The Lost World of Tibet - extract (c.1970)

This film is showing as part of 'The Search for Shangri-La: Tibet on Film 1922-1950', a touring programme of films from the BFI National Archive screening around the UK. Visit http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/mediatheque_thesearchforshangrila.htm for more information.

Major George Sherriff, explorer and legendary plant collector, ran the British Mission in Lhasa from 1943 to 1945 with his wife, Betty. Years later, having returned to Scotland, Betty Sherriff recalls her time in Tibet.

These surviving images from George Sherriff's amateur films, brought to life by Betty's narration, are a recent addition to the BFI National Archive's unrivalled record of Tibet prior to 1950.

You can watch over 1500 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the BFI Mediatheque. There are Mediatheques at BFI Southbank, London, QUAD, Derby and the new Central Library, Cambridge: http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/bfi-mediatheque http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/online/bfi_media.htm

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[dementedgravedigger]

What a great privilege to look back at this beautiful country and amazing people. Truly Shangri-La

[hackneysaregreat]

truly amazing footage and comments...

thanks for uploading from Holland

[MorroccoSurrogate]

I love this narrator. She sounds like some kind of parody on Monty Python.

[MissingVoices77]

This is really beautifull

[mandscat]

thanks for sharing :-)

[Mangina9000]

If you're Chinese you've been brainwashed to hate Tibetans and think they are inferior. Imperialist bastards.

[CaptBart]

Very cool!

[aiammaiaaiam]

Although it's quite long and slow, it's actually more gripping than fast but brief film clips. Even though the picture's really blurry (HQ crashes my internet) you can clearly see the beauty of it: the camera slowly looks at everything,&it's amazing 2c Potala, Tibet as they were then, not as we know them now(I've never been, but photos)It's so interesting to see it through a completely different lens

.I wdn't fancy being 'trussed up like a chicken and hauled across the river on a rope' though!