic Ocean. Lettering on the barge reads: "The City Of New York Department of Docks." View of damaged slot machine showing internal wheels. A man's hand seen trying to manipulate the broken machine.
Guests gather in a hotel ballroom, to celebrate New Year's eve, 1936, in Havana, Cuba. The guests are dressed in formal attire. They sit at tables and order drinks and food. One man looks at a paper hat, provided for the midnight festivities. Views of many different tables with many different guests. Dancing couples fill the dance floor.
Activities of bathers near and around a beach area in Bahrain. The view across the water towards beach area in the background at Bahrain. Several bathers on beach. Bathers on a beach, some in water. The bathers are seated around a table. In the background, surf rolls in. A young child digs in sand and plays with his bucket. A young girl drinks from a cup. A woman and a child seated in lawn chairs on the beach. Sheik Faisal Bin Khalid Al Qasmi on his private beach in Bahrain. An American talks with the Sheik. The Sheik in his Arab robes sitting on a chair. An American woman with her young daughter. The Sheik smokes a cigarette. Americans seated around an outdoor table. The Sheik in the background. An American woman with her young child. Arab and American children sit to the right. A man and a child on the beach.
Street scenes in Manama, Bahrain. Streets of downtown Manama. Shops on a street and automobiles parked in the foreground. Pedestrians walk along a street past the shops. A man pushes a stroller along a street. A sign outside one of the shops in Arabic and in English "New Store". Signs outside the shops. A woman leads two children down a street. A woman looks over bolts of material. The material in a store. A sign in Arabic on a shop. A shopkeeper displays some of his cloth.
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