My mom was born in 1925, she is still strong in her age. The film was made in 1937 or 82 years ago, so I think some of the children in the footage may still be alive. Love from Thailand.

Brings tears. It's a meeting of two oceans vastly different East and west. Yet the human condition persists. This is what I love about India. There is a timelessness in whatever we do which connects us to the beggining of time. It continues till today.

My favourite city in India, since 1996 - Bombay!!

I'm shocked this footage.. I'm 98 yrs it''took my Great grand children to explain these nostalgic memories... At Causeway... Mumbai... God bless the Times....

Thanks to the one who captured this vedio that that we can witness India in the history.....great narration too....bye fo now

I have been blessed to live with my parents and children and soon grand children for four generations in my beloved and adored city of Mumbai! Bombay Meri JaaN!

7:01 he mentioned 350 million as overpopulated. We are now 1.3 BILLION.

anyhow ... thanks for preserving our old indian images . now we are so much devoloped in last 70 years.

Thank you so much

Loved the vintage Mumbai. Love to see more. Great job

Great India my India

i have just returned from a family holiday from India, the Taj Mahal was spectacular ,

Outstanding ,fabulous video,i love it it's memorable days of old time...

The narrative is absolute "Ass-holistic imperial or British imperial Bull Sheet" , but the photographic / cinematographic content is an immense piece of historic information.

Then princes and maharajas ... And now our corrupt politicians ... Will poverty ever end?

luv youtube for videos like this keep them coming pls!

R.I.P to all these people and to the blind old man just trying to get by in life.

so much diversity..., that's 1 piece of amazing land called INDIA...!!!

Shocked to see some Ill informed comments below. And absolutely amused to see a comment stating progress was changing from dhothi to pants LOL. All the poverty being shown was the result of 150 years of British rule. The region of India produced more than 20% of world GDP around 1700s around the time the European looters landed

Nice footage! Liked!!

Amazing video of Mumbai

Happy to see a video of old mumbai, but watched in silent mode

Even after 82 years still we are same, Cows on the roads, no garbage control,over population

I was in Benares in 1972. I recall seeing the river dolphind playing with unburnt back bones.

Wonderful... Thank you.

I think this same guy also narrated all the WW2 propaganda films. Interesting when he said, "In this war-torn world, there are few happy places like this left.". This was filmed in 1937, before the outbreak of WW2. He then goes on to say how 300 years ago, the Dutch 'owned' Ceylon. Really? How the Hell can someone step into a long occupied nation and simply claim it as their own, yet call these 'happy people' the uncivilized ones?

Nice video I love to see these kind of video

It's fascinating how little has changed even after 82 years!

This surely is not bombay ...the footage seems to have come from all over india

Tough going ...Everyone is so lean and fit !!

Very nice documentation

Why is this person who is speaking calling people illiterate and mentioning poverty did they forget they have looted India. The way they have presented video shows their mentality.

I desperately need a Time Machine right now

RIP everyone

Awesome.

Skills developed over thousands of years, prosperous, arguably the most sophisticated structures on the planet. Now skills are diluted, people divided and riches looted! God save the queen; she must have studied Kharma over the years!

It is rare film those man are very clever and we are very thankful for this 100 year old pictures and we are gladful for this information

This was a fantastic period film. So glad I got to see it

All these videos are a time capsule we are allowed to look back in to the past

Of all my countries I have travelled to as I hitch hiked around the world is INDIA.

So beautiful adventure

Old is gold

I tried like hell to teach my wife that goat balancing on a stick trick but she kept falling off.

Narrative might be harsh but to see the lifestyle of 30s India is emotional.

Amazing documentary, part of India in 1930

thanks for giving alot of valuable information about the british invasion and recordings and clips in the mean time

I see a lot of comments running down the British, under this video. Some people have been bragging about how rich and prosperous India used to be before the British arrived and drained of its wealth. A few questions for these ranters: 1 Did any of us Indians of that time ever make such informative films or documentaries. Yes we produced films on mythology and romance and so on. But what about travel films, news documentaries, cultural and educational productions - anything to match this video we have just seen. Has an Indian prior to the 1940s produced the like? 2 Have we any histories other than epics and panegyrics and the like dating from the earliest times? Do we have any objective records and chronicles relating the events and happenings of bygone kings and bygone eras in Indian history other than records of achievements inscribed on monuments and temples and the like? In fact the first people who took our history seriously were the British themselves and pioneering historians like James Grant Duff, Henry Beveridge, James Tod to name a few authored books on different aspects of our history many of which continue to be authoritative reference guides today. 3 Yes - India used to be rich and prosperous but how much of this wealth was shared by the common man? Most of it was concentrated in the hands of kings and rulers. The life of the peasant was always wretched and poverty stricken during the Middle ages (insufficient data available before that time) prior to the arrival of the British; it improved slightly after the British arrived because they systematized revenue collections in the lands they ruled directly. Let's face it. The British conquered us because we deserved to be conquered - in fact we invited conquest with open arms not just by the British but by a succession of races before them - the Turks, the Pathans, the Mongols and so on. Mahmud of Ghazni looted so much treasure from the temples of India that the total value has never been computed but would probably rival what the British sucked out over 2 centuries. After Mahmud came Taimur Lang and Nadir Shah but wheras these invaders only stole the British took but gave something back - they left a strong administration, a healthy infrastructure, law and order, suppressed customs like Sati and Thuggee and so on and above all they left behind a conception of India as a political unity which was never there before. So please don't rant and rave against the British without taking consideration of their achievements and legacies.

The proper title of this film is "Wheels Across India." It was made in 1937. This is a reissue version, probably made for television.

Very beautiful representation of India in the 30s. Dances are so perfect.

Luckily they lived without pollution , mobile, computer,net , media,..... With good heart people lucky to live on that era

cool historical documentary.

How man is changed in 80 years.and lost the volume.of life.

I love the historical background of a country mean like 18 century before I get many knowledge things from them.

Lovely

இந்தியர்களின் கைவண்ணம் கலைஅழகு வேறு எந்த நாட்டுகளிலும் இல்லை

It is what it is... We neither have to appreciate nor blame the English.. Let us relish and appreciate our identity through this video. We’ve been called Losers, poor, illiterate and many more, but we should realise that this is how we have been brainwashed to self-shame our own past.. Looking at my fore runners, I only see that whether poor or rich, ignorant or smart, they all are happy. Remember, happy faces come from self content, self content comes from self-respect, self respect comes from self-appreciation. It’s unfortunate that we don’t acknowledge their self-appreciation, but rather pay attention to what the English narrator had to say about our nation/home. Let us look back to relive our past in free India. Life is not for the rich nor you need to be rich to live the life of our elder generations 👍🏼 வாழ்க பாரதம் (Jai Hind)!

I love my Indian

wonder full India

Sweet memories

I love my India 🇮🇳🙏

Wow nice bird trick

Our heritage recorded by westerns... I am very thankful for old rare Hindustan....

I love al these old travel films. The narrator uses words like fanatical, idle, villanous looking, extremely dirty but back then it was all right to be so frank. It was the age of innocence.

India 🇮🇳 is history

I love my country, India. It's not perfect but I would rather be born here than any other place on earth.

I remember watching this when I was 10 years

Sad to see how little has changed in these years!!

Butiful information

An interesting documentary. Although, yes, it is littered with racist tropes and stereotypes. But then, those days were different.

salute to the creator of this documentary

condescending commentary, stunning visuals and a dodge product placement

Very Different life & culture. This is our own history.our grandmother grandfather suffering this life.🙏.

BEAUTIFUL VIDEOS VILLEGE OLD KACCHA GAAR HOME BOMBAY

Koi 2020 me b dekh rha hai kya?😜

Man...the south is so similar to the Aztec and the Mayan civilization. Well, we are still standing strong and only getting stronger, we are the toughest civilization around.

Fantastic rare video. Too bad India lost all animal trainers and bird tricks forever

Anyone in carona time?

The indian dark skin are indigenous and smart i love tamil nadu look their skills of magic

Love you india

@7:24 the next time ur grandparents say " this is how we used get water fron well" believe their struggle

how long has India been around? 5? 6 Thousand Years? how long have Dodge trucks been around? 100 years? let's see who's around in another 5 or 6 thousand years, I"m guessing trucks won't.

Narrator keeps saying "Grotesque" with everything..Always playing the great "Saviour white"..

Oh ! Those Good Times.

The video show about Sri Lanka at the end.

East Mumbai consists the localities of Bhandup, Ghatkopar, Kanjurmarg, Kurla, Mulund, Nahur, Powai, Vidyavihar and Vikhroli.

I love mumbai

One country, many worlds... INDIA- the land of diversity

Cow mob lynching was a indian tradition even those times

I love my India 🇮🇳 ♥

Love the monastery. Is it in Bhutan?

I don't understand the narrator is praising or insulting india by the comments..

Might river rafting born from hear they are extremely skillful, chage the title to India in 1939 this video get millions of views. coz most of the modren wild donno the name Bombay

India is a great country

Today we can see the God has given special blessings on Great India' Only the one thing we all citizens shall do.....we shall increase the aducation in urban states and villages and ampowered all of them with this unique weapon....and only youth can do this .....so guys pls wakeup and do something for our great mother India.... instead of Smoking, and Drinking,....thanks

armand denis an old Kenya Hand wow nice

Wow incredible india

this film reels show of ancient ways of life in Indian subcontinent.Wonderful and not seen anywhere in the world. Britain had also ancient ways of life under brutal rulers in England and Ireland.

Did these guys go to Spiti or Ladakh?

20:35 Juggernaut! The Grand-father of the Love-parades!!

Wow...Ladakh was shown in it almost a century back....