Prewar India, land of dreams ?

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Author:

MichaelRogge

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0:09:17

According to an old 1937 German reportage India, was the land of dreams. This exotic film was projected as a home movie for families that could only dream of traveling abroad and unaware of the disaster they were going into.

I wonder whether all scenes come from India. The last part has a strong resemblance of Hawaii ! Indeed, a viewer informed me that the latter part is from the 1931 German film 'Bora Bora' of director F.W. Murnau. Viewers identify the scenes as follows: Starts of with Somanatha pura - hoysala temple, near T Narasipur & after it is a Mysore style temple, next a few seconds of Chalukya Temples from Belur / Halebeedu followed by the statue of Bahubali or Gomateshwara at Shravanabelagola and elephant based lumber jacking, again in South India. Skips to Rajastan in north India till 2:30 and then I guess some parts of North east India. Later completely out of India.

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