Description: I."Build new Philippines! Fight for greater East Asia! Air attacks over Hawaii!" Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Commentary announces that Nippon declared war on the USA and Great Britain on 8 December 1941; map of Pacific region. Kaga and another carrier in heavy seas prior to attack on Pearl Harbor. Commander of Imperial Air Squadron, in front of blackboard, delivers an address to pilots, "war heroes determined to respond to their country's call beyond life and death". Nakajima B5N2s and Aichi D3A1s stand ready to take off "carrying a load of many bombs with the smoothness of a seagull!" to the soundtrack accompaniment of "Also Sprach Zarathustra". Caption announces "US Pacific Fleet annihilated" and gives alleged losses inflicted, over aerial film of attack over airfield and blazing houses. Japanese destroyers in line astern end item which states that Nippon now commands the vast waters of the Pacific.
II. "Fall of Hong Kong." Map of Hong Kong. Commentary announces that Nippon is laying down the gauntlet and in accordance with Bushido demands surrender from the British. Artillery (37mm anti-tank gun Type 94, British QF 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun, 150mm howitzer Type 4) opens fire and a Katori Class light cruiser bombards the shore. Kawasaki Ki-32 light bombers attack oil tanks "stored for the invasion of East Asia". Aerial shot of (British) vessel taking evasive action. Oil tanks blaze after attacks from "Nippon's wire eagles". Ground troops advance with fixed bayonets and climb up a Babcock and Wilcox crane. Enemy pillboxes reportedly crumble like paper. "Hong Kong completely occupied - December 25 1941." Soldiers raise their rifles in a Banzai salute after the British surrender, illustrated by large piles of captured equipment including a Bren carrier, medium artillery and machine guns. Unshaven RN sailors sit in captivity, one with a pet monkey. British staff officers who negotiated terms of surrender shake hands with Japanese officers. Japanese flag is raised and now flies over the New Oriental Building. Victory ceremony includes flyover and parade by mounted troops through streets of Hong Kong led by Lieutenant-General Takashi Sakai and Vice-Admiral Masaichi Niimi.
Production Details: Nippon Eigasha (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Niimi, Masaichi (Vice-Admiral) (person)
Sakai, Takashi (person)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, Imperial Air Sqdn (regiment/service)
Imperial Japanese Navy & Kaga (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, Japanese - combat: Aichi D3A1 (object name)
aircraft, Japanese - combat: Nakajima B5N2 (object name)
arts, German - music: Strauss, Richard & Also Sprach Zarathustra (object name)
combat, Japanese - air strike (object name)
intelligence, military, Japanese - briefing (object name)
propaganda, Japanese - inspirational (object name)
ships, Japanese naval - aircraft carrier, fleet: Kaga (object name)
aircraft, Japanese - combat: Kawasaki Ki-32 (object name)
animals, mammals: monkey (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Bren & [captured] (object name)
ceremonies, Japanese - event-related: victory parade (object name)
combat, Japanese - air strike (object name)
combat, Japanese - air strike anti-ship (object name)
equipment, British military - engineering: crane (object name)
operations, Japanese military - sortie (object name)
prisoners of war, British - surrender (object name)
propaganda, Japanese - inspirational (object name)
ships, Japanese naval - cruiser: Katori Class (object name)
spoils, Japanese (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AA]: 3.7 inch QF (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AT]: 3.7mm Type 94 (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 150mm Type 4 howitzer (object name)
12/5(265).11 (event)
01/5(512.317).481 (event)
USA & Pearl Harbor, HA (geography)
Hong Kong <New Oriental Building> (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 600 ft (ca); Running time: 7 mins (ca)
