EXECUTION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AT CHANGI JAIL SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: EXECUTION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AT CHANGI JAIL SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 537
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Footage shot with live sound at Changi Jail, Singapore, showing three convicted Japanese war criminals being hanged.
  • Description: Three shots, all taken from a high point overlooking the gallows in the courtyard of Changi jail, as each prisoner is led out and hanged in the following order: Lieutenant Nakamura, Sergeant-Major Iijima (Eishima on the dopesheet) and Captain Komai. The live sound captures the sound of a bell tolling the hour (9:00am) and some indecipherable conversation between members of the execution party, with some laughter, footsteps as the condemned are led to the gallows, and the crash of the trapdoor opening.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: JFU 537
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1946-03-14
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Wilcox (Sergeant) (Production individual) Sutton, Leonard Edwin Charles1923Family origin: Thornton Heath, London, GB (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: South East Asia Command (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Changi, 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: Sound
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 413 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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    JFU 537

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    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 454 (JAPANESE PRISONERS BEFORE OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS [Allocated Title]) JFU 455 (OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS [Allocated Title]) JFU 469 (OPENING OF SINGAPORE WAR CRIMES TRIALS - TRIAL OF GOZAWA SADAICHI [Allocated Title]) 4292 () 8299 () ABY 195 (OPENING OF WAR CRIMES TRIALS, SINGAPORE [Allocated Title])
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