Title:INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY PRISONERS WORKING AT DEVASTATED RANGOON DOCKS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JIN 77
Other titles:INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Following the British reoccupation of Rangoon, capital of Burma, former members of the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army move supplies at the devastated Rangoon docks, and Indian Engineers clear rubble.
Description: High a wide shot looking along the dockside at Rangoon docks; on the right a berthed merchant ship, on the left heaps of rubble and behind the tower of the Rangoon Port Commissioners building. Shot from the level of the dockside with British troops. Various shots of an Indian Engineers’ bulldozer at work clearing rubble. Indian troops disembarking from a ship at the docks; they follow a path carved through the wreckage. More troops disembark. Looking up at the ship. Stores unloaded from a ship. A net of stores lowered to the dockside; a man clears his nose in the foreground. The stores are moved with a roller runway by Indian National Army prisoners. Indian soldier (Japanese stripes?). Stores are rolled into a warehouse on the dockside. Looking into the warehouse with activity stretching into the background. Indian soldier standing guard with rifle and fixed bayonet. Wide shots of activity in the warehouse. A stack of crates marked ‘Mines Contact A.T [Anti-Tank] Mk V H C – Filled TNT – 5 fuze covers’. Stacked stores in the warehouse. Crates marked ‘Guncotton’. More supplies being moved and stacked.
Alternative Title:INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor)
Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company)
Sprague, John (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Japanese Forces, Indian National Army (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Indian Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Rangoon, Burma (geography)
JIN 72 (INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY PRISONERS WORKING AT DEVASTATED RANGOON DOCKS [Allocated Title])
JIN 69 (REBUILDING AND REHABILITATION OF RANGOON [Allocated Title])
JIN 62 (ROYAL INDIAN NAVY OFFICER PILOTS FIRST LARGE SHIP INTO DEVASTATED RANGOON DOCKS [Allocated Title])
MUN 195 ()
