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Title:RAF REOPEN THE RAILWAY BETWEEN KOWLOON AND LO WU [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ABY 173
Other titles:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The reopening of the Kowloon-Lo Wu railway line gets off to a decidedly mixed start, and RAF men mix with Chinese soldiers.
Description: View looking along the carriages of a train underway. RAF airmen, European and Chinese civilians can be seen. In one of the compartments RAF airmen talk with a Chinese civilian who tries to open a nondescript can of food. At a station crowds gather. RAF airmen lean out of their carriage to drop small items to Chinese children begging below. Close-up of a middle-aged looked airman. Officers and airmen befriending Chinese children. Two men exchange their RAF forage caps for straw hats. The train pulls slowly out of the station and a few RAF men dash along beside it. View from the train as it pulls away from the platform. View from the footplate. A man in a topee surveys the scenery. The train, derailed, with Chinese civilians milling about. The locomotive with its nose buried in the ground. Two British airmen and two Chinese soldiers exchange rifles; a Chinese man handles a .303-calibre Enfield No.4 while an airman is shown the action of a Soviet 7.62mm Mosin-Nagant rifle. A Chinese soldier explains the use of a stick grenade. Another shows an officer his pistol, which is either a (German) Mauser C96 'broomhandle' automatic or a very similar Chinese copy. RAF officers watch from a carriage. Two Chinese soldiers board the train. Two others put on a demonstration of bayonet fighting. An American, British and two Chinese officers talking. Panning view over Hong Kong harbour.
Alternative Title:ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company)
Layzell, R G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Chinese Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kowloon, Hong Kong (geography)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)