Title:BURMA FRONT: JEEPS AND MULES ON THE LINES OF SUPPLY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 81
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: In forward areas on the Burma front, a convoy of jeeps carries supplies, while mules are cared for by muleteers of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Description: Various shots of jeeps on hillside road. Parked line of jeeps (according to the dopesheet, part of a 200-jeep convoy) stretching around a bend in the road. Tented camp on hillside. Mules in harness. Indian muleteer rubbing down a mule. A muleteer goes to examine a mule’s hoof; the animal flinches. Brushing a hoof. Mules eating. Mule nibbling a saltlick. Muleteer shows camera a handful of grain and bran from a sack. Line of mules’ tails swishing. Indian soldier with machete chopping fodder. Indian muleteer with armful of fodder which entirely obscures him. Mules eating from nosebags. Muleteers moving supplies for loading onto mules; one man has a carries a box on his head with an empty sandbag for padding. Taking a length of rope off a mule’s back before loading
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)
Coleman, W G St John (Captain) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Assam, India (geography)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Manipur, India (geography)
