Charming Ceylon 1931

My Aunt Millie!! …
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…

Rubbish - you never …
Rubbish - you never had it so good when the British ruled Ceylon. Look at the mess it's in now !!!

Anyone who looks at …
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!

Indeed, primitive …
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.

what happened to …
what happened to the glorious days of Ceylon… Look at what become of us?

WTH!!! they deleted …
WTH!!! they deleted my comment!!! :@ cant handle it huh??

Wow was that a …
Wow was that a blast from the past. very good.
I was born in Ceylon in 1965 and watched that clip with my son who was born in Australia.

primitive ways of …
primitive ways of colonising free people!! not right is it?

That dance is total …
That dance is total set up for this documentry,which never exist in SL.

well the narrator …
well the narrator must have his family experience of primitve ways as british bloomed very late in real history

The later video …
The later video from 1932 is better. This one is very wrong.

The word primitive …
The word primitive was bit over used here, most likely to get the viewers to visit Ceylon back in the day as an adventure.
And the dance they showed is not traditional at all.. seems like they paid a couple of local guys to dress up in leaves and jump up and down for marketing purposes.
Other than that, great video!

Really charming and …
Really charming and a journey back to our recent history

This English …
This English narrator is dumber than a stone, why the does he keep on saying primitive, bloody Moron

Kind of annoying to …
Kind of annoying to hear the man keep saying primitive. Lanka is far from primitive

Good to see what it …
Good to see what it was like almost 60 years before I was born :). Quite a civilised nation ha?

sick video!!!!!!!1
sick video!!!!!!!1

Thank u very very …
Thank u very very much. I love this.

I was there two …
I was there two years back, v ery lushious land and vegetation. Along the shoreline you're bound to find alot of fruit washed up & huge shells all kinds of weird & wonderful people

Cool!!!
Cool!!!

Truly amazing!
Truly amazing!

It is really very …
It is really very nice! Thank you very much for this film!

This is a wonderful …
This is a wonderful film. I am totally inspired. Many Thanks !!!!