Title:CHILDREN'S TEA PARTY AT BATAVIA ZOO [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 464
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Men of 101 General Purpose Transport Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, entertain a party of refugee Dutch children at Batavia Zoo in Batavia, Netherlands East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia).
Description: Two shots of children being helped down from a lorry by a soldier. Children ride a model railway at the zoo which has to be pushed along by a number of Indian other ranks; a number of the kids lend a hand. Five kids and an Indian soldier slide down a chute. Major Mornington, the company commander, shows the children an orangutan in a rather bare-looking barred cage. An Indian soldier is playfully mauled by the orangutan through the bars of its cage. Wide shot of children at the monkey house; food is thrown through the chain link enclosure. Two closer shots of the monkeys being fed and climbing on their enclosure. Brief shot of a hippo, jaws agape, being fed. [A young Dutch girl holds Sergeant Miller's slate number board.] Children sitting on a swing ('kept in order by [Indian other ranks] of the unit' - from the dopesheet) pushed by Indian troops. Alternative angle. Wide shot of children playing on the slides. Children and minders walk towards camera. More footage of the hippo. Brief shot showing an elephant being fed. Children sitting at tea tables being waited on by Indian other ranks. An Indian soldier holds out trays of cakes or pastries to the children; 'RIASC' (Royal Indian Army Service Corps) can be read on his epaulette. Wide shot with seated children eating. Looking along a table. A girl drinks from a large bottle. A small boy drinks from a teacup. Brief shot with Indian troops serving the children.
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)
Miller, E E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 101 General Purpose Transport Company (regiment/service)
Keywords: Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees 1945, Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
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