G. Mackrell's Home Movies — extracts

c1947

G. Mackrell was a tea planter and big game hunter who lived in India from the mid-1930s to the late-1950s. During WWII, Mackrell was involved in rescuing refugees fleeing Upper Burman before the Japanese advance. His amateur films provide some of the clearest records of the adventurous life that many British entrepreneurs and military personnel forged for themselves in India prior to Independence.

These glorious colour extracts record a fishing trip by canoe down the Barak River in north eastern India, and a geese-shooting expedition, which prove extremely fruitful judging by the array of catch with which the Mackrell party are seen posing.