BURMA WEIGHT LIFTING
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6196).
Synopsis
Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while the other three walk away. Each man takes it in turn to lift the weights. The Shwedagon pagoda is just visible in the background.
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1944
Technical: film marked "original"
Small part of weightlifting scene also in MGH 6163
Titles
- BURMA WEIGHT LIFTING (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1945
- Running Time:
- 1 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)