Encyclopedia Britannica Films: Inside India and Bushland Symphony

Duration: 8:00

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: Inside India (1948): Beautiful images of buildings and landscape, each segment has a title, outside a mosque with men taking their shoes off, pile of shoes on steps, young Indian boys wearing hats reading from books with teacher wearing turban, CU on teacher and children and the books, footage of cows, New Delhi, two men standing on one side of stick that dips into a well, another man retrieves the water from the well, cows pulling a young boy, men irrigating soil, children in a village feed animals, man lifts load on his back, men doing their laundry in the Ganges, beating the clothes on the stone steps, woman does laundry, shot of clothes lying on the ground in the sun woman kneeling and building an indoor fire, woman kneads bread, rice is cooked in large pan over fire, woman cooks and prepares food to take to two men seated outside, the men grab a piece of chapati with their right hand and scoop up the food with it never using his left hand, man picks up gigantic load and throws it on the back of a lorry to be taken by cow to the market, young woman in fancy dress and jewelry fastens an anklet around her ankle while propping her foot on the seat of a chair, woman pulls veil over her face, men in market have a dancing bear, monkeys dressed in skirts play the drums and dance, women in the fields Bushland Symphony (1960): Titles tell of the history and animals of Australia, koala bears in trees and eating, koala bears playing on a seesaw, koala bears wrestling and playing and riding piggyback, koala eating eucalyptus, koala bear scratching face with back paws, iguana climbing tree to steal eggs, ibis flying and nesting in trees, ibis shown in swamp land habitat, hundreds of ibis flying in the air, kangaroos seen playing sleeping and preening one another, baby kangaroo gets inside mama's pouch, kangaroo running faster than a man on horseback, kangaroo racing is a "bush" sport, emus are seen running across a field, emus run the pace of a kangaroo--FAST--kangaroo and emu in race, CU of kangaroo running,