SUPPLIES FOR ARAKAN [Allocated Title]

Metadata


  • Title: SUPPLIES FOR ARAKAN [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 1777
  • Other titles: BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: West African troops disembark from the cameraship onto a rubble strewn quayside. Indian dock labourers handle cargo slings from unloading merchantman and transfer crates onto a roller conveyor which runs into a camouflaged warehouse. Armed sentries, also Indian, look on. Inside the warehouse workers roll tyres to storage areas, and stack crates of munitions - AT mines, guncotton charges, etc.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: supplies, British, storage [RA] - munitions (object name) Arakan, Burma (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 230 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 1777

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