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The [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/audio.html Oral History Collection]. The interviews are available to listen to, or a transcript may be read. Read this Times On Line [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6947170.ece article] dated 7 December 2009 about the collection of oral histories and home videos There are also collections of [http:archive//www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/overviewarchome.html papers and memoirs], part of page detailing the South Asian Archives The Centre holds a sizable archive of films - approximately 50 individual archives collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage. Most of the material held is 16mm or 8mm home movies, taken between 1911 and 1956, which give a unique perspective of life in South Asia towards the end of the British Empire and in the first years of independence. Read more about the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/films.html Film Archive] which may be viewed online.  [http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010110101 The Elephant Man] is about the rescue of refugees fleeing Burma in 1942 by Gyles Mackrell, an Assam tea planter. He mounted an operation has links to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube both audio and film clipcollections.