TRIMS N/R
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6210).
Synopsis
Offcuts from amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma. Most of the scenes are reconstructions (with the exception of the market scene).
"The Enemy" written in English and Burmese script. Indian radio operator and signallers in the bush, also a British? soldier with binoculars. Indian soldiers firing a field gun. A Burmese woman picks up her child and runs off (acted out twice). Scenes at a Burmese market, some Burmese men in military uniform. Three Indian soldiers loading a gun. Close-up of a circular magazine, and being fitted onto a Lewis gun. Close-up of a Burmese girl.
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.
N/R= News reel?
Similar scenes appear in MGH 6201 and MGH 6209
Titles
- TRIMS N/R (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)
