Hilton Hotel Construction

Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the desk clerk, who paints watercolours and pastels; J...

We Protest: 80,000 descend on Hyde Park to demonstrate against Hitler’s antisemitism.

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.

Made to foster relations between the local residents of Rhymney, in south Wales, and the church.

An array of vintage vehicles - horse-drawn, two and four-wheeled - pass through Hyde Park in the annual Easter Parade.

A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.

Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

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

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.