Title:AMERICAN SIGNALLERS LAY TELEPHONE LINE ACROSS THE IRRAWADDY IN NORTHERN BURMA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:FUB 39
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At Katha, on the River Irrawaddy in northern Burma, American signalmen lay a telephone line across the river.
Description: Views of the linesmen at work on a telegraph pole, and climbing up and down by means of irons, with views across the river. The cable is paid out from a spool. A signaller gets into a local boat. Paddled across. Raft with Indian Engineers approaching. Man swimming ashore. Pulling up the cable from the river with a view of its ceramic insulator. Climbing pole.
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)
Miller, E E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Army, Signal Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Irrawaddy (River), Burma (geography)
Katha, Burma (geography)
Operations in Northern Burma 1943-1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
