... 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 ...

... ). 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- ...

Rangoon, Mandalay, Penang Funeral', 1930s

... 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 ...

... WORLD WARGB

Lieutenant-General W J Slim leads a flag unfurling ceremony at inside Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, Burma, after British troops forced the Japanese out of the city and the fort complex.

Lieutenant-General Slim ...

... 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 ...

... (hara kiri or seppuku) and the hazardous nature of the road). Another sign reads 'Indo-Burma Frontier - Straight on for Mandalay and Tokio'. Aerial footage showing the ruggedness of the terrain, the winding road, a railway line and forest.

Film ...

... Japanese) field gun on an archaic-looking wheeled carriage. A signpost gives directions to Rangoon (127 miles), Ananbaw (8 miles) and Mandalay (315 miles). Motor transport passes. Close-ups of the signpost. Stuart tanks kicking up clouds of dust as they ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... , 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.