Title:AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION AT COMILLA AND DUM DUM, INDIA, ON THE BURMA FRONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 20
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Description:Various stages in the construction of an airfield, starting with a landscape shot with aircraft parked in the background and local labourers with engineering plant in the midground. Two RAF officers operating a theodolite. Bulldozer clearing loose earth and locals using tools to clear turf as a twin-engined Avro Anson takes off very close by. Coolies unload stones from a lorry. Other workers busy breaking bricks, and a riddle is used to sort these. Baskets of stones are laid down and tar poured over them. A number of labourers pull a roller. Shot of a bullock cart, while in the background an Anson taxis past a Buddhist temple. A cement mixer, tar engine and steamroller. Bricks are laid in an alternating diagonal 'herringbone' pattern. One labourer mixing cement with his feet. Cement poured over brickwork and tamped flat. RAF Douglas Dakota aircraft taxiing before departing the airfield.
Alternative Title:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:ABY 20
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-09-04-1944-09-04
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company)
Goozee, S (Production individual)
