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