BURMA - B.N.A. - PANJIS
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6187).
Synopsis
Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.
Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large sword. Another shot of the soldiers, one wearing a blue shirt, all wearing Japanese-style military caps. Close-up of a bundle of bamboo sticks being tied together (probably used to mark the position of the panji trap/mine referred to in the title?).
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1943
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked
Titles
- BURMA - B.N.A. - PANJIS (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1945
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)