Indian ’handymen’ (1942)

Titles read: “INDIAN ’HANDYMEN’“. India. Various shots of soldiers of the Indian army in training. We see the men playing instruments in a military man, exercising on a parade ground, launching small boats on a river and transporting vehicles across on floating bridges. The men are also taught a trade - we see them learning the trades of blacksmiths, sign writers, wheelwrights and iron workers, oxyacetylene welders, brick makers, brick layers, carpenters, typesetters and printing press operators, draughtsmen and surveyors. Soldiers are seen building roads and bridges. M/Ss of Indian soldiers marching about a parade ground. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news ag