Film Number

5683

Title

CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 210

Producer

Combined Kinematograph Services Film Production & Training Centre for The Directorate of Welfare and Amenities. DSK

Date

c1945

Gauge

35mm N

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

13 mins 34 secs

Description

Men from the RAF and Royal Navy serving in Burma send messages home to their loved ones in and around the Manchester area. The film opens in a camp outside a war-damaged ‘Talbot House’ in which airmen take turns to deliver their messages straight to camera. Further callers appear in an overgrown ‘monastery garden’, in front of a bridge, and on a beach. The last three men walk away from the camera towards the sea and wave as a voiceover says ‘cheerio... to your boys in Burma’.