The wonders of modern and family life as the Viceroy's private secretary

Life in the final decades of Empire revealed by amateur filmmaker Sir Conrad Corfield, private secretary to the Viceroys. With an eye for the marvels of modernity, he shows the early landscape of Lutyens' Imperial New Delhi and the rich from the UK and Gulf States, enjoying air and sea-plane travel at His Majesty George V's pleasure. Corfield's shots emphasise English mastery of animals, technology and land.

Amateur film of New Delhi. Street scenes. Fountains. Show jumping and horse artillery on parade. AV from a plane. Interior of plane. Personal film of children on ski-ing slopes and playing in wood. Cricket at Batyana High School.