BURMA WEIGHT LIFTING [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BURMA WEIGHT LIFTING [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6196
  • Other titles: COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: Four Burmese men, wearing only shorts, walk into shot and pose for the camera standing behind the weights, a white bridge over a river in the background. One man stays in shot and lifts the weights while the other three walk away. Each man takes it in turn to lift the weights. The Shwedagon pagoda is just visible in the background.
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 1 min ca
  • Notes: Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings. Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1944 Technical: film marked "original" Small part of weightlifting scene also in MGH 6163
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 6196

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