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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221261-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1946
Country: India
Location: Bombay,Mumbai
TC Begins: 07:12:49
TC Ends: 07:24:14
Duration: 00:11:25
Riots in Bombay, ca Sep46 British troops, car bomb remains, burned front of house. Damaged building. Troops & ambulance in front of sign: Sandhurst Road. Men carry statues of dieties into water. Shots of men sitting in yard posing for camera. CUs. British troops, various ethnics, prisoner in truck. Rubble on street. Interior of market or ?? probably damaged. 07:15:18 View down street w/ ornate wooden house fronts. Rubble, stones & bomb damage. Men looking. Burned suitcases. Tin shanties. Soldiers talking to locals. Pagoda-like structure. Indians out of back of truck w/ troops. 07:16:59 Indian flag from above center of street. People looking out of windows, soldiers beneath. Riot debris. Men standing about. Busy streets w/ men w/ fez & empty streets. 07:17:44 Long parade of people w/ statues to water, many carry umbrellas. Statues w/ offerings on sand, men clapping. Carried into water. 07:18:27 Soldiers, police & others w/ jeeps & trucks. Man talking on radio beside vehicle. Empty street w/ much rubble. Soldiers marching down street, burned or blasted buses. More men w/ statues. 07:19:41 Main street; ethnic British (?) soldiers. Buildings w/ black flags hanging from front. Army medical trucks; fire trucks around corner & down large street. Troops in trucks down streets. Street activity of locals, army watching. Store fronts w/ flags 07:21:12 British soldiers relaxing. Getting water from Indians. People on balconies looking down. View from rooftop of people in street. Ethnic troops marching along. Arrested man in truck photographed. Street w/ burned trucks, bags, Line of bodies & men w/ handkerchiefs over faces. People out of army truck. Market interior. Crowded street. Large intersection w/ troops sitting about. Street scene w/ men w/ fez walking toward camera. Post-WWII India; British Colonialism; Bombing Aftermath; End of Empire; Religion; Religious Wars; Post-WW2; 1946;