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)