INDIAN ENGINEERS CONSTRUCT AERIAL ROPEWAY IN ITALY [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: INDIAN ENGINEERS CONSTRUCT AERIAL ROPEWAY IN ITALY [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MWY 30
  • 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: Indian Engineers of the Madras Sappers and Miners, part of 10th Indian Division, erect an aerial ropeway to transport vehicles, guns and casualties across a ravine in Italy, and infantry are seen training.
  • Description: A shot from a low position, looking up; on the left of the frame a brick wall with Indian troops and above a cable running across a gap, with a jeep suspended from two pulleys on the cable. The jeep moves slowly across the gap on the cable. Team of Indian Engineers (wreath with star capbadge) hauling on a thick rope. Another angle of the jeep moving across the gap. Tilt from pulleys to the jeep with Indian troops busy attending to the ropes etc. A Bedford 3-ton lorry, the sun shining brightly from its windscreen, is used to hoist the jeep up; the jeep rises. Brief shot shows an Indian soldier standing up on the jeep, now hanging above camera. Pan, in bright sunshine, showing a river running through a steep ravine. Indian Engineers at work on the ravineside with ropes. Preparing the jeep. View looking down on a destroyed bridge with an Indian Engineers’ Bailey bridge under construction. Alternative view of the site. Launching a Bailey section. A 6-pounder anti-tank gun is positioned for transit on the ropeway. The gun is hoisted up with a soldier sitting astride it. Three Indian soldiers, wearing Red Cross armbands, attending to a cradle system. A stretcher carrying a casualty is attached to the ropeway and hauled across. Stretcher case arriving; he is unhooked and put straight into the back of an ambulance. An Indian soldier swims across a fast flowing river with a cable. Casualties are put onto an improvised raft. Soldiers haul on a rope. The raft is floated into the river. [764 ft] Indian Bren gun team firing; pan to troops moving up through scrub under cover of a smoke grenade (a man is seen throwing a smoke grenade). Troops charging amidst the ruins of a bridge and through water. [858 ft]
  • 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]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MWY 30
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) Ingram, G E (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, Indian Engineers, Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners Group (regiment/service) Indian Army, 10th Indian Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, Indian Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Italy 1939-1945 (theme) Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 858 ft (approx); Running time: 10 mins
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