Stavridi Collection

Stavridi Collection – Film 6

B&W. 4:08min. Location unknown. c.1940. Film made by Alexander G. Stavridi(?). Music-hall performance. For additional films made by Margaret and Alexander Gregory Stavridi see www.imagesofempire.com

Stavridi Collection – Film 5

Colour. 4:09min. Location unknown, India. c.1940. Film made by Alexander G. Stavridi(?). Cavalry parade. Detailed portraits of cavalry. Cavalry show jumping competition. For additional films made by Margaret and Alexander Gregory Stavridi see www.imagesofempire.com

Stavridi Collection – Film 4

B&W. 4:59min. Location unknown, India. c.1940. Film made by Alexander G. Stavridi(?). Beach scene. Feeding turtles. Fishermen with boats and fishing nets coming to the shore and showing their catch. For additional films made by Margaret and Alexander Gregory Stavridi see www.imagesofempire.com

Stavridi Collection – Film 3

B&W. 4:37min. Lahore, India (Pakistan). c. 1940s. Film made by Alexander G. Stavridi(?). Bazaar scenes. General and detailed scenes of Lahore Fort and gardens. For additional films made by Margaret and Alexander Gregory Stavridi see www.imagesofempire.com

Stavridi Collection – Film 2

Colour/B&W. 17:39min. Darjeeling, India. c. 1940s. Film made by Alexander G. Stavridi(?). Steam train – ‘Darjeeling mail’. Logo: ‘Darjeeling Himalayan Railway’. Train journey filmed form a train carriage. Ghoom Monastery. Darjeeling hill station and street scenes. Hiking across Tiger Hill. Yiga Chholing Monastery Ghoom. Various portraits of local communities and shepherds. For additional films made by Margaret and Alexander Gregory Stavridi see www.imagesofempire.com

Stavridi Collection – Film 1

Colour/B&W. 12:07min. Bombay (Mumbai), India. c. 1940s. Film made by Alexander G. Stavridi(?). Deck games. Passengers sunbathing on the upper deck. People wearing lifejackets for a lifeboat drill. Passengers steamship ‘Strathmore’. Gateway of India, Bombay (Mumbai). Train station, Cuttack (Orissa state); river scenes filmed from a train. Kendrapara Road sign. Village scenes: European woman by a bus; bullock cart and monkey on top of the load (chalk mark reading ‘Lion’); European woman and a party of Indian men walking on a countryside road; Indian children running towards the camera; portraits of various Indian children; of an Indian man and his three boys (pupils?); general scenes of villagers. For additional films made by Margaret and Alexander Gregory Stavridi see www.imagesofempire.com