Towill Collection

Intertitles. Village life in India, location unidentified. Shoeing an ox; preparing toddy; pottery. Various scenes in Burma, inc. Mandalay Bazaar. Scenes in Benares; ghats. Puri indicated on intertitle, but film ends.

... of the Prince of Wales' tour of India and Burma, 1921-22. Covering Bombay, Poona, Bharatpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Benares, Rangoon, Mandalay, Nepal, Madras, Patiala and the Khyber Pass. Also featuring a tiger hunt, pig-sticking, horse racing, polo and ...

... ). The Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon (707-724); Burmese dancers (728-759). Officers of the Burmese army are presented to the Prince at Mandalay, January 5-7th, 1922 (768-777); boat races on the Moat at Fort Dufferin (784-800); a procession of effigies (812- ...

... given a representative building in which to advertise their culture and their wares: for example, the Burmese pavilion was based on a temple in Mandalay; the Ceylonese pavilion was modelled on the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy; and Hong Kong by a street of ...

... Road. Elephants piling teak - Rangoon.

Rangoon. Maymyo. Mandalay. February 1928

Ship coming into dock at ... at Rangoon. Burmese ponies. Saddling up. Rangoon - up to hills byroad to Mandalay to Maymyo. Ox cart. Llamas smoking cigars. Children and ...

Rangoon, Mandalay, Penang Funeral', 1930s

... gyration of the leg at the hip. Pagodas and stupas at Yawnghwe (shotlist ‘Yuangshweh’). Roadside scenes outside Mandalay; study of two young Burmese girls. Elephant pushing cut timbers with trunk and feet (shot list: ‘a valuable record ...

A record of an expedition from Burma to China. The film includes landscape shots, scenes of agriculture, market and street scenes in Teng Yuch, Chung King, Yenan, and the Kumbun lamasery.

Rl. 1. Animated map of journey. Village life in Burma. ...

... logs (255). Various views of the Queen's Convent (Nandaw?) in Mandalay including MS carvings in teak (335). In the Great Royal Park ... of pagoda and statues of Buddha in the Royal Park (535). Mandalay market scenes - stalls, porters, ox carts, people (646). ...

... cattle pull goods unloaded from a boat. Children washing clothes in the river. Pagan. The Gawdawpalin Temple and various pagodas. Mandalay. The Royal Palace. Amarapura. Cattle pull carts laden with hay. People spin and weave silk. Teak trunks are made into ...

... at Lucknow; riverside view of Benares (?). BURMA: Buddhist temple; Mandalay Fort; cannon and cannon balls; interior of temple; Burmese in distinctive longwi dress in courtyard of palace (Mandalay ?); construction of pipeline beside railway line in hills; ...

... Irrawaddy Flotilla company pass. Buddhist priest with distinctive sunshade. "Mandalay. Irrawaddy Bridge": tracking shot from train approaching girder ... pass by in rickshaw; others use horse drawn cabs. "Mandalay-Rangoon Night Mail": (14 May 1940) train at ...

... harvesting by hand, treading out the grain, winnowing on tripod, followed by dry ploughing and dry harrowing. Various scenes of Mandalay and Fort Dufferin include the Eastern Audience Hall.

Reel 5: (Swiming and canal picnic)

Reel 6: ("Our dumb ...

... down spire of Shwe Dagon Pagoda in centre of Rangoon and shows temple lion statues and feeding of pigeons. Views of former capital Mandalay show the moat surrounding the Fort and a temple.

III. Spring thaw hampers German armour on Central Sector of ...

... who wave Japanese flags.

III. "Attack and capture of Mandalay." Map of Burma. Japanese soldiers, who since March have ... of Gustav Holst's Planets on the track. Signpost to Mandalay indicates distance of 82 miles. Demolition of bridge by retreating ...

... down and back over target areas. Nose view of cannon attack on motor vehicle. Cannon attack against train on Lashio-Mandalay railway. Internal shot looking down over target. Burning railway wagons clearly visible with dense smoke.

Notes

One ...

... Rout Turns Into Massacre' and 'British Fight 60 Miles From Mandalay') and the Daily Mail. An editor selects a photo and ... evacuation attempt by German 17th Army. The '60 Miles from Mandalay' headline probably refers to operations on the Shwebo plain, or to ...

... , many of the men are unshaven and carry Lee-Enfield .303-in Mk III rifles. A Chindit crouches by the tracks of the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway, manning a Vickers .303-in water-cooled heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod. A bare-chested Chindit fires a ...

... with outboard motors churning the water. Putting a 3.7-inch gun onto the raft.

Notes

Tigyaing is almost due north of Mandalay and about 30 miles south of Katha. 36th Division was part of the multinational Northern Combat Area Command, and at ...

... 's push down the 'railway corridor', in turn part of US General Stilwell's three-pronged offensive south towards Mandalay. Stubborn Japanese resistance and poor cooperation from the neighbouring Chinese 50th Division meant that Indaw, Naba and Katha were ...

... , cram weeks of shopping into a few minutes". as food is served to troops.

III. "FROM THE LEDO ROAD TO MOGAUNG-MANDALAY" Jeeps are transported to a Division along the Ledo Road, across bridges built by Engineers and then down river, fastened to rafts ...

... a multi-national force comprising American and Chinese troops in addition to British 36th Division. The repair of the Mogaung-Mandalay railway line was an important part of improving communications in this area.

Colonel Dupuy was the commander of an ...

... and Americans (including a Tommy gun-toting Military Policeman), goes to see the wreckage of rolling stock on the Myitkyina-Mandalay railway line. Short pan of derailed wagons. Mountbatten meeting Lieutenant-Colonel Dr Gordon Seagrave at his missionary ...

... Bren guns, and are also seen repairing a bridge on the Mogaung-Mandalay railway line.

Close-up of the lock of an Enfield No.4 rifle ... to a river. Indian Engineers at work repairing the Mogaung-Mandalay railway line; a sapper uses a torch to cut a rail. ...

... of Perthville, Bathurst, New South Wales.

Dopesheet attributes this footage to raids on railway yards at Pyinmana (on the Rangoon-Mandalay line) and a supply base at Taungup.

For other footage of Liberator operations in this theatre, see ABY 29 ...

... header'>Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and ... . A crossroad with buildings. A signpost shows the way to 'Mandalay Rd', 'Kin-U', 'Sadaung', '22 FAMO' [22 Forward Airfield Maintenance ...

... IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Lord Mountbatten visits a forward airstrip near Mandalay, with scenes of Hawker Hurricane operations and the RAF Regiment.

Hawker Hurricane AW:Z of RAF 42 Squadron lands ...

... ground crew from a nearby forward airstrip spend a few hours visiting the ancient Burmese capital of Shwebo, in Sagaing, north-west of Mandalay, Burma.

Airmen armed with Sten submachine guns walk along a dusty road with bullock carts passing in the ...

... dropping from the aircraft with explosions. Panning shot of Mandalay hill.

Notes

Date from dopesheet. Likely that ... date of shooting is up to two weeks earlier, as by 21 March 1945 Mandalay was considered sufficiently secure for Lieutenant-General ...

... Corps, visit Pagoda Hill, overlooking Mandalay, Burma.

Rees and Stopford on the ... a pall of smoke. Panning shot across Mandalay. Pagodas in the city. A view of the ... related operations for the capture of Mandalay were extensively covered by British Army ...

... . Some buildings are roofless, others totally destroyed. Bomb damage to nearby railway tracks (probably the Lashio-Mandalay line).

Notes

No slates, date on dopesheet noted as approximate.

Dopesheet adds: 'These shots taken shortly after ...

... mythical lion-like guardian. Walking up the covered southern steps of Mandalay Hill (AKA Pagoda Hill or Monastery Hill). Mountbatten ... of the fort and city.

Notes

Mountbatten's visits to Mandalay were also covered by British Army cameramen. See ...

... WORLD WARGB

Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, visits a forward airfield on the Mandalay Front, Burma.

Air Marshal Park talking with Group Captain H Goddard and Air Vice Marshal Vincent, Air ...

... A Chevrolet CMP lorry pulls out on to a road and passes a sign reading 'Mandalay'. Close-up of the driver's cab. Close-up of the sign reading 'Mandalay' with two local Burmese children squatting on the ground next to it. A group ...

... of peasant agriculture and Buddhist temple bells near Mandalay, Burma.

Burmese peasant farmers thresh grain using ... .['] [This something of a misquote of Kipling's 1892 poem 'Mandalay'].

Dopesheet refers to separately recorded sound of temple ...

... -General Sir William Slim, commander of 14th Army, is honoured with performances of traditional Burmese entertainments at Monywa, northwest of Mandalay, Burma.

A car arrives. Lieutenant-General Slim gets out and is saluted. A second car pulls up and ...

... attack and supply operations in and around Mandalay, Burma.

Aerial footage; the camera aircraft ... which starts to peel left. View over Mandalay; the camera aircraft rolls left ... and exiting the target area towards Mandalay Hill at tree-top height. View ...

... 'March on Delhi' offensive of 1944 to the Allies' recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon in May 1945.

The visual material is ... troops; the advance South over the Chindwin and Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Rangoon. "3 Japanese armies, the largest Japanese land ...

... front’, but no fighting is shown. The film concludes by stating that ‘the battles which ended at Rangoon and Mandalay were beginning’, yet ultimately the representation of war, both for the Africans who had fought and for those watching ...

... in Burma, New Guinea. (Reel 3) Further Pacific conflict, British Fourteenth Army, Chinese airlifts. Japan in retreat. Fall of Mandalay. Borneo. Allies close in; atomic bomb. August 1945: surrender.

Notes

Summary: one of the series "made in ...

... ", and gives a comparatively detailed account of subsequent military events, including the Battle of Imphal-Kohima and Slim's drive on Mandalay, Arakan landings, the northern offensive of the Americans and Chinese under Stilwell, and the roles played by ...

... . The West Africans have thus helped the British drive on Mandalay by containing Japanese forces in Arakan. The 82nd pursues the enemy ... and arduous campaign’ – and notes that when Mandalay fell to ‘British and Indian forces, West Africans ...

... wagons past camera.

Notes

The dopesheet provides the following background information: 'In preparation for the push south from Mandalay and Meiktila rolling stock is being recovered at Alon near Monywa by a railway operating company of the ...

... the Japanese strong points.

Notes

These events form part of XXXIII Corps' crossing of the Irrawaddy before the advance on Mandalay. 19th Indian Division and 20th Indian Division were to cross first, with 2nd British Division crossing after and ...

... header'>The Japanese Army constructed a road through the Arakan, Burma, from the An Valley to Taungup and Prome (Pyay), south of Mandalay; after the road was cut off by XV Indian Corps Japanese defences were inspected and the road used for British Army ...

... header'>The Japanese Army constructed a road through the Arakan, Burma, from the An Valley to Taungup and Prome (Pyay), south of Mandalay; after the road was cut off by XV Indian Corps Japanese defences were inspected and the road used for British Army ...

... THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Film showing various activities of the Civil Affairs Service (Burma) in Mandalay, including collecting weapons, issuing rations and pensions, distributing captured Japanese supplies and declaring price ...

... , it also provides a fairly rare glimpse of Major-General Rees (who not long before had been overseeing his division's assault on Mandalay) in an informal setting. For more film coverage of this party, and of Maymyo more generally, see related items.