OOTY - TAIPING & MAYMYO
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6155).
Synopsis
Hodgkinson family scenes in Malaysia and Burma.
(B&W) Malayan maid and Ditty (wife of Colonel Hodgkinson) holding little boy's hand (Ooty, son of Colonel Hodgkinson), walking alongside a pool. Ooty playing at the poolside. Ooty sits on a stationary motorbike, puts on goggles. Ooty, in a small pool of water, tries to splash a woman nearby. Ooty plays in the small pool. A dog runs past, the boy gets out, a woman dries him with towel and dresses him. Ooty on a lilo with dogs. He lies on the lilo between two women on the lawn. [Colour] Ooty and a woman playing with a lilo on the lawn. Close-up of Ooty in a pith helmet. He goes into the small pool again. Playing in the pool. Ditty? joins him then gets out again.
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: unknown, film not Kodak brand (If Dufaycolor - date is post September 1934. LJT)
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked.
Titles
- OOTY - TAIPING & MAYMYO (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1934
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- B&W, Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)