Film Number

5692

Title

CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 388

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

10 mins 36 secs

Description

On leave in Malabar Hill in Bombay, servicemen send personal messages home to their loved ones in Manchester, Salford and Stockport. After an opening view of the Bombay skyline, a group of soldiers stroll along a track past the camera as an officer with a handheld microphone invites three of them to deliver their own message home. Further contributors are filmed in other parts of the leafy grounds before the group walk away from the camera and back down the track, turning to wave and say goodbye as they depart.