Film Number

622

Title

CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 199

Producer

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

Date

1944

Gauge

35mm N

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

14 mins 48 secs

Description

Men from the 11th East African Division serving in the Far East (’fresh from their victories in the Kabaw Valley’) send personal messages home to their loved ones in the North West of England. The film opens in a clearing where the African men of the Regiment are moving timber. An ‘argument’ ensues before the first caller ‘notices’ the camera and delivers his message. Further messages are sent from a makeshift badminton court and a village setting. The film ends with the African men of the Regiment performing an ngoma dance.