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Title: BOMBAY

Reference number: 8305

Date: 1941*

Director: [filmed by Richard H.S. Irvine]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.18 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a train journey through India and views from a balcony in Bombay (now Mumbai).

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(0.00) blank (0.03) tracking shot from train window travelling through countryside, fields and hills - shots at station, beggar, young woman, Sikh boy holding flowers - tracking shots of workers at track-side, mountains in distance, fort on hilltop, floating huts on lake, houses - under-exposed shots of people at station and in bazaar (1.33) gvs from hotel? window in Bombay (now Mumbai), ships anchored at sea, car passing along street below [section of under-exposed interiors] gvs of surrounding buildings and rooftops, including large Capstan tobacco billboard - [under-exposed int shots] - high shots of taxi and people in street below, side of building, rooftops - gvs of surrounding buildings (3.14) blank (3.18)