MULES FOR THE BURMA FRONT [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MULES FOR THE BURMA FRONT [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 149
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: At a Remount Depot and Veterinary Hospital, mules are treated and trained ready for service on the Burma front.
  • Description: A line of mules; each is held by an Indian muleteer. A British officer, presumably of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps or Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), inspects a mule. He reaches into its mouth. Two men at a portable field forge for heating branding irons. A farrier takes an iron from the forge and uses it to brand a mule's hoof with a regimental number. Mules are harnessed; one animal refuses the harness before calming down. Mules being exercised on a circular track. A mule has a metal clamp put into its mouth to enable a vet to extract a tooth. More footage of the mules being exercised. A vet takes a blood spot from a mule's ear in order to test for surra, a potentially fatal disease caused by a blood-borne protozoa. The blood spot is examined under a microscope and the mule innoculated as a precaution. A mule is shoed by a blacksmith. More footage of the mules being exercised, including a low shot of mules running towards (and over) the camera. The mules are harried along by two Sikhs on horseback.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: JFU 149
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Brown, T V (Production individual) Higgins, K G (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Veterinary Corps (regiment/service) Indian Army, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Burma 1942-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 439 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    JFU 149

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 126 (EVACUATION OF "SPECIAL FORCE" MULES AND MEN BY WATERBORNE CRAFT MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THE OCCASION [Allocated Title])
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