Title:JAPANESE LABOURERS BUILDING HUTS AT 54 FIELD AMBULANCE IN LOPBURI, SIAM [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 479
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At Lopburi, 100 miles north-east of Bangkok, Siam (Thailand) Japanese surrendered personnel work to build huts at the Main Dressing Station of 54 Field Ambulance.
Description: Japanese prisoner sitting on the ground and eating out of his mess tin. Wider shot with more Japanese prisoners eating. Man eating rice; he picks pieces of dried fish out of his mess tin. Closer shot. Shot of the man's food. Profile close-up. Men sat on a terrace eating. More views of the men eating. A pair of spectacles on the ground. High shot with a wooden hut frame in right foreground and men making roofing material. Second angle. Men at work on the roof. Levelling the ground by digging. Closer shot. Japanese prisoner with spade. Japanese prisoner with pick axe. Shadow of a Japanese man at work. A Japanese internee, squatting on the ground, ties palm fronds together to make roofing material. Closer shots showing the technique. Man at work with pick axe; in the background men work on the roof frame. Second angle of man with pick. Third angle, from a low position, looking up at the man silhouetted against the sky. Close-up man at work with fronds. Close-up of a bespectacled Japanese soldier. Man tying fronds. Close-up of a Japanese prisoner. Wide shot of huts under construction. Two other angles showing general activity. Five men at work on the roof. Closer shot and alternative angle. Men digging in the foreground; in the background a thatched roof section is lifted up. Men carry away a sack of earth. Men tying fronds. Closer shot.
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)
Hammond, R G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, 54th Field Ambulance (regiment/service)
Keywords: Lopburi, Thailand (geography)
Allied Occupation of Siam, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
