INDIAN ENGINEERS AT WORK REPAIRING A RAILWAY BRIDGE

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: FUB 48).

Synopsis

Somewhere in northern Burma, a team of Indian Engineers work to rebuild a railway bridge.

Wide shot, with brick uprights by a river with wooden stacks being built up in between. On one side of the gully being bridged, an Indian Engineer wields a sledgehammer. Two wooden uprights with Indian Engineers at work. Engineers push a wooden frame vertical. It is laid flat. Engineers carrying a long and thick wooden beam. Another wooden beam is carried away. Hammering large metal staples into a wooden frame with close-ups. Stacked wooden piles as bridge uprights with close-up of the metal fixtures. At work with a chisel. Indian Engineers using a double-handed petrol-driven chain saw. Looking down on a wooden frame being hauled into position. Wooden upright is erected. Men haul on a rope. Two well composed wide shots showing progress on the site. A large team of engineers heft a wooden frame onto their shoulders. Setting the frame down.

Notes

No dopesheet for this film, so details are unclear. However, 36th Division insignia are seen which suggests northern Burma.

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Titles

  • INDIAN ENGINEERS AT WORK REPAIRING A RAILWAY BRIDGE (Allocated)
Series Title:
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
 

Technical Data

Year:
1944
Running Time:
6 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
467 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
War Office Directorate of Public Relations
Production company
SEAC Film Unit