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"181st General Hospital - C.B.I."
WWII Home Movies ~ 1943-1944

Color and b&w home movies filmed during WWII in the China/Burma/India Theater. The cameraman was a dentist at the 181st General Hospital near Karachi.

In this mix of rare color and b&w footage you'll see shots of the hospital complex, the dental clinic, laboratory, and chapel. There are a lot of shots of the cameraman's fellow doctors and nurses, and occassionally you'll see a convalescing soldier wearing a black bathrobe.
You'll visit a "War Services Exhibition" where you'll see an Indian Military marching band, soldiers with swords, and a military display of tanks, armored cars and soldiers crossing a field filled with smoke.
In the city you'll see double-decker buses and military vehicles, attend a horse race, watch a mongoose battle a cobra, and visit South Delhi Public High School, where the students are doing exercises in the yard.
At the Kaivalyadhama Yogic Health Center in Lonavala you'll see a man milk a cobra, a yogi who drinks a jug full of water and then regurgitates it all out again, and a man who does a strange stomach rolling/revolving performance.
There's a Christmas pageant at the hospital, starring kids in Santa costumes and Polish refugee children who do some Polish dances, and later you'll see lengthy footage of a Circus that visited the 181st, with elephants, lions & tigers, acrobats and knife-throwing clowns.
Also included in the film:
~Gateway of India - Bombay
~Short train ride through countryside
~Group of uniformed men visiting ancient ruins
~An Indian couple's wedding
~Taj Mahal covered with protective wood scaffolding
...and much more!

The DVD has a soundtrack of WWII era radio shows.
Running Time: 1 hr, 15 min

PRICE: $24.00

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Click Below to watch some clips from "181st Gen. Hospital" -- Please note that this YouTube video is silent, and because of the transfer process is of a lower quality than the actual DVD.

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