WORLD PICTORIAL NEWS NO 235 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WORLD PICTORIAL NEWS NO 235 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WPN 235
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  • Summary: The Far East - The Aftermath.
  • Description: I. 'THE FAR EAST- THE AFTERMATH.' Hundreds of Imperial Japanese Army officers surrender their swords in Malaya. Large numbers of Japanese Army personnel stand in a prison enclosure. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war march past gathered Malay civilians. 'HAINAN.' Emaciated Allied prisoners of war stand in a prison camp compound at Hainan. Interior footage shows emaciated and ill Allied prisoners lying on camp beds. Sick prisoners are carried on stretchers by Japanese soldiers. 'SINGAPORE.' Former Japanese prison camp guards dismantle the main barbed wire barricades at the entrance of their camp (location undisclosed). Allied prisoners of war smile at the camera from behind the wire fence of the prison compound. Former Allied prisoners scramble in a good humoured way for a packet of cigarettes that has been thrown to them. A column of very emaciated bare chested Allied prisoners walks past the camera position, their appearance bearing stark testimony to their harsh treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors. Thousands of civilians throng the streets carrying Chinese Nationalist flags. A British Union flag flies over the offices of The Straits Times newspaper. A Japanese occupation flyer reading "Victory for Nippon Assured" is removed from a wall and replaced with a Straits Times flyer which reads "Jap Surrender- Allies Enter Singapore." A newspaper boy distributes the first copies of the Straits Times printed since the Japanese surrender. Bare chested Japanese prisoners of war fill trenches on a Singapore street. Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Edwina Mountbatten on a tour of the various internment camps talk to former inmates. II. 'SOUTHAMPTON.' A merchant ship carrying former British prisoners of war from the Far East arrives at Southampton Docks. The ship is manoeuvred into a berthing position by a tug. Large numbers of British servicemen crowd the upper decks of the Merchant ship, later disembarking to cheers from a gathered civilian crowd. Members of the St John Ambulance Brigade distribute packs of cigarettes and small food parcels to the disembarking men. III. 'LIVERPOOL.' A merchant ship carrying repatriated Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel arrives in the Mersey Docks. Civilians crowds throng the quaysides as the airmen disembark. Happy scenes follow as some of the RAF men are met by waiting loved ones. The item concludes with a return to street celebrations in Singapore. Members of the Singapore Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association carry banners celebrating the Allied victory over the Japanese during a large victory parade.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: WPN 235
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-11-05
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information, Middle East (Production sponsor) World Pictorial News (Production company) Martin, Charles (Production individual) Redway, John (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person)
  • Keywords: prisoners of war, Japanese - custody (object name) prisoners of war, Japanese - surrender (object name) prisoners of war, Allied - custody (object name) prisoners of war, British - repatriation (object name) prisoners of war, Japanese - labour (object name) celebrations, Malayan - liberation (object name) celebrations, Malayan - event-related: Allied victory (object name) Malaya & Singapore (geography) Singapore (geography) China & Hainan Island <prison camp> (geography) Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK (geography) Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: Arabic
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 832 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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