Title:MOUNTBATTEN INSPECTS EAST AFRICAN TROOPS IN CEYLON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 223
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:Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, inspects troops of 11th East African Division in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Description:Various shots of Mountbatten inspecting East African troops. Wide shot; Mountbatten speaks to East African troops, who are sitting on the ground around him. Inspecting British officers. Speaking to a British captain. Speaking to other officers. He speaks to African non-commissioned officers (NCOs). African troops marching freely with rifles slung. Marching away down a road. Another group of African troops (unarmed). Mountbatten addresses British officers and NCOs. Mountbatten meets two European officers of an East African Unit, apparently from the Belgian Congo. Inspecting East African troops. Meeting British officers. Medium close-up of the divisional commander, Major-General Charles Fowkes. Inspecting African troops in fighting order. Leaning on the tailboard of a lorry Mountbatten speaks to British troops; they get up. Meeting British troops; they step towards him one at a time. East African troops on parade; they have black squares on their bush hats. Mountbatten inspects them. Two close-ups of an East African soldier, a driver of a reconnaissance car. Mountbatten inspecting. Medium close-up East African. Three African soldiers on parade. Looking along a line of African soldiers with their rifles. Mountbatten passes camera. Line of troops. A unit of troops marches away. More troops marching past camera. Faces of African soldiers passing camera. Shot from a moving vehicle of African troops at the roadside.
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
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:MWY 223
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-05-09-1944-05-09
Production Country:American
Production Details:SEAC Photo Unit (US) (Production company)
Widmayer, William (Production individual)
