JAPANESE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: JAPANESE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JIN 111
  • Other titles: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: An edited record of the formal surrender ceremony in Singapore for the surrender of Japanese personnel in South East Asia, shot by cameramen of the Indian Inter-Service Public Relations Film Unit.
  • Description: At the Singapore Municipal Building military police motorcyclists pass camera before Mountbatten’s limousine arrives. A view from the building’s steps looking down on Mountbatten’s car arriving (lower right corner of the frame is obscured). Mountbatten gets out of the car, cut to street level with waiting senior officers. Unit of Royal Navy sailors presenting arms. Cut to an Indian officer (probably of 1st Battalion 17th Dogra Regiment) at the salute with his men presenting arms behind. High shot Mountbatten taking the salute. The Indian soldiers slope arms. Mountbatten speaks to an Indian soldier with Dogra shoulder title and patch of 5th Indian Division. Low-angle close-up of Indian soldier with medal ribbons. Flypast by three RAF Mosquitoes. Mountbatten and others inspecting Australian troops. Inspecting British troops wearing 5th Indian Division insignia. Mountbatten returns to the group of senior officers at the roadside. View from inside the building as Mountbatten and others come up the steps. View from outside of Mountbatten going inside. Street level; party of Japanese officers, led by Seishiro Itagaki, are escorted to the building. They go inside. Inside the hall, looking along the table of Allied delegates; Mountbatten speaking. Japanese officers listening. Three Allied officers; Major-General Penney, Brigadier Thimayya, Lieutenant-General Leclerc. Itagaki applies a large ink seal to the surrender document, followed by a smaller one. Closer shot; he signs the document. Mountbatten signing. Itagaki signing. Mountbatten speaking. The Japanese officers depart. Allied delegates talking amongst themselves; Mountbatten hands the paper to Lieutenant-General Browning, and beyond Mountbatten Lieutenant-General Slim, Air Chief Marshal Park and the Chinese Major-General Feng Yee can be seen. Mountbatten on the steps of the Municipal Building addressing the crowd and troops. Coming down the steps after the speech. Mountbatten and officers return to the padang. A bandmaster conducts the band (to play God Save the King?). Indian troops presenting arms as the Union flag is raised up a flagpole. Wide shot of troops presenting arms; pan to Mountbatten saluting. Long lens shot to close; Union flag flying.
  • Alternative Title: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: JIN 111
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-09-12
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) Honawar, P H (Production individual) Hewitson, Joseph Walford19202010-12-10Army cameraman, served in India and Burma with Indian Army Public Relations Film Unit, later worked with National Film Board of Canada. (Production individual) Khan, Mohammed Afzal (Production individual) Worth, Frank (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) Slim, William Joseph (person) Park, Keith Rodney (person) Browning, Frederick Arthur Montague (person) Leclerc, Philippe (person) Penney, William Ronald Campbell (person) Thimayya, Kodendera Subayya (person) Itagaki, Seishiro (person) Indian Army, 17th Dogra Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service) Indian Army, 5th Indian Division (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Singapore (geography) Liberation of Singapore Island 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event) Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme) Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Singapore, Second World War (event)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 351 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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    JIN 111

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 309 (JAPANESE SURRENDER IN SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]) ABY 143 (JAPANESE SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]) ADM 1231 (MOUNTBATTEN ACCEPTS THE SURRENDER OF JAPANESE FORCES IN SOUTH EAST ASIA [Allocated Title])
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