Title:DR VAN MOOK HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE IN BATAVIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 420
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Dr Hubertus Johannes van Mook, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, holds a press conference at his residence in Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia).
Description: Interior shots of the press conference in progress. Pans around the assembled correspondents. Exterior footage in the garden of the residence. Dr van Mook talks with Ian Morrison, a war correspondent. Close-up of van Mook.
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)
MacTavish, DuncanDuncan MacTavish, service number 378125, sergeant cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, later promoted 2nd Lieutenant 6 September 1945 (see Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 April 1947). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mook, Hubertus Johannes van (person)
Morrison, Ian (person)
Keywords: Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Indonesian Independence, Independence Movements (event)
Empire & Commonwealth (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
