Title:COLLECTING WATER CRAFT AND RAFTBUILDING IN THE ARAKAN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 105
Other titles:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Somewhere in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, possibly in the Kalapanzin or Kaladan river area, African troops (probably 81st West African Division) are seen crossing a river, while Indian Engineers construct a raft.
Description: A jeep, with a driver and a British officer on board; an Indian military policeman gestures the jeep on through a damaged road tunnel (Maungdaw-Buthidaung road?). A sign at the tunnel entrance reads ‘XXIV Tunnel’. A folding boat at a river’s edge with African infantry on board. A boat paddling off. African troops boarding a boat and paddling away. Wide shot river with boat on far bank. A tank transport passes carrying a local narrow boat. Indian troops (engineers?) pushing a boat into the water. A tank transporter with boat onboard reverses towards camera. Indian Engineers carrying wooden planking (for pontoon/raft?). A muscular Indian Engineer, holding up one end of the planking, smiles for the camera. Various shots Indian Engineers at work on a pontoon or raft. Passing a heavy wooden beam down a riverbank. A bulldozer drives down to the water’s edge. Engineers carrying thick wooden beams. Planking the deck. A jeep reverses onto the raft. A Browning medium machine gun is put on the driver’s seat of the jeep.
Alternative Title:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
