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Charming Ceylon 1931

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A tour of the island of Ceylon in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: travelfilmarchive

Length: 07:44
Rating: 4.62
Views: 22492

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sujeevgomi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
which the British started..
Looserdew (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
AMAZING!
renukala (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
we were perfectly happy before this whole colonization crap ! and still to date its not our people but other countries who wants to makemoney out of this stupid war that is tearing my country apart
GeorgeTheBushPig (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
If you watch this with the sound off it's absolutely fantastic! But I can't help thinking that just 17 years later independence was gained from the British slave master (and who are you calling primitive?) and 11 years later the first anti-Tamil pogrom. If British divide and rule policies were able to dismantle societal relations I guess social fabric must be a tenuous thing. But what is our excuse 78 years later?
gusgemba (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
suddata puka deepan do!!!!!!
operationcwaI789789 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
My Aunt Millie!! What in our Majesty's glorious crown is going on here? Hmmm, quite primitive, it seems. My God Watson, where is my eye glass? Where on this flat Earth are my tea and biscuits? Hmmm quite.... Yes... Hmmmm.... Oh well, pip pip, cheerio. Tataaa. Hmmm... Yes.... primitive hmmm...
chrispprecious (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Rubbish - you never had it so good when the British ruled Ceylon. Look at the mess it's in now !!!
mmvocin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Anyone who looks at this and says "what happened to the glorious days" is a self-hating idiot, with some serious internalized racism. Hmmm, is it possible that some of Sri Lanka's current issues have something to do with... ehem... colonialism? i can't stand it when my grandma says, "oh how nice things were under the British".Liberation for all peoples!
nmu527 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Indeed, primitive seems to have been the word of the day. I can only imagine what the reaction would have been from the prim, proper, "civilized" British who watched this film:"it's such a charming, quaint little country with such primitive but sweet and subservient natives". The superiority complex of the British is nothing but PALPABLE and DISGUSTING.
Thambapanniya (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what happened to the glorious days of Ceylon... Look at what become of us?

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