INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 103 (2/3/1945)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: INR 103).

Synopsis

I. "100 INDIAN NEWSPAPERS REPRESENTED AT EDITORS CONFERENCE" One hundred Indian newspapers are represented by war correspondents and journalists at the Newspaper Editor's Conference in Calcutta. In attendance are military leader Sir Richard O'Connor, editor Sir Francis Low. Commentary states that the newspapers represent "one hundred windows on the world that Conference President S A Brelvi and his colleagues are determined to keep clean and clear".

II. "VICEREGAL SOLICITUDE FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS" Women join Viceroy and Lady Wavell in visiting wounded soldiers.

III. "RETAKING BURMA" Air Marshal Coryton, Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon and General Stratemeyer watch 'massive' air operation take off and attack "Jap concentrations that they thought safe in the rear". The Navy commences strike from the sea by hoisting the Burma ensign as landing craft advance on Cheduba Island to find the Japanese have fled. Scenes of Officers checking on possible Japanese positions, supplies coming ashore and troops moving into the interior. Scenes of dead villagers and Japanese-torture victims. An Allied representative talks to the villagers; as the commentary notes, "they hear that the rule of law has come back instead of the rule of torture".

IV. "ROYAL INDIAN NAVY'S MAGNIFICENT WORK IN EVACUATING THE WOUNDED". Scenes of the road and beachhead at Kangaw where Allied casualties are evacuated through the Royal Indian Navy amidst close proximity of Japanese.

Notes

Summary: film not viewed; synopses based on commentary sheets.

 

Titles

  • INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 103 (2/3/1945)
Series Title:
INDIAN NEWS PARADE
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
8 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
726 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB, India
Sponsor
Department of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
editor
Moylan, William J (FRGS, FRSA)
producer
Moylan, William J (FRGS, FRSA)