Colorful Ceylon

It is not often that your patrons will get a chance to take a trip through a veritable Garden of Eden. On his trip Burton Holmes will show them many strange and unusual sights of the Far East that they never before have

Curious Ceylon

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always entertaining in their methods of daily life. Mr. Holmes will first take your patro

Ceylon

Rajini, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl, narrates the horrific tale of why she had to leave her homeland and become a refugee in India.

Charming Ceylon

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to the island nation when it was still a British crown colony and the name Sri Lanka was 40 years in the future.

Soviet Ceylon

Scarlet Eye

A valuable ruby ​​disappears during an earthquake. Professor Ferlach is tasked with excavating the buried temple. Mysterious things are happening during the excavation and strangers are trying to stop them. The archaeolo

Seeing Ceylon

In this travelogue of Ceylon, the first stop is Colombo, the capital and chief seaport of this island nation. A short train ride from Colombo is Mount Lavinia, one of the country's most popular pleasure resorts. The next

Ceylon Serendipity

Tropical Ceylon

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks

Mango Ceylon

Buddhismus in Ceylon

Directed by Paul Zils and co-written with Regi Siriwardena, Buddhismus in Ceylon is a documentary exploring the practice of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. The film traces the religion’s arrival from India over 2000 years ago, em

Bilder aus Ceylon

The Song of Ceylon

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were analysed and made available for a critique of contemporary TV, its aesthe

A Song of Ceylon

A formally rigorous, visually stunning study of colonialism, gender and the body. The title echoes the classic British documentary and evokes a country erased from the world map. The soundtrack enacts a Sri Lankan anthro

Glimpses of Java and Ceylon

A visit to the island of Java when it was part of the Dutch East Indies, and Sri Lanka when it was still called Ceylon.

Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon

Chandar is a black leopard who lives near the beach of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) together with his mother and his sister.

Views and People in Ceylon

Panorama taken on the railway from Colombo to Kandy - Native barber - Natives washing themselves and bathing their animals in a pond - Native women killing vermin - Fight between a cobra and a mongoose - Natives diving t

Indian and Ceylonsee Types

Short registration of the indigenous population in what was then British India and Ceylon. Life in the Indies. Successively images of children, of the inhabitants of 'Tamoul', of a fortune teller, of 'kandyons', of a gro

Elephants Bathing in Ceylon River

Lomas, a talented photographer specializing in wildlife and hunting subjects, turned his hand to filming for Charles Urban, making several trips to the Far East, including Borneo. Here he is in Ceylon, showing mahouts ba