Title:USE OF FLOATING DOCKS AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 297
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Film demonstrating the use of a floating dock on the Rangoon river, Burma.
Description: At Rangoon docks a wide shot shows a merchant ship berthed alongside a floating dock platform. View from the platform with a number of men (dockworkers or military engineers?) sitting on the floating surface. The surface can be seen flexing slightly on the water. Close-up of the interlocking dock structure. High shots looking down over the floating dock. View down a gangway leading to the dockside; a number of British personnel go down. A Captain Jones, sat on a pile of engineering stores, speaks with his jemadar (a junior Viceroy's Commissioned Officer) and looks at a set of blueprints. Footage taken from a boat on the river showing varous views of the docks with wharves, ships (one apparently a large liner or troopship), local boats and waterfront warehouses (some with obvious bomb damage). A Colonel Gilbert conferring with Captain Jones. A tug tows a large section of floating platform. Two sections are linked together.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Higgins, K G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, Indian Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Liberation of Rangoon 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 250 (SCENES FOLLOWING LIBERATION OF RANGOON AND VIEWS OF RANGOON DOCKS [Allocated Title])
JFU 276 (SUPREMO VISITS RANGOON [Allocated Title])
JIN 69 (REBUILDING AND REHABILITATION OF RANGOON [Allocated Title])
JIN 62 (ROYAL INDIAN NAVY OFFICER PILOTS FIRST LARGE SHIP INTO DEVASTATED RANGOON DOCKS [Allocated Title])
