KUANTAN, MALAYA: DELIVERY OF RICE BY SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: KUANTAN, MALAYA: DELIVERY OF RICE BY SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 363
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Following the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron, delivering rice to the people of Kuantan, Malaya, a second Sunderland arrives to replace the lost rice and recover the crew.
  • Description: A Sunderland ('Z') passes directly overhead with local people watching it arrive. People watch as it comes in to land. Sunderland landing. Local people on a wooden jetty. People on a river ferry. Sunderland taxiing. Sunderland taxis across shot right-to-left. The crews of the two Sunderlands meet; they enter shot from opposite sides and vigorously shake hands. Closer shot of Flight Lieutenant Moonlight (pilot of 'T for Tommy', the crashed plane) and Squadron Leader Nicholson (pilot of 'Z' ) shaking hands. 'Z' in midstream and 'T for Tommy' behind. 'Z' on her take off run; she lifts off the water. People watch the Sunderland recede into the distance.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: JFU 363
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-10-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Girling, F P (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, 230 Squadron (regiment/service) British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Kuantan, Pahang, Malaya (geography) Allied Occupation of Malaya, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event) India 1939-1945 (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: 197 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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    JFU 363

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ABY 12 ('SUNDERLAND STORY' - TRANSPORT AND EVACUATION OF BRITISH CASUALTIES BY SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT AT DIBRUGARH, ASSAM, INDIA [Allocated Title]) ABY 61 (CEYLON FLYING BOAT BASE [Allocated Title]) ABY 191 (CIVILIAN EVACUATION, RAF REGIMENT PATROLS AND KEITH PARK IN BATAVIA [Allocated Title]) ABY 146 (SALVAGING A SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT ON THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER [Allocated Title]) MWY 25 (OPERATION RIVER: AIR EVACUATION OF CHINDITS BY SUNDERLAND FLYING BOATS OF 230 SQUADRON RAF [Allocated Title]) JFU 534 (THAI RICE BEING UNLOADED ONTO DUCKS AT PORT SWETTENHAM, MALAYA [Allocated Title]) ABY 139 (ISLAND BASES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: ISLE OF MAHÉ, ADDU ATOLL AND DIEGO GARCIA [Allocated Title]) ABY 9 (AMPHIBIOUS EVACUATION OF CASUALTIES BY SUNDERLAND AIRCRAFT, DIBRUGARH, INDIA [Allocated Title])
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