Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech at the midnight of August 14, 1947 to India's Constituent Assembly (precursor to Parliament).
A silent black & white film sequence of the Taj Mahal, taken by Theodore Richard, an educator and religious administrator who filmed his travels around the world in 1924-25. The film clip is from the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution collection of historical moving images.