SHAN VILLAGE
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6209).
Synopsis
Amateur film of scenes in a Burmese village (after an air-raid attack?) reconstructed by Colonel Hodgkinson.
An ox-drawn cart passes two huts, two women stand outside one of them selling earthenware pots. The same cart passes by a second time this time the driver whips the cattle to go faster. Shot of a burnt out, smoldering hut in the village. Outside the pottery stall people run about in panic. Close-up of a dog next to an injured body lying under debris. More shots of villagers rushing about. Villagers trying to put out a burning hut. Shot of a smoldering, burnt down hut.
Notes
Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.
Date: stock dates on Kodachrome is 1944
Technical: original/copy status of film not marked
An off-cut from this film (may) appear in MGH 6210. The earthenware pot stall also appears in MGH 6203
Titles
- SHAN VILLAGE (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)