Title:PRE-WAR AND WARTIME SCENES IN SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6913
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY LIEUTENANT BERTRAM BURGESS [Alternative title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Bertram Burgess, Royal Engineers, while serving (possibly with 35th Fortress Company) on Pulau Brani, Singapore, records military and family scenes.
Description: Reel 1 Kilted Highland Regiment outside Raffles Hotel, during a major social event. Soldiers preparing to dynamite rock on Pulua Brani Malay coolie labour. Detonation. Mrs Burgess with her son Nick, two year old toddler with curly blonde hair . Chinese temple. Nick pushed in pram by ayah. Building of RE barracks on Pulau Brani and horse-racing at the Singapore Turf Club, ca 1936 (19 mins 35 secs)
Reel 2 Parade ground. Coronation Parade in Penang (Malaya) in May 1937. (Very underexposed) Governor takes salute. Sailors, soldiers and Indian Army troops past, all wearing solar topees. (6 mins 10 secs)
Reel 3: (Colour) Courthouse. Shipping off shore. Street scenes. Chinese junks. On board ship looking down on dockside prior to departure home. Nick on deck. French and RN vessels. Gateway to India, Bombay. Lifeboat drill. 1940 (4 mins 23 secs)
Reel 4: Inspection of nurses (Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Services ?), then parading past. Then troops parading past (brief colour). Kilted soldiers (Seaforth Highlanders ?) Parade drill by soldiers outside colonial style barracks. ca 1936 (4 mins 50 secs)
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY LIEUTENANT BERTRAM BURGESS [Alternative title]
Colour:Colour/B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 6913
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1936
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Burgess, Bertram (Production individual)
