ASSAM

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6242).

Synopsis

Tribeswoman with baby on her back, hut on top of steep hillside. Villagers (the Puroiks (Sulungs)? in Assam), cockerel, exotic flowers, leaf insect, green snake, cutting trees, building hut, fire, cutting logs, making trap? Crossing log bridge, hunting with bows, stream with frogs collecting in fungi. Village life. Starting fire, cooking and eating, clearing. Pan to smoke in hills.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: refers to stock dates on Kodachrome

Technical: marked "Original"

Offcut from MGH 6250 (Daily Mail Expedition to Assam)

 

Titles

  • ASSAM (Allocated)
Series Title:
COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILM
 

Technical Data

Year:
1947
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
Colour
Sound:
Silent
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
cameraman
Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Lieutenant-Colonel)