JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
- Title: JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: JFU 290
- Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: Japanese envoys sign a preliminary treaty at Government House, Rangoon, Burma.
- Description: Interior footage with live sound in the hall at Government House. Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, Chief of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, addresses the Japanese envoys and explains the nature of this preliminary arrangement. The agreement is placed before Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata, Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Count Terauchi, Supreme Commander Japanese Expeditionary Forces Southern Region. Terauchi's Deputy Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Kaigye Chudo, watches as Numata signs the various copies of the agreement and stamps his personal seal on them. A third Japanese officer looks straight ahead. The papers are transferred to Browning's desk for his signature. Panning shots along the table showing the various Allied delegates representing Britain, Australia, the USA, China, France, and the Netherlands. General Browning addressing the assembled members of the press; though still recorded with live sound his words are not clear.
- Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: JFU 290
- Sound: Sound
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1945-08-28
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Girling, F P (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Browning, Frederick Arthur Montague (person) Numata, Takazo (person) Chudo, Kaigye (person)
- Keywords: Burma 1942-1945 (theme) Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Burma, Second World War (event) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 787 ft; Running time: 9 mins
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Related IWM Collections Objects:
JFU 291 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 293 (JAPANESE ENVOYS SIGN TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 294 (JAPANESE ENVOYS SIGN TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 295 (JAPANESE ENVOYS DEPART AFTER SIGNING TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 296 (JAPANESE ENVOYS DEPART AFTER SIGNING TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 301 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 304 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 303 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 302 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 300 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 299 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 298 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) ABY 131 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) ABY 133 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON SIGN INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER [Allocated Title]) JIN 89 (ARRIVAL OF JAPANESE SURRENDER DELEGATION AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JIN 90 (JAPANESE SIGN PRELIMINARY SURRENDER AGREEMENT AT RANGOON [Allocated Title])