BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

As British troops of 2nd Division advance across the Shwebo plain they pass through the devastated village of Taze, a man wounded near Myingatha is ...

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British troops of ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

A football match is played at King's Park, Kowloon, between a team from No. 44 Commando Royal Marines and a local Chinese team.

General Festing, ...

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(Reel 1) Hurricane Mk Is of 111 Squadron at Northolt, 1939-1940. Fighter pilots practise air to air wireless communication by riding bicycles, fitted with radio sets in front of handle bars, across tarmac at Northolt. Experiment/training is watched ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Reel 1: A small motor launch draws alongside a troopship. A Major climbs a staircase up to the deck followed by a Major-General. Talking to a Military Policeman. The general is ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Frank Worth (a friend of Colonel Hodgkinson in the Royal Indian Navy) in the Shwedagon pagoda, Rangoon. A shot of the pagoda from the road. The officer walks past the camera, carrying a camera. Palm trees ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of a reconstruction showing the Burma National Army allied to the Japanese.

Soldiers wearing red armbands line up on parade. An officer marches past with large ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Offcuts from Colonel Hodgkinson's films in Burma.

Close-up views of oil pumps working. Two passengers in a type of rickshaw. Women in the street carrying parasols. A procession headed ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

High angle, looking at rapids. Ls river between gorge, shot of boat upside down. 2 men on raft. Pan from river to hills. Rapids. Raft shooting rapids. High angle crowd captured by river, some in ...

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Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Miles Arrindell of the Second Battalion Suffolk Regiment records scenes during the Battle of Imphal, including a Japanese prisoner-of-war and the capture of the Isaac feature (June 1944), and later (after transfer to ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

The Burma Rifles presenting arms. A brief shot of two naval officers and sailor. The Burmese Naval Reserves? on parade. Burmese Army? on parade (red shoulder flash with white five-point star). Close-up on ' ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON AMATEUR FILMGB

Funeral of Sawbwa (ruler) of Hsipaw state, in the Northern Shan States of Burma, with parade by Gurkha Battalion (8th ?) who fire volley over coffin. Also scenes of gambling, presumably ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

A DC3/C47 taking off from an airstrip and landing again. A group of Bhuddist monks (sayadaws).

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Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

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COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Offcuts? from the amateur films of Colonel Hodgkinson in Burma.

Aerial view of settlements near a lake, Burma? A long rowing boat, with about twenty rowers and a gong at ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

This amateur film by Colonel Hodgkinson appears to be reconstructed scenes of BNA exercises in the jungle.

Two Burmese soldiers, one plays the bugle. Burma National Army ( ...

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Film about the Allied victory in Burma.

Introduction briefly outlines the geography and climate of Burma, and the extent of the Japanese conquests. The film then describes the establishment of SEAC under Mountbatten, ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten takes the salute of the ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of Victory Parade Day in Rangoon, Burma (15 June 1945). The Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten inspects the representative ...

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Amateur film of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten taking the salute of the representative services at the Naval Review, Rangoon (17 ...

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Sync slates 64 to 66 from Burma Victory (not used in final production) with Mountbatten talking to officers about the excellence of the troops in India, and troops with band playing marching past the camera.

COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while ...

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Titles (2). Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon (50). Boats on Irrawaddy River and (98) market on river bank (106). Mountain and river (118). Market on river bank (124). Sunset (128). Village (130). Men in stream prospecting (139). Village ...

INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

Liberated local people perform traditional dances for British and Indian troops at Pagan, central Burma.

Line of Burmese civilians in elaborate ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

After the retreating Japanese abandon a trainload of foodstuffs in the face of the advancing 5th Indian Division near Pyu, Burma, local civilians are ...