Title:INDIAN ARMY FIELD BAKERY IN BURMA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 77
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: The 47 bakers of 1029 Indian Field Bakery work to bake fresh bread in forward areas near Shwebo in Burma.
Description: Indian bakers kneading large tubs of dough. The dough is formed into smaller pieces and put into tins. Man pokes a mud oven. A baker, squatting on the ground, lays out tins; a number of other bakers stand behind but their faces are out of shot. Closer shot. Human chain passes tins along. Camera tilts up an assembly of several hundred loaves waiting for baking; bakers stand around and one is waving a cloth over the tops of the loaves. Closer shot of the baker. Tins going into a small mud oven. A baker prepares yeast by squeezing it over a strainer. Closer shots of the resulting liquid. Loaves of bread coming out of an oven and being tipped out. Two men carry a wooden pallet covered in many loaves. More bread removed from oven and the growing pile of bread. Two Indian soldiers; one cuts a slice of bread with a dah (machete) and they eat it.
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]
Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor)
Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company)
Walker, A T (Production individual)
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Keywords: Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
