Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.

Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed by Buddhist monks. A tricolour of orange, green and red horizontal stripes with a black hammer and sickle on a white circle in the centre hanging from a building. Scenes of people on the riverbank (Irrawaddy River), some with large sacks. A man jumps from the boat with the ship's rope. On the riverbank people pull the rope in and secure it. People carry goods to and from the ship. A stall selling earthenware pots in a village. A young woman sits with a dog and small boy. A bus passes along a hillside road. Boats in a harbour pass a building marked 'Steel Brothers & Co Ltd Incorporated England'. A barge containing large sacks is rowed across the harbour (Rangoon). A shot of sacks lined up on the riverbank. Close-up of sacks being filled with peanuts. A boat sails down the river loaded with sacks.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1944

Technical: film marked "copy"

Note on film can label: Frame Line Out

Many scenes appear on MGH 6184. The earthenware pot stall also appears in MGH 6209.