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)