Title:KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYA: SURRENDER OF SWORDS BY GENERAL ITAGAKI AND STAFF [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 528
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At HQ Malaya Command in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (Malaysia), Japanese General Itagaki and his senior officers surrender their swords to Lieutenant-General Frank Messervy.
Description: Medium close-up of an unnamed British major-general with troops on parade in the background. Different angle showing the officer and the backs of two men he is speaking to, one of whom is a civilian. Medium close-up of an unnamed civilian man. Shot along a line of parked staff cars; camera pans to a building with a number of parked jeeps, one of which is marked 'CRIASC' or 'Commander Royal Indian Army Service Corps'. A staff car arrives; there is a Royal Air Force Air Commodore in the front seat and a civilian man gets out of the back. Escorted Japanese officers, led by General Itagaki, arrive at HQ Malaya Command. Each carries a sword. Medium close-up of Itagaki and Lieutenant-General Ayabe (his chief of staff). Lieutenant-General Messervy receives Itagaki's sword and salutes him. In front of Messervy is a table spread with a British Union flag and military policemen stand guard. Ayabe surrenders his sword (camera now side-on, with the table in centre of shot) to Brigadier C P Jones, Brigadier General Staff. Wide shot showing the line of now swordless Japanese officers. They are marched away; a crowd of spectators can be seen behind.
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)
Clark, Paul Stuart1926-07-24 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Itagaki, Seishiro (person)
Messervy, Frank Walter (person)
Jones, Charles Phibbs (person)
Ayabe, Kitsuju (person)
Keywords: Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (geography)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
