Film Number

5686

Title

CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 226

Producer

The Directorate of Services Kinematography for the Welfare General in India. CKS

Date

c1945

Gauge

35mm N

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

12 mins 43 secs

Description

Servicemen in the Far East send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester and elsewhere in the North West. The film opens in a garden setting as the men march along a path singing ‘Glory Glory What a Hell of a Way to Die’. They are met by an officer who tells them how the film is going to work before introducing the first caller. Other messages are delivered in relaxed settings around the grounds, before the whole group march off singing ‘Glory Glory’ again, waving and shouting out their farewells.