JAPANESE SIGN PRELIMINARY SURRENDER AGREEMENT AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: JAPANESE SIGN PRELIMINARY SURRENDER AGREEMENT AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JIN 90
  • Other titles: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: With the unconditional Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945, Lieutenant-General Numata and other Japanese senior officers sign a preliminary surrender agreement at Rangoon, Burma, to facilitate the Allied reoccupation of South East Asia.
  • Description: Tilt down façade of Government House, Rangoon. Convoy of lorry-buses with military police escort arriving. Japanese Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata and Rear Admiral Kaigye Chudo arriving. Air Marshal Saunders arriving (commander, RAF Burma). Lieutenant-General Montagu Stopford, commander 12th Army, arriving. Stopford takes the salute of a small British guard of honour. Stopford with Major-General Feng Lee of the Chinese Army. Stopford, Lee and a French officer. A Japanese lieutenant-colonel is escorted into the conference room; a civilian man follows. Numata and delegation entering conference room. Wide shot Government House. A US Navy officer, Captain (Frederic?) S Habecker, in discussion with Major-General Denning (Principal Administrative Officer, South East Asia Command) outside Government House. Japanese delegates leaving the building during an intermission; their lorry-bus departing. Stopford departing. A bungalow apparently for the use of the Japanese officers during the conference, with an armed British guard on patrol. Interior shot, from a balcony, looking down as Japanese officers take their seats. Ground level shot as the officers stand and wait. Allied officers entering, seen from the balcony; they are named on the dopesheet as (left-to-right): Brigadier Edward J Gibbons (Chief Civil Affairs Officer, South East Asia), Captain F S Habecker, Major-General Feng Lee, Mr M E Dening (political advisor to Lord Mountbatten), Rear Admiral W A Patterson, Lieutenant-General Browning, Air Marshal Saunders, Major-General Denning, Brigadier Maunsell, Air Vice Marshal Adrian Cole (Royal Australian Air Force liaison officer to South East Asia Command), Captain J P H Perks, Group Captain Fay. Ground level shot; Browning takes his seat and the rest of the Allied officers do likewise. Shots of the two sets of officers. Numata is presented with the surrender document and signs it. He applies the seal of Field Marshal Terauchi. Browning signs the document. Close-up of Browning. Browning signing. Pan along line of Allied officers. Allied officers rising and departing. Clerks with papers (seen from above). Browning addresses Press correspondents; he emphasises some key point by beating his right index finger against the palm of his left hand.
  • 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 90
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-08-26
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) Coleman, W G St John (Captain) (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)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Numata, Takazo (person) Chudo, Kaigye (person) Browning, Frederick Arthur Montague (person) Saunders, Hugh William Lumsden (person) Denning, Reginald Francis Stewart (person) Dening, Maberly Esler (person) Maunsell, Mark Stuart Kerr (person) Cole, Adrian Lindley Trevor (person) British Army, 12th Army (regiment/service) IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: British Army 1939-1945 (theme) Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Burma, Second World War (event) Far East 1939-1945 (theme) Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme) Japanese Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 605 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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    JIN 90

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ABY 131 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 290 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES SIGN PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 291 (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 295 (JAPANESE ENVOYS DEPART AFTER SIGNING TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 296 (JAPANESE ENVOYS DEPART AFTER SIGNING TREATY AT RANGOON [Allocated Title]) JFU 298 (JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE 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])
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