JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
- Title: JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: JFU 291
- Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: Japanese envoys sign a preliminary agreement at Government House, Rangoon, Burma.
- Description: Interior footage shot from a high point looking down over the hall of Government House. The Japanese emissaries' escort enter the hall followed by the emissaries themselves. They stand behind their chairs. The Allied delegation file in followed by Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, the Chief of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command. The assembled officers take their seats. The agreement is signed and transferred from one table to another. The Japanese officers stand up, bow, and leave the hall. Close-up of the agreement with the phoenix insignia of the Supreme Allied Commander visible along with the signature and seal of Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata, Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Count Terauchi.
- 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 291
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1945-08-28
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Watson, W (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Browning, Frederick Arthur Montague (person) Numata, Takazo (person) Chudo, Kaigye (person)
- Keywords: Burma 1942-1945 (theme) Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Burma, Second World War (event) 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: 227 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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Related IWM Collections Objects:
JFU 290 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 293 (JAPANESE ENVOYS SIGN TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 294 (JAPANESE ENVOYS SIGN TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 296 (JAPANESE ENVOYS DEPART AFTER SIGNING TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 295 (JAPANESE ENVOYS DEPART AFTER SIGNING TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 299 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 300 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 301 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 302 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 303 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 304 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 298 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) ABY 131 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) ABY 133 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON SIGN INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER [Allocated Title]) JIN 89 (ARRIVAL OF JAPANESE SURRENDER DELEGATION AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JIN 90 (JAPANESE SIGN PRELIMINARY SURRENDER AGREEMENT AT RANGOON [Allocated Title])