Title:SIR KEITH PARK VISITS HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 424
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Keith Park, Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, visits Hong Kong with his wife.
Description: Lady Park boards a car at Government House, Hong Kong. Lady Park inspects a swimming pool at a previously exclusive club which is in the process of being converted into a services club. ACM Park and Lady Park outside a large building; a workman is digging on the pavement and traffic is passing. The camera tilts up to a show a sign reading 'Union Jack Club for Combined Services NAAFI/EFI' [Navy Army Air Force Institute/Expeditionary Forces Institute]. A sign reads 'St Nicholas Catholic Services Club - Open to all servicemen in uniform and merchant seamen of the fleet train'. Lady Park enters. Lady Park meets a young Chinese boy, the mascot of the local RAF squadron (see note). Party arriving at an RAF hospital in Kowloon. The party are met by a nurse on the hospital steps and go inside. Park and Lady Park meet patients. The party survey the site of a new RAF airfield 25 miles from Kowloon (RAF Sek Kong?). Consulting a map with Wing Commander Fawdry, the officer in charge of construction of the new airfield. Park presses down the plunger on a detonator; a large explosion blasts rock from a hillside on the site of the airfield (the cameraman's dopesheet apologetically notes that 'camera movement here due to debris flying through the air in my direction'). At Fanling, on the border with China, Park and party meet members of No. 5 Army Commando. Party passes camera; a number of local peasants mill about. Park meets commandos at their guardroom.
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)
Tulloch, John ReayJohn Reay Tulloch, 375458, sergeant (later lieutenant, commissioned 25 April 1946) cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit (SEAC Film Unit). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Park, Dorothy (person)
Brook, William Arthur Darville (person)
Harcourt, Cecil Halliday Jepson (person)
Park, Keith Rodney (person)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
British Army, No 5 Commando (regiment/service)
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (regiment/service)
Keywords: Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong (geography)
Kowloon, Hong Kong (geography)
Hong Kong (geography)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
ABY 180 (AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR KEITH PARK VISITS HONG KONG [Allocated Title])
ABY 169 (SPITFIRE SQUADRON AT KAI TAK AIRSTRIP [Allocated Title])
JFU 517 (LORD MOUNTBATTEN VISITS TROOPS IN HONG KONG [Allocated Title])
JFU 649 (HONG KONG SWIMMING GALA AND BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST [Allocated Title])
