Title:EXPERIMENTAL RICE CULTIVATION IN BURMA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 659
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At a Government Agriculture Research Station at Hmawbi, north of Rangoon, Burma, paddy fields are ploughed and rice planted.
Description: Various shots of men ploughing a paddy field. Men sowing rice seeds; they scatter handfuls into the water. Field of rice seedlings. Small batches of rice in numbered plots. Two men pull up handfuls of rice for transplanting. Carrying bundles of rice. The bundles are thrown into a paddy field. A line of girls or young women, all uniformly dressed, plant the rice by hand.
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)
Wilson, A (Sergeant) (Production individual)