OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 455
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Footage from the opening of the Singapore War Crimes Trials.
  • Description: Interior footage of the courtroom; man speaking (prosecution counsel?). Looking down on a man writing. Accused Japanese soldiers in the dock bowing. Officer speaking. President of the court speaking. Journalists conferring. Close-ups of the accused. Courtroom. Tilt up along a counsel bench. Accused entering the dock wearing numbered boards around their necks. Courtroom. President and panel entering. President addressing the court. Men taking notes. President of the court being sworn in. Accused in the dock. Member of the panel takes a small book (a bible?) from a clerk or attendant. Prosecutor making his opening address. Accused in the dock pleading not guilty. Various views of the court. Attached media - films JFU 454 and JFU 455
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: JFU 455
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1946-01-21
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Govan, Harold WilliamBritish Army sergeant-cameraman with South East Asia Command Film Unit (British) and No.9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, formerly Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), service number 7662913, BEM in London Gazette 37576 published 21 May 1946, pg 2. (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Singapore (geography) Singapore War Crimes Trials, War Crimes Trials (event) India 1939-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 548 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    JFU 455

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 454 (JAPANESE PRISONERS BEFORE OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS [Allocated Title]) JFU 469 (OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS - TRIAL OF GOZAWA SADAICHI [Allocated Title]) JFU 535 (EXECUTION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AT CHANGI JAIL SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]) JFU 536 (EXECUTION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AT CHANGI JAIL SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]) JFU 537 (EXECUTION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AT CHANGI JAIL SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]) Documents.5834 (System.Xml.XmlElement)
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