Wide Wide World Beware - Other Items Share This Title (1946)

Item title reads - Wide wide world. Various locations. Brisbane, Australia. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester attend first Brisbane Exhibition since 1941. M/S as Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester get out of their car, various C/U’s of them. Cattle are led around at the show. Various shots of the funfair. Axemen chop poles of wood in a competition. Various shots of the jumping contest, with horses falling at the hurdles. A Hindu Festival in Bombay, India. L/S as lorries crowded with Indians drive slowly along through packed streets. M/S of pedestrians at the rear carrying umbrellas. C/U as the idol of Ganpati comes along on a lorry. L/S back view of the procession walking down to the sea on crowded Chowpatti beach. C/U of an effigy of Subhas Chandra Bose, pro Japanese Quisling, now dead, on top of a lorry. M/S as idols are prepared for immersion in the sea. Semi-naked native men march down to the sea carrying the idols on their heads. Paris, France. Var
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