Title:UNLOADING SUPPLIES AT BATAVIA DOCKS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 388
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The American merchantman SS Canton Victory laden with foodstuffs and en route to New Guinea is diverted to Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia).
Description: Taken from the deck of the ship: a cargo net full of sacks of flour is lowered towards the dockside. A net is lifted out of the hold. A net is lowered to a barge on the water below. Other sacks are hoisted out.
Taken from the dockside: cargo nets filled with sacks of flour, other sacks and small wooden barrels are lowered onto the quay. Wide shot showing the general scene. Sacks are carried into a warehouse. High view over the dockside; more sacks and barrels are unloaded.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Hewit, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Merchant Navy, CANTON VICTORY (SS), freighter (regiment/service)
Keywords: Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Empire & Commonwealth (theme)
