8 minutes of 1944 Technicolor that'll make your passport weep with inadequacy.
Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.
Cinematography
Rare early color footage of Taj Mahal gleaming like a fever dream.
Production
Amateur filmmaking by British expats with surprisingly steady hands.
Director
E.T.H. Alexander
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures the British Raj's final years: tourists treating empire as personal playground while WWII raged elsewhere.
E.T.H. Alexander was likely a military officer or colonial administrator—amateur filmmaking was elite hobbyism, not art.
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