Film Number

546

Title

CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 132

Producer

Services Film Centre, India for The Directorate of Welfare and Amenities

Date

1944

Gauge

35mm N

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

8 mins 31 secs

Description

Men from the Royal Artillery are filmed together in a jungle clearing in Burma (now Myanmar). Each man takes a turn to step forward to the camera to send a personal message home to loved ones in and around Manchester before they all sign off with a verse of ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’.