A Road in India (1938) - Jack Cardiff | BFI
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2009
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A tribute to the great British cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who died in April 2009 aged 94. For more information about Jack's life and work see www.screenonline.org.uk/people...
The sights of India as seen from the perspective of a dusty road. This portrait of 'the enigmatic and disturbing East' is big on exoticism and cliché, but Jack Cardiff's Technicolor cinematography makes for typically compelling viewing. Cardiff later won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the India-set - though filmed in the UK - 'Black Narcissus' (1947).
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Those who are complaining that this documentary is staged, be thankful at least we have a source to look back in the history,
Absolutely true...
A beautiful window to the past!
While some of content seems staged/misappropriated (possible due the the british target audience of that time), the story telling style is beautifully poetic.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful ornament from Indian History.
Born in 1992, I grew up as a child in Uttar Pradesh. Some of my experiences in the 90s and early 2000s are more similar to these times than to the totally transformed India of today. This goes to show how rapidly India has changed over the last two decades, and how resistant it was to change until the liberalization of the Indian economy.Very strange how i can find similarities between my time as a child in 1990s in uttar pradesh village to the viedoes from 1938, just insane.
One similarity they still worship shivlund and Parwati Yoni. Lol
@@mmulbatoora653 go follow your child r*pist muhammed, a tradition dating back to the first degenerate chuslims 🤡
@@mmulbatoora653 And childfu**ker paedophile mohaaamond as well .. 😅 olla o ubar..
@@mmulbatoora653That's better than to be part of the cult of a genocidal cult
@@mmulbatoora653dont you guy's worship roadbreaker for a god???? Halala born opinions don't matter
How beautiful and open road and Innocent people in our Country!!
No #plastics wastes no heavy pollution, no mobile
Very good life
Black Narcissus 1947 is cardiffs color masterpiece.wow this is beautiful color of india.
roselyn rajoo it was filmed in a studio in England. Plus the girl you are talking about was mix race. Have you even seen the film?
the world was so beautiful then !
The technical quality of this footage is unbelievable. It's 70+ years old for crying out loud. The only thing I could possibly knock it for if I wanted to would be that it's a bit contrasty and has a slight magenta cast both of which could be due entirely to the age of the footage. I have to wonder what this footage was like when it was freshly shot.
Legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff was born 100 years ago today. Experience his work in glorious Technicolor: bit.ly/1rfSq3d
I want to go back and breathe in the unpolluted air
Yup but can't survive there .....
If you go back you will die with common diseases because no medical science was not developed... Also you will be so much frustrated with inequality, caste system, poor situation of women and superstition.
@@KT43124 you lose some, you gain some.. not that everyone died of disease back then.
@@KT43124 oh really? Then all of us wouldn't have seen our grandparents...in name of advance medical care pharma companies r looting people.
Me too
For at least 2,500 years, the Grand Trunk Road has linked the Indian subcontinent with Central Asia. It runs from Chittagong, Bangladesh west to Howrah, West Bengal in India, then across Northern India passing from Allahabad (Prayagraj) it goes through Delhi, passing from Amritsar towards Lahore and Peshawar in Pakistan, finally terminating in Kabul, Afghanistan covering 4900 kilometers.
Grand Trunk road is more than 5,000 years old.
Actually this road was spread across to Myanmar also.
চুপ কর জঙ্গি
raja looks like kabadi, 😂😂😂
or
some type of comedy seen of hindi movie
These were the days not much different from those in Kipling 's time. (Kim). I (Dutch) travelled India and Pakistan extensively by road in the 70 's and 80's.. A little more noise, a little more danger , but still as scenic as back then.
Cool...you should visit now sir..india has changed a lot and hasnt changed also😂we havent forgotten our culture and youll still see the scenic beauty but development has happened at very fast rate...
@@capteagle9 development or destruction of culture, ways, manners and environment? Kindly, be honest at least to ur own self!
@@ranjittyagi9354 im being honest..india has improved quite a bit
im in india as i type this and it's still the same
You keep amazing me with the films you find...thanks !!
No, this is an early Technicolour film so was always in colour! It's one of a series of Technicolour shorts made by Jack Cardiff. You should read the blurb about the film. There's another great one on this channel called Delhi.
India, outside the big cities, used to look like this until the late 1960s. India's population in 1938 was 307 million, about a quarter of what it is today. One human walking around for every four today. It was much prettier.
We are now 1.5 billion in 2024, unofficially. One human back then for every five now. Most Disgusting.
TIME is very powerful thanks BFI
RIP Jack Cardiff. Marvelous documentory. 🙏
This hardship of my people....just make me more cry 😢😭
These are rural areas. Nothing changes irrespective of the ruler
Thank you So much
I love my India😁😁
many people are wearing hand watches. Unbelievable.
I am curious. Is it different nowadays?
@@charananekibalijaun8837 This is staged by Britishers to coat good picture of India.
@@kapilpal1561988 hand watches? 😂
@@kapilpal1561988 it's not a documentary pal
Loved watching this video
No bikes, cars. No pollution. No big building.
india was dirt poor then, thanks to british
Still better roads then now
lol.no
Andriod Tips no. We have 6 lanes 10 lanes road etc and on much larger scales
😅
My beautiful country
Amazing
In what a devastated state did they leave our country. with virtually no domestic industry. And what an impossible task was presented to our early leaders who kept the country from falling apart from within.
Look at how many elephants are just lined up and how the narrator says that there are too many tigers lurking 😥
India was a beautiful landscape once. Gone for ever in the name of the glorious "development".
I liked this video so much.. I like old things.
Amazing to see in colour
was that barber using a machine while cutting the other mans hair....crazy at 8:32
yeah even i saw .. astpunding
Vivek Dombe .....its a manual one....but yeah it is machine u can say without battery or electricity 😊
It all look so staged to showcase it in front of the european masters, especially the so called yogis sitting beside the road and meditating, and also the Raja and the Rani and ofcourse the dancing girl..
You are absolutely right. They are surely not going to any cool hill station as the commentary says. Much of it must have been staged. Nonetheless it is amazing to see the people and land from 80 years ago.
Rajas used to travel a lot back then
This is a movie bhai not a docukentry.
So whar
Colour in 1938 when colour was in its infancy
Y'all have problems with TikTok.
These guys staged a whole documentary back then.
Hope this narrator is still alive to see a Indian British PM.
We are still the same people , sociologically we are the same - technologically we are updated.
Kindly confirm which location of india and also the year of shoot
pure
Good video
The way the narrator speaks, seems more like a poem than a narration 😂😂
Old is gold
Old British accent 😂😂
sounds of dynamics never got beyond wheels. WOW
Good thing that British dont think about India in same way now.
Which state is shown in this video?
What a poor Raja and Rani... Thanks to those british, who shot this film and enabling Indians watching it, after 85 years
Yes we gain a lot in last 70 years
This is called time travel, 1938 omg ..nothing have been left now , but still they are immortal by this video.
since, it was 85 years ago, some people who are still living over 100 years old maybe in that footage i guess
india was less populated then
Hmmm... Thank you very much dear, to correct me.
Can nature be peaceful again in the same form
Colours in 1938! Had no idea.
It’s not raw video, it has edited lot
I wonder if anyone from this video is still alive
the dog most certainly isn't
manmohan singh was born in 1932 also there are lots of people alive from that era though can't about people in this video
I think the yogi in saffron who's hand was in air as tapasya. I have seen a old yogi who's hand has taken that form of being in air. Due to so many years of penance his hand had become stiff in air. I think he is the same yogi.
Trees
Which state of India is this?
Nyc sheep.
very rare and unique documentry of my land ,which place in india could you please mention??
must be rajashthan
Modernization is stripping away ancient traditions in India more than the British ever did.
Which of the traditions portrayed in the video do you wish to retain? Bullock carts? Chained elephants? Palanquins borne by men? Petty rulers accompanied by simpering dancing girls? Snake charming? Women walking miles carrying pails of water? It's a good riddance that most of these (except, sadly, the last one) are either gone or are very near to becoming extinct. I'm all for preserving traditions but this particular video doesn't show much that I'm particularly inclined to preserve (except for the clothes that the people are wearing. I'd very much like Indian clothes to survive the onslaught of westernisation).
Shivam Patnaik that traditional wedding, why not?
@@saigonpunkid
Hindu weddings are still traditional in India although embellished with many modern additions. The core remains the same as it was several thousand years ago (Vedic hymns are chanted whilst the priest, the bride and groom and their fathers sit next to a fire altar). But I didn't see any wedding in the video. Where is it?
@@shivampatnaik2000 well we should have kurta pajama as uniform for schools and offices
@@harshthakur1
Kurta and pyjama are not the traditional male garments in "my region" though. Dhoti and a blanket draped like a shawl are. There were some stitched garments too that are extinct now and I'm not entirely informed as to what they looked like.
No traffic jams and plastic!
yes man
Subtitles are quite irritating blocking the screen...
I am indian muslim. hear for look how my people live old days transport
Lol that time your women didn't even leave holes for eyes and hands in burkha 😂 4:59
Who knows if the boy at 4:34 is still alive ?
Well governed by the British
the fact that some women in certain parts of india still have to carry water for miles is an outrage- shambolic
It only needed Kipling. "There's a regiment a-comin' down the Grand Trunk Road."
I wonder if this was filmed anywhere near Peshawar ?
Rajasthan
unfortunately, around 50% of our Indian population is still living the same as they used to live in 1938. 😥😥😥😥
Well, learn some maths and spare time to develop your rudimentary brain to be competent... ..dawg
All people in this video are in grave . 😭
India used to be so scarcely populated.
Everything looks static and peaceful.
On the other hand people look deprived and engulfed in poverty and the soul reason was the rulers who did this. The Britishers were having the feast of their lives London was thriving like never before and all of this on the cost of Perpetual adversity of the people of India.
Anyways; many thanks to *BFI* it wouldn't be possible for us to look in those times and experience it first hand if it weren't for you.
Raunak Dubey India is now a bigger sh!t hole than it ever was.
infal0890 and who are you Monsieur?
Peaceful and pollution free India.
That’s totally true
@VineetaSastry Exactly! And not to mention the fact that those men were wearing turbans, which Muslim men seldom do!
Wearing Turban has been the traditions in Muslims Specially in Punjab, Haryana, Mewat, Rajasthan and some parts of UP also.
Great to See 1938 Road in India..marvelous documentary
Bharat Mata Ki Jai🙏🏻🌹❤
Beautiful Film
Matka Peer
fantastic,, i think this footage been colored now,, the original should be b/w..lol can u post the original one plz..yasser from u.k
Now not to speak only golden deer.
जय श्री राम
"enigmatic and disturbing east" wtf
no shoes at all ,
colorised?
1:18 that's ' Matka peer" . Just google matka peer in delhi" on google. It's a shrine in Delhi
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you mean you were inpurgatory diana rigg,but then not spooning you every night is torture no rich morman can heal.
I wonder back then our population was OK. How come so much people nowadays. just some decades that's all.
"during hard fast of Ramadan no true Mohammaden of India may eat meat" ... Did I hear correct??
@ather zaidi did I wat I listen is mentioned??
Raja rani kha se pakad laaye the 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel so sad to see all those rickety malnourished animals lugging such heavy load and after all these years is still the same 😢
This is from 1970s.
1938 colour video,🙄 how it possible
The footage was recoloured later on
As 1938 postdates 1916, the year Technicolor cameras went on the market
@@user-ji3il6ce2o i thought the same but no. they didn't recorlosed it. According to colonial archive, they used Technicolor camera
True colour it is !
This must be Sindh as lots of Muslims can be seen
An uncontrollable mess now
Cesspool...
India was looking like today's one of the African village...
@4:08 rajas entourage is a jokingly staged procession😂,far far away from real luxury and riches of Indian kings
bro, that's a local raja. During british india, local raja didn't had much wealth unlike maharajas
Irony at 6:46..
Lol this was a drama film with paid actors marketed as a real life documentary.
Still cant believe we (indians) were shaged so bad by britian. Im born and raised in britian and do love my country (scotland) but i am saddened by these videos because we were forced out of our traditions and corrupted. Are herritage, wealth was stolen then we were left to pick up the peices, very sad.
this looks like a stereotyped and small view of india, like someone who went to one village and staged some quite insignificant scenes and then pretends he has seen india. Quite britannic.
Fools people so any one can rule them 😂😂😂
So much of negativity by wrongly showing Indian cultures and traditions, most of it appears to be staged, not at all a documentary but propaganda
@8:35 very racist
Thanks to Western inventions. We have moved far ahead of this era in just 90 years.
Thanks to ancient indian maths and science
Apne dimag ka ilaz kra angrez
Video is staged