KUANTAN, MALAYA: CHINESE DOUBLE TENTH CELEBRATION [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: KUANTAN, MALAYA: CHINESE DOUBLE TENTH CELEBRATION [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 414
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: In Kuantan, Malaya, the Chinese community celebrates the Double Tenth festival for the first time since the Japanese occupation.
  • Description: Short shot of a street in Kuantan. Chinese republican flags flying from shops. A small informal group of Chinese troops, described on the dopesheet as being of 7th Regiment (probably of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), the guerilla arm of the Malayan Communist Party), walking along a street. Wide shot of a gathering crowd with banners or standards; the head of a Chinese dragon can be seen above the crowd. A crowd watches a dragon dance, with a series of good shots of the performance. At the end of the performance the 'dragon' is seen climbing a pole. A square gazebo-like structure is carried in a procession. Crowd shots. Man beating a drum. Flags and banners in the procession. Onlookers. Chinese children. Wide shot with the 'dragon' climbing a pole. Crowd shots. Thin smoke drifts from exploding fire crackers; young children scramble in the street for something but it is not clear. Crowd walking away from camera. A number of men carrying a large banner on a wooden frame. Out of focus shot of a parade. Cymbal players (focus corrected). Men beating cymbals. A man beating a drum carried by bearers. Men playing wind instruments, probably kinds of oboe (suona?). Men playing stringed instruments, presumably of the huqin fiddle family. A group of women. Children with flowers. Wide shot of the local padang, or green space. Shot of the padang with a local man approaching camera; he appears to be carrying two braziers on a shoulder yoke. An empty grandstand. Procession arriving with people carrying flags and lanterns. Crowd shot; a large paper fish can be seen in held above the crowd in the background. A miniature pagoda (?) is carried in. Wide shots. A guard of honour of the 7th Regiment (MPAJA). Scene from the grandstand with the crowd, banners etc. A Chinese soldier of the MPAJA, ironically framing a nationalist Chinese flag behind him. Various guests of honour on the podium. Flags of the Soviet Union, China, Britain and the United States; the crowd bow their heads. Crowd shot; civilians stand next to a unit of Chinese guerillas. A man named on the dopesheet as Mr Hong Chee and identified as the secretary of the [Malayan] Communist Party. Crowd. A man identified as Mr Saw Eng Chong (his credentials are not given). Major Frederick Chapman, an officer of the Special Operations Executive's Force 136, addressing the crowd. An RAF Taylorcraft Auster observation aircraft passing overhead. Chong Chin, commander of the 7th Regiment, delivers a speech. A 'Chinese Women's leader' addressing the crowd. Crowd shot taken in fading light.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: JFU 414
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-10-10
  • 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: Chapman, Frederick Spencer (person) Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (regiment/service) Special Operations Executive, Force 136 (regiment/service) British Military Administration Malaya (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Kuantan, Pahang, Malaya (geography) Allied Occupation of Malaya, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event) British Army 1939-1945 (theme) Far East 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 492 ft; Running time: mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    JFU 414

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 413 (TRAINING THE LOCAL POLICE IN KUANTAN, MALAYA [Allocated Title])
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