BURMA 1

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6215).

Synopsis

High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in costume. People all leave straw huts. Food onto leaves, cooking and cutting food. Man with bamboo stick. Group in costume, market scenes; people eating, woman with baby on back. Cu people wearing headdress, and group with Union Jacks, drums, steamboats. Shots on river. Pan mud flats by river. People waiting for steamboat. Cu boat, bridge, name: SHWELAD. 2 women by funnel. Cu Helsman. How shot, sunset shot, boat passed. Steamboats moored. Sanpans? Slomo Gull flying, ornate guns by steps. Pagoda, Red Trees. Group by pool. Street scene vehicles like Pagodas up and down street, mounted soldiers leading procession, funeral? Line of parasols. Monks. Cu men and womens faces. Bullock cart, in village, pots on stall, large house. Family outside pan to garden, hills background.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome

Technical: film marked "original"

Similar funeral scenes appear on MGH 6188 and MGH 6184.

 

Titles

  • BURMA 1 (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)