WELT IM FILM NO 23 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WELT IM FILM NO 23 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WIF 23
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Munich: the famous glockenspiel in the Town Hall tower working again. II. 'London fetes its heroes'. The RAF flypast (led by Douglas Bader); also film of Trafalgar Square, with V weapons on display; Attlee speaks ('Thanksgiving Week'). III. Soldiers of the US 26th Division on leave on a Danube riverboat. IV. Paris: opening of an International Women's Congress (film illustrating the wide variety of jobs taken on by women during the war: farming, manual work etc). V. Boxing match in Hamburg. VI. Return of General J M ('Skinny') Wainwright to USA, greeted in San Francisco; meets Truman in Washington. VII. Göttingen: a toy factory resumes production of model trains. VIII. Singapore. British reoccupation after preliminary surrender on HMS Sussex; releasing emaciated POWs; the formal surrender by Japanese (Itagaki, Kimura, Fukudome) to Mountbatten and Slim. IX. Hamburg. Military government reopens Trade Union headquarters, taken over by Nazis in 1933. A building worker, released from concentration camp, formally destroys Nazi insignia on building.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: WIF 23
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-10-19
  • Production Country: Allied Military Government
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Attlee, Clement Richard (person) Bader, Douglas Robert Steuart (person) Truman, Harry S (person) Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew (person) Fukudome, Shigeru (person) Itagaki, Seishiro (person) Kimura, Heitaro (person) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) Slim, William Joseph (person) United States Army & Div 26 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, United States military - leave (object name) ships, German civilian - inland: riverboat (object name) celebrations, British - event-related: victory thanksgiving (object name) ceremonies, British - display: flypast (object name) buildings, German - historic: Munich Town Hall and glockenspiel (object name) administration, international - civilian: International Women's Congress (object name) economics, British national - employment: women war workers (object name) recreation, German civilian - sport: boxing (object name) celebrations, United States - event-related: return of General Wainwright (object name) administration, British - occupation: Singapore (object name) prisoners of war, Japanese - surrender (object name) prisoners of war, Singaporean - repatriation (?) (object name) administration, Allied - occupation: Germany (object name) reconstruction, German: reopening of Trade Union headquarters (object name) industry, German - general: model trains (object name) International Women's Congress, 1945 (event) Germany & Göttingen (geography) Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Germany & Munich, Bavaria (geography) GB, England & London <Trafalgar Square> (geography) Germany & Danube (River) (geography) Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg (geography) San Francisco, California, United States of America (geography) Washington D.C. (geography) Germany & Hamburg, Hamburg (geography) (concept)
  • 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: 1958 ft; Running time: 22 mins
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