MISCELLANEOUS BURMA
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6189).
Synopsis
Aerial views of a river and surrounding jungle in Burma. View of the river from a hillside. A Burmese man (possibly near Myitkyina, Kachin?) walks towards the camera through a wooded area. Views of the surrounding countryside and hills. Shots of pipes/machinery. Kachin men and women, in traditional Kachin dress, perform a dance (possibly a traditional Kachin Htongka or pot drum dance?) in a circle shaking small pieces of white cloth (possibly at the Manao Festival, near Myitkyina, Kachin). A man (with long sword) and woman in traditional dress with two young children. More men and women wearing traditional Burmese dress (longyis) walk past the camera.
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
Similar scenes on MGH 6174
Titles
- MISCELLANEOUS BURMA (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)