Delhi Video - Life in Year 1930
See this Delhi Video of 1938, you will love the 1938 feel!
Shot by the legendary Jack Cardiff - the Oscar-winning cinematographer of 'Black Narcissus' - this is one of a number of short films that he made in India in the late 1930s. As much a study to show off his brilliant Technicolor photography as it is a portrait of Delhi, this film presents the city - and the period - as rarely seen before.
After a brief historical and architectural preamble, the film moves into an extended sequence that shows the Jama Masjid and stunningly coloured saris among the gardens of the Red Fort. Then it's off to New Delhi to see how the British (in the form of architect Edwin Lutyens) 'taught the Indians' how to build... However, despite the colonial pomposity of the commentary, the record of New Delhi in the '30s is extraordinary - especially the scenes of Connaught Place that appear as a sea of calm and green lawns.
In the video above, you will notice the Old 1930 style of wearing sari's, the "man powered" rickshaw, the British Hawaldar, Indian jawans in the British Police and the old style Morris car driven by an Indian women in a sari. See the old style of carrying water in "Sheepskin".
5 Stars - Beautifully Done!
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