20 mins, b&w, silent
Production : Archives du planète
Source : Musée Albert-Kahn, also Bibliothèque nationale de France (Salle P, NUMAV 10038)
The cameraman Roger Dumas was sent to India by Albert Kahn in 1927-28, to film the Golden Jubilee of his friend, the Maharajah of Karputhala, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, though while he was there, Dumas also visited various other places in India, mostly the palaces of other Maharajahs, but also Amritsar and Benares (today Varanasi).
This film was not viewed for The Silent Time Machine project, but it would appear to be an edited version by Georges Thibaud of the footage shot of the jubilee by Dumas. This was released by the Musée Albert-Kahn in 1985.
Thibaud also appears to have edited a version of the material shot by Dumas in Varanasi, described here.
The website of the Musée Albert-Kahn refers here to Indes divines, described as a montage of rushes shot by Dumas in India, but also possibly by Stéphane Passet, another Archives de la planète cameraman who travelled in India for two months in December 1913 and January 1914.
Text : Deprez 2017