Kerala @ 60: rare old videos on God's own country

Some of these videos date back to early 1900s and show the village life of Kerala a century back. A video shot by the British, clearly show the life in 1940s and clearly pictures the slow changes taken place in less than half a century.

This 1944 video shows the village life of Kerala in detail. Kerala, as we know, had not come into being then.  
Watch this and move on to other videos that show the life of a century back in this part of the world which is often referred to as 'tropical paradise.' 

 Coastal village life in Kerala 1959 . Video by Robert Rossellini

Second part of Rossellini's video: