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Wonderful glimpses of the city of Howrah in India in the 1930s in color! (A.I. enhanced & colorized)
About this film
In this film we take another great time travel trip back to India. It is not easy to determine when this film was made considering that so much in India remained largely unchanged around the middel of the 20th century. To judge by the scarce number of cars and buses that appear in this film, it was probably shot in the second half of the 1930s. The film revolves around the town of Howrah, which is the second-largest city after Kolkata located in the Indian state of West Bengal. To be more precise, Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River opposite its twin city of Kolkata. Great views of this river appear in the beginning and a number of times later on in this film. We see splended shots of daily life in Howrah consisting of children playing in the river, elephants at work as well as dressed up in parades, ox and horse drawn carts and buggies, a man vigorously spraying water on the road, presumably to keep down the dust, market scenes and many skilled craftsmen at work, goats, sacred cows and other cattle being driven through the very busy streets and much more. Police men struggle to keep some order among the many pedestrians, cattle, carts with goods motorcars an…
Directors & creators
Ricks Film Restoration
Subjects
India, Howrah, 1930s