Description
Object description
Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel on the unconditional surrender of Japan.
Content description
United News main titles. 'Japan Surrenders'; scenes of Japanese troops embarking for China. Destruction in Chinese towns (Shanghai?); dead bodies lie in the street with their hands bound. The Japanese representative at the League of Nations walks out. Japanese troops in action in China. Scenes from the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). At Italian flag is raised. At the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin von Ribbentrop leads the attendees in three banzai cheers. Chinese civilians fleeing their homes. Chinese troops in action. Japanese ambassadors to the United States Nomura and Kurusu. United States Navy ships burning at Pearl Harbor. American warships at sea. Naval gunfire. Landing craft heading ashore. Shots of Allied prisoners of war in Japanese hands and of General MacArthur's return to the Philippines. Aerial view of Iwo Jima. Naval bombardment and of landing craft underway. Troops running forward. Dead Japanese. Raising the flag on Iwo Jima. Close-up General Simon Buckner, later killed in action on Okinawa. Scenes of fighting on Okinawa. Wide shot; crowd of surrendered Japanese troops. Ships' anti-aircraft guns firing at attacking Japanese aircraft and strikes by Japanese kamikaze pilots. Burials at sea. A graveyard with American flag flying. At an airbase (on Okinawa?) B-29s heavy bombers prepare to mount a sortie against Japan. B-29s in flight. Aerial view fleet at sea. Close-up Admiral Halsey. A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in flight; it is marked '105' on the fuselage and 'RR' on the tail; the latter suggests the aircraft is from the carrier USS Yorktown. Aerial view Japanese city. A mid-air explosion and rising smoke (used to represent the atomic bomb). Interior Potsdam conference; delegates sit round the table. Prime Minster Clement Attlee, President Truman, and Stalin. Military parade in Moscow. Hirohito on his horse. War Secretary Henry Stimson arrives at the White House. Close-up US Secretary of State James Byrnes. Cabinet discussion. Close-up President Roosevelt and shots of Roosevelt at Yalta. Roosevelt chats with MacArthur. Close-up Chiang Kai-Shek. Admiral Chester Nimitz decorates a sailor. Close-up President Truman, speaking from the Oval Office. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Truman addresses camera; he speaks of Japan's unconditional surrender. Pressmen (and women) rush to their telephones. Crowds greet the news in Times Square. Paper falls from windows. Cheering crowds. Night scenes of the same location.
Physical description
35mm