WELT IM FILM NO 23
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: WIF 23).
Synopsis
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. Gttingen: 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.
Titles
- WELT IM FILM NO 23
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1945
- Running Time:
- 22 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Sound
- Footage:
- 1958 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- Allied Military Government