ROYAL NAVY TAKES OVER IN SAIGON [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL NAVY TAKES OVER IN SAIGON [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JIN 129
  • Other titles: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: As part of the British occupation of French Indo-China (Vietnam), the Royal Navy frigate HMS Waveney arrives in Saigon.
  • Description: Shots from a small vessel, with a Japanese crew and British officers onboard, showing the frigate HMS Waveney navigating the Saigon River. Two Allied (one British?) officers and a Japanese seaman at the salute as Waveney passes with its crew manning the rails. Close-up Japanese sailor speaking into a voice pipe. Views from the launch with Waveney behind. Looking astern with Waveney behind and a White Ensign flying foreground. Two Japanese seaman in animated discussion with a White Ensign flying behind them. The launch passes a sunken merchant ship whose bow is sticking up in the air. Berthing at Saigon; photographers and naval officers wait on the jetty. Waveney approaches. Three British officers on the jetty; they are named on the dopesheet as Commander Vereker, Commander Anderson (Allied Commission) and Brigadier Maunsell, chief of staff to Major-General Gracey. A number of Gurkhas wearing the insignia of 20th Indian Division are present. A Japanese sailor casts a mooring line to a French sailor (?) on the dockside. Japanese guard of honour; Waveney berths in the background. Japanese officers with an interpreter with officers on Waveney’s bridge in the background. Sailors manning the rail aboard Waveney. Two naval officers, one of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and thickly bearded, the other of the Royal Navy and clean shaven. Captain T I Scott-Bell comes down Waveney’s gangway and is piped ashore. Scott-Bell meets Maunsell and other officers (including French?). Japanese officer; the guard of honour at the present arms in the background. Japanese officers salute Scott-Bell. Scott-Bell speaks with the senior Japanese officer via a civilian interpreter. The Japanese guard of honour presents arms to Scott-Bell; nearest camera is the (presumed) commander of the guard who salutes with his sword. Scott-Bell inspects the guard; he appears to ask the Japanese commander about some detail of one soldier’s uniform. The Japanese guard slopes their rifles and marches off with a high step.
  • 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 129
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-09-30 1945-10-02
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) 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: Maunsell, Mark Stuart Kerr (person) Scott-Bell, Thomas Ian (person) Royal Navy, HMS WAVENEY, frigate (1942) (regiment/service) Imperial Japanese Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Saigon, French Indo-China (geography) Allied Occupation of French Indo-China, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event) Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 347 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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    JIN 129

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JIN 130 (KUKRI PRESENTATION AT SAIGON DOCKS [Allocated Title]) SE 5172 (THE ALLIED REOCCUPATION OF FRENCH INDO-CHINA, 1945) SE 5174 (THE ALLIED REOCCUPATION OF FRENCH INDO-CHINA, 1945) SE 5175 (THE ALLIED REOCCUPATION OF FRENCH INDO-CHINA, 1945)
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