Title:JAPANESE TROOPS DISMANTLE THEIR OWN GUNS IN HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 484
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Following the Allied reoccupation, engineers of the Japanese army and navy dismantle an anti-aircraft gun at Hong Kong.
Description: Japanese engineers (some have anchors on their soft caps and so are presumably sailors) rigging up a pulley on a triangular frame; tilt down to watching British soldiers of No.1 Army Commando. Close-up of a Japanese soldier. The gun is lifted off its mounting with a chain and pulley. Sergeant McCudden, of No.1 Commando but wearing the cap badge of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, keeps watch armed with a Thompson submachine gun. Close-up of McCudden. Laying blocks to make a path on which to wheel away the gun. View of the gun; tilt down to men working on the path. The gun is hauled away from its mounting; pan to men hauling on ropes. Men hauling on ropes with close-ups. Close-ups of a Japanese naval officer and an army officer. View of the city with gun barrel in foreground. Japanese troops digging up the gun pit. The gun's breach and compensator are hauled away on a trolley.
Attached media - JFU 483, JFU 494 and JFU 485
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: British Army, No.1 Commando (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
Imperial Japanese Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: Hong Kong (geography)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Hong Kong, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
