WELT IM FILM NO 22 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WELT IM FILM NO 22 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WIF 22
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. De Gaulle visits North America. De Gaulle in Washington (meets Truman), New York (lays wreath on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grave, tickertape parade, received by La Guardia) and Ottawa (with Mackenzie King); returns to France. II. London. Lancaster House Conference of Foreign ministers, as arranged at Potsdam: arrival of Molotov; conference scenes, with Bevin, Duff Cooper, Molotov, Byrnes. III. Hamburg: football starts up again. IV. England: military and civilian models of midget motorcycle demonstrated. V. Marseilles: demolition of remains of a bridge at harbour entrance. VI. Record crowd watch running of St Leger. VII. Morris Cowley plant produces its last Spitfire and first post war cars. VIII. Hamburg. Trial of Schmeling (?) IX. Japanese surrender on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Allied delegation assembles (MacArthur, Wainwright, Doolittle, Nimitz, Percival); arrival of Japanese (Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, General Yoshijuro Umetsu): MacArthur speaks; the surrender is signed; massive US flypast.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: WIF 22
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-10-12
  • Production Country: Allied Military Government
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person) La Guardia, Fiorello Henry (person) King, William L MacKenzie (person) Truman, Harry S (person) Bevin, Ernest (person) Byrnes, James F (person) Cooper, (Alfred) Duff (person) Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin (person) Doolittle, James Harold (person) MacArthur, Douglas (person) Nimitz, Chester William (person) Percival, Arthur Ernest (person) Shigemitsu, Mamoru (person) Umetsu, Yoshijiro (person) Wainwright (person) United States Navy, MISSOURI (USS) (regiment/service) United States Army (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Morris Cowley (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, United States - event-related: tickertape parade (object name) delegations, French international - goodwill: de Gaulle visits North America (object name) administration, international - civilian: Lancaster House Conference of Foreign Ministers (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: football (object name) transport, British civilian - 2/3 wheel: midget motorcycle (object name) engineering, civil, French: bridge demolition (object name) recreation, British civilian - sport: horse racing (object name) industry, British - aircraft: Supermarine Spitfire (object name) industry, British - vehicles: Morris Cowley (object name) law and order, German - judicial process: trial (object name) administration, Allied - occupation: Japan (object name) prisoners of war, Japanese - surrender (object name) ships, United States - : Missouri (object name) Japanese Surrender 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (geography) New York, New York, United States of America (geography) Washington D.C. (geography) GB, England & London <Lancaster House> (geography) GB, England (geography) Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (geography) GB, England & Oxon <Morris Cowley plant> (geography) Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg (geography) Japan & Tokyo Bay (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1803 ft; Running time: 20 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    WIF 22

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ADM 472 (JAPANESE SURRENDER [Main Title])
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