India Speaks - Part 3

Year: 1933
Country: India
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: A filmed recollection of Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent in the early 1930s. 1930s, India, criminals known as “crows,” women displaying gold rings and bracelets, hunting party including Richard Halliburton, criminal “crows”, and mahout elephant riders setting off on elephants to hunt lions, elephant caravan, elephants clearing path by breaking down trees and pushing away underbrush, lion and tiger fighting, Tibet, yaks, yak train, yak being held by rope through his nose, falconry, Tibetan man with falcon on his arm demonstrating falcon’s ability by removing his hood and aiming to catch bird, falcon catching bird, yak caravan traveling up mountain amidst blizzard and reaching serene plain, bandits riding galloping horses capturing Halliburton and caravan, village of yurts, Tibetan men drinking from bowls and smoking cigarettes, Buddhist Lama freeing Halliburton from capture, caravan continuing on with pack horses and passing through mountain tunnel into forbidden valley, Himalayas, Tibetan Buddhist monastery on mountainside, lamasary of Rangolom, Bride of Buddha, caravan arriving at summit and supplies being unloaded from pack animals, Tibetan monks, Halliburton spying woman outside tower, festival of conception, Tibetan monks blowing ceremonial horns and dressed up in costumes and grotesque masks, effigy of dead god, pilgrims arriving from many directions in various conveyances laden with presents, ceremony beginning for festival of conception, monk playing gong and cymbal in unison while reading from holy manuscripts, monks turning prayer wheels and clicking prayer beads, wind and water wheels kept in constant motion, monks playing cymbals and drums, monks and pilgrims praying and confession their sins, dancers wearing skeleton costumes and masks, Halliburton watching festivities from afar, Lama arguing with monks and being led to chanting hall, monk banging large gong with mallet, young woman being carried in palanquin to Lama at altar where she is to be offered as sacrifice, mountain suddenly erupting and destroying monastery, caravan traveling along glacier with horses and mules struggling to cross crevices and up mountain, horse slipping and falling down mountain to its death, caravan including Lama and Halliburton riding horseback across snow-covered plain as Lama tells him that woman is safe, Gobi Desert.
Video Added: 01.06.2021