INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 57 [Main Title]

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  • Title: INDIAN NEWS PARADE NO 57 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: INR 57
  • Other titles: INDIAN NEWS PARADE [Series Title]
  • Summary: I. ARMY TRUCKS RALLY TO RAILWAY'S RESCUE II. OFFICER CADETS FOR THE INDIAN AIR FORCE III. A BUMPER CROP IV. IAMC ANNIVERSARY V. DARING ESCAPE FROM A JAPANESE PRISON VI. WINGATE'S PHANTOM ARMY
  • Description: I. ARMY TRUCKS RALLY TO RAILWAY'S RESCUE - Empty Army lorries, you've often seen them and may be you've often had the same idea as the railways, why not use them to help ease the congestion on our railroads. Well, it's being done, and here you see them taking a load that was waiting for a train. They can't often get convoys of fifty lorries like this, but when they can they certainly don't miss the chance. So next time you hear lorries rumbling by may be it's just the railways taking a short cut past your front garden. II. OFFICER CADETS FOR THE INDIAN AIR FORCE - Air Commodore Vincent goes to witness what is called the passing out parade. It's the Indian air Force Cadets so may be they ought to call it a taking off parade. But they stick to Army traditions as here, where Officer Cadet Jebb gets the Sword of honour for being the best cadet of the course. Even more in the tradition of prize giving was the silver bowl that another cadet received. And talking of traditions, Air Commodore Vincent reminded them that they were joining an Air Force which, though young already had some very fine traditions of service and courage of its own. And some notabilities too. The Raja of Jawa for instance a flight lieutenant. But every boy of the two hundred who were in the march past had high hopes of being a notability in his own right, of doing something that people would talk about and remember in his new career. It's India's Air Force of tomorrow on parade. III. A BUMPER CROP - Not just pictures of harvest, but pictures that make up a cross section of changing India. The crop is magnificent. That's what we've always had, wonderful natural resources. And the peasants, they're another part of our permanent wealth. They've worked this way since history's first harvest. Is it the best way? As the bullock carts move off, a new India looms in the background, a great white bridge, a sign of the machine age, like the rubber wheels that here and there, are found on the bullock carts. Then, suddenly the machine age jumps into the foreground, and power driven threshing machines beat out the corn that is urgently needed to feed our ever growing population. It's pointing the ways that India must go. We must grow food, and grow it quickly. Only machines can make the pace. IV. IAMC ANNIVERSARY - A new flag going up to celebrate the first anniversary of the youngest formation in the Indian Army. General Board and Colonel Basu inspect the parade of the year old Indian Army Medical Corps. There was a message from the Commander-in-Chief and Colonel Thapar read it in Urdu. The C-in-C said they'd done good work in the first year and he relied upon them to continue it. It's certainly important work. You've only to think of the Burma Front to realise that, tropical jungle, where disease, uncontrolled, would be worth a dozen divisions to the Japs. So the medical Corps at the invitation of the Colonel's wife, proudly went to its first birthday party. V. DARING ESCAPE FROM A JAPANESE PRISON - Meet a man who met the Japs, and knows them for what they are. Havildar major Allah Dad was captured, crammed into a small room with fifty other prisoners, starved and brutally treated. Set to building roads, he escaped into the jungle, swam the Salween river, and now he's home with an IDSM and a wonderful story to tell. VI. WINGATE'S PHANTOM ARMY - "He was so proud of you". That is what Lord Louis Mountbatten said to Wingate's men when he told them he was dead. Here in these last pictures of him, you can see him among them men that he was proud to lead. It is difficult to recognise him without his beard, easier to see why he was called this war's Lawrence of Arabia. With Lord Louis we can look back on those things that made Wingate famous. To call out his genius, Wingate had to be asked to do the impossible. Such men build triumphs out of tiny details; Wingate's equipment of his men was a masterpiece of care. Wingate knew that a man in a jungle is a man on his own. He gave his men that ultimate courage, the courage to fight alone. He liked the wild places of the earth. In Abyssinia, in the jungles of Burma he led his soldiers out to fight a modern war where men had thought themselves lucky to be alive at all. Nobody but he could have sent Indian, British and American troops out into such country and brought them back in triumph. Like T E Lawrence, he knew the deadly power of the small weapon accurately handled. The mountain gun, the mortar, the light machine gun in the hands of his men outshone the vast machines of contemporary battle. And at this last parade was Colonel Philip Cochran, whose men won Wingate's last great triumph, when with brilliant organisation he put a fighting force by glider behind and between the enemy's lines. And Lord Louis ended his inspection of the men who were seen to lose a leader whom he described as the finest any force could wish to have.
  • Alternative Title: INDIAN NEWS PARADE [Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: INR 57
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
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  • Production Date: 1944-04
  • Production Country: GB India
  • Production Details: Department of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India (Production sponsor) Moylan, William J (Production individual) Moylan, William J (Production individual) Ghatak, S C (Production individual) Khopkar, A M (Production individual) Rao, D P (Production individual) Khopkar, A M (Production individual) Mani, T S (Production individual) SEAC Photo Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 599 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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