RESERVISTS - DITTY ON RIVER - LADIES POLO - HOT SPRINGS

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: MGH 6161).

Synopsis

A British man, two Burmese women and children standing outside building. A British man holding a small child. Shots of the women and children, a dog walks out of the building. A group of Indian and Anglo-Indian? people bathing in a river. A woman leans over the side of a moving boat and holds a bottle of Ross's Ginger Ale in the water. Ditty Hodgkinson (Colonel Hodgkinson's wife) reading and lying on deck next to another woman. Ditty and another woman eating on deck, a servant working behind them. Burma Rifles reservists arrive at a base carrying large kit bags. They unpack their kit. A polo match (possibly 'Mandalay' on the scoreboard?).

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1939

Technical: film marked "original"

 

Titles

  • RESERVISTS - DITTY ON RIVER - LADIES POLO - HOT SPRINGS (Allocated)
Series Title:
COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
2 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
Colour
Sound:
Silent
 

Production Credits

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