WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 213 [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 213 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: WPN 213
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  • Summary: An edition of the British official newsreel "War Pictorial News", produced by the Ministry of Information, Middle East.
  • Description: I. 'FOOD TO HOLLAND.' Crates of United States (US) Menu- No.1 C rations destined for famine relief operations in Holland are loaded into the bomb bay of a United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomber aircraft. Aerial footage shows USAAF B-17 aircraft operating over Holland performing a low-level parachute supply drop over areas of sound ground, unaffected by the extensive areas of flooding. A B-17 drops supplies with its undercarriage lowered to reduce its forward air speed over the dropping zone. A supply drop is made over Schipol Airfield. II. 'GERMANY 1945- UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.' United States (US) infantry walk past damaged trams in a Munich street. A US military policeman stands guard outside the Bürger Bräu Keller in Munich. US infantry carrying M1 Garand .30-inch self-loading rifles and M1 .30-inch carbines walk into the Feldherrnhalle (Ehrenmal) to view the graves of the sixteen Nazi "martyrs" who died in the Putsch of November 9 1923. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder views ruins in Berlin, including the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, the City Palace, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag. Tedder later arrives at the Army School to take part in the surrender ceremony (second). Internal footage shows the Allied and German delegates at the signing table these include: Tedder, Marshal Georgi K Zhukov, General Carl Spaatz, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, Generaloberst PF Stumpf and Admiral Hans G von Friedeburg. Back in London, thousands of civilians throng the area around the Queen Victoria Memorial and the gates of Buckingham Palace. King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to the delight of the gathered crowds. Crowd scenes at Trafalgar Square follow. The Royal family are joined by Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Civilian crowds celebrate victory and peace by dancing the Conga at night near Nelson's Column. St Paul's Cathedral is illuminated by searchlights.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: WPN 213
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-06-04
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information, Middle East (Production sponsor) War Pictorial News (Production company) Martin, Charles (Production individual) O'Malley, Patrick (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Tedder, Arthur William (person) Keitel, Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav (person) Friedeburg, Hans G von (person) Stumpff, Hans-Jürgen (person) Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich (person) Spaatz, Carl Andrew (person) Lattre de Tassigny, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de (person) Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) Bevin, Ernest (person) Elizabeth II, Queen (person) Margaret, Princess (person) George VI, King (person)
  • Keywords: supplies, United States, movement [RA] - food (object name) operations, United States air - relief (object name) destruction, Dutch military - area (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) celebrations, British - event-related: VE Day (object name) Second World War, British Home Front & VE Day & 8/5/1945 (event) Second World War, German Home Front & German Surrender & 8/5/1945 (event) Netherlands & Amsterdam, NH <Schipol airport> (geography) Germany & Munich, Bavaria <Bürgerbräu Keller> (geography) Germany & Munich, Bavaria <Ehrentempel> (geography) Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Military School> (geography) GB, England & London, SW <Buckingham Palace> (geography) GB, England & London, EC <Saint Paul's Cathedral> (geography) GB, England & London, WC <Trafalgar Square> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: Arabic
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 931 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    WPN 213

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    UNY 156 (UNITED NEWS [Series Title])
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