RESERVISTS - DITTY ON RIVER - LADIES POLO - HOT SPRINGS
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6161).
Synopsis
A British man, two Burmese women and children standing outside building. A British man holding a small child. Shots of the women and children, a dog walks out of the building. A group of Indian and Anglo-Indian? people bathing in a river. A woman leans over the side of a moving boat and holds a bottle of Ross's Ginger Ale in the water. Ditty Hodgkinson (Colonel Hodgkinson's wife) reading and lying on deck next to another woman. Ditty and another woman eating on deck, a servant working behind them. Burma Rifles reservists arrive at a base carrying large kit bags. They unpack their kit. A polo match (possibly 'Mandalay' on the scoreboard?).
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1939
Technical: film marked "original"
Titles
- RESERVISTS - DITTY ON RIVER - LADIES POLO - HOT SPRINGS (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1945
- Running Time:
- 2 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)