The Unknown World - Tibet, 1930s

 

 

The Unknown World - Tibet, 1930s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTYRJRIE6o

A film about Tibet in the 1930s.

 

 

Lhasa, Tibet, festival in 1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9lbK6Lgew

 

From an old german film showing either the Saka Dawa, or the Shoton festival as held in those prewar times.

 

 

Inside Tibet (1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCHgPCqPf5Q

 

FILM REPORT: On the journey of a U.S. military and diplomatic mission from Gangtok, India, to Lhasa,

 

Tibet during World War II. The party journeys through Natu La and Kechu La passes, stops at the British trail station, Gyantse, reviews troops of Tropji Regiment and is ferried across the Brahmaputra River.

 

Scenes of Tibetan natives, terrain, travel facilities, housing,a New Year religious festival, the Dalai Lama's palaces in Lhasa, monasteries and other religious buildings.

 

- National Archives and Records Administration

- ARC Identifier 40103 / Local Identifier 226.5

- Inside Tibet

- Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Office of Strategic Services.

Field Photographic Branch. (01/04/1943 - 10/01/1945).

 

 

High Adventure Tibet 1949 Lowell Thomas Father and Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVN4M4l7sc

 

 

Journey into Tibet with Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. in 1949.

Rare glimpse in the history of Tibet