Now To Resume Our Trip Round The World In The Empress Of Britain (1933)

Ceylon, Sri Lanka. Working elephants are featured. Narrator tells us that they do heavy work with amazing intelligence and They are assisting the locals to build a road. The elephants are being forced to move large blocks of rock. The rocks have chains wrapped around them and the elephants lift them by mouth. Now seems rather cruel. Trainers sit on their backs holding large sticks presumably to persuade the elephants to work. Various shots of the elephants moving the blocks for the road builders. Note: title suggests that The Empress of Britain was the ship on which this trip was undertaken we don t see the ship. FILM 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 new