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)