Title:ROYAL MARINES ENTERTAIN ORPHANS IN HONG KONG; ADMIRAL HARCOURT REOPENS HONG KONG LAW COURTS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 353
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Royal Marine commandos befriend Chinese children at Tai Po orphanage in the New Territories, while Admiral Harcourt reopens the courts of law in Hong Kong.
Description: Marine Wilson plays the bagpipes to a laughing audience of Chinese children sitting on the bonnet of a jeep. Sweets are handed round; one marine has a kid riding piggyback. A laughing Chinese girl; camera tilts down to show she only has one leg. Pan across a group of kids getting sweets. A marine holds out a platter of sweets and biscuits for some children; they seem shy. A group of marines carry children round the garden on their shoulders. Two marines, named as Marine McKergie and Towell on the dopesheet, hold up three small children; two of them are wearing the marines' berets. Marines let off fireworks (Very lights and thunderflashes) to entertain the children.
Admiral Harcourt's car arriving outside the law courts in Hong Kong; a guard of honour from No.1 Army Commando presents arms. Harcourt and General Frank Festing, General Officer Commanding Hong Kong, inspect the guard. Interior footage from the court totally black and unusable. Harcourt leaving after the ceremony.
Wide shot showing a crowd of Chinese children with marines in the background. A marine passes round a plate, presumably of sweets or biscuits etc.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Tulloch, John ReayJohn Reay Tulloch, 375458, sergeant (later lieutenant, commissioned 25 April 1946) cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit (SEAC Film Unit). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Harcourt, Cecil Halliday Jepson (person)
Festing, Francis Wogan (person)
Royal Navy, 42nd Royal Marine Commando (regiment/service)
British Army, No.1 Commando (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong (geography)
Demobilisation, Second World War (event)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
