Between the Lines: India's Third Gender

Her Excellency Lady Lytton At The Victoria Memorial(en)

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

Kashmir(en)

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

Duke of Connaught's Indian Tour(en)

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal(en)

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

Land of the Elephants(en)

The timber trade calls on animal help.

From England to India by Air(en)

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

Calcutta Topical No. 2(en)

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

Sports in the Indian Army(fr)

A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army.

Procession of Elephants with Howdahs - India(en)

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

Salvation Army Parade in Indian Village No.2(en)

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

Delhi Durbar Dawns(en)

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

A Punjab Village(en)

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

India's forgotten people(en)

Mind of Clay(hi)

In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.

Boll Mo: Sexism in Kosova(en)

A documentary exploring sexism and patriarchy in Kosova.

The Codes of Gender(en)

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.

La trans de la patria(es)

A Road in India(en)

Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

Temples of India(en)

Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythologies associated with them.

The Ramayana(en)

The Little Ballet Troupe of Bombay performs a "puppet ballet" of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.