BURMA MISCELLANEOUS

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6197).

Synopsis

Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.

Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at one end, on a river. Brief shot of an oil well. Burmese people on the riverbank with large square baskets. Three men take a ship's rope ashore. A barge loaded with sacks. Sacks being sewn closed. Brief shot of people on the riverbank. An Anglo-Burmese family? outside their house. Views of the surrounding countryside. A British man and his Burmese wife? look out over the landscape. A car approaches along the mountain road, a truck passes it on the way down.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1944

Technical: film marked "copy"

Many scenes also appear in MGH 6184.

 

Titles

  • BURMA MISCELLANEOUS (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)