Amateur Footage of Bazaars in Bombay, 1920s - Archive Film 1065443

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1065443 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Amateur home movie of Bombay (Mumbai) bazaars: Kackaria Musjid, Chuckla, Pydoni and others. Late 1920's Street scenes in Bombay, later Mumbai, India, 1929 people carrying bundles on their heads, smartly dressed people. Mostly men, wearing suits or long flowing vests, some carry large baskets on their heads. Horse drawn taxis? Ekka. Drive through the market, the men were fezzes. The market is one crooked street, awnings cover the sides of the road, A woman in a sari walks through the crowds balancing a jar on her head. Minarets, closer shot of people walking back and forth on the street. Black umbrellas used as sunshades by locals, a large building with minarets and towers. People in Fezzes, Arabs. Pigeons in the middle of the street. Customers walk through the market looking at produce. An automobile drives through the bazaar, behind a woman carrying a baby on her hip. A water carrier with very skinny legs, walks on the pavement with a yoke over his shoulders. Locals with black umbrellas walk beside the open shops on the pavement. The five or six story houses line the crooked street, lots of people on the move Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced