Archive / Films / Hunter Collection – Film 6

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B&W. 7:47min. Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1928-1932. Film made by C. F. Hunter. Scenes of road works showing all stages of road and bridge building. Loading mules with boulders from river; re-mettaling a road; tarring surface; mixing sand and cement; Indian women carrying pans of sand on their heads; men carrying bricks on head across river; carpenters at work; scenes of dismantiling an old bridge. (film with intertitles)

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