Sequences showing a football match in a city park and water polo in a swimming pool. WRNS disembark from RN trucks. Sequence showing WRNS being taken on a sightseeing trip around crowded anchorage in RCL. Cut ...

General Sturdee, GOC First Australian Army, accepts the surrender of Japanese forces in the Bismarcks, Solomons and New Guinea on the flightdeck of HMS Glory off Rabaul on 6 ...

Elements of TG 111.3 arrive at Kiirun in Formosa for the evacuation of POWs. Cameraship HMS Argonaut.

HMS Bermuda heads inshore, followed by HMS Argonaut and HMS Quiberon. They ...

Blindfolded Japanese(?) prisoners on board naval vessel; Japanese survivors in the water.

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Summary: provisional summary based on cursory viewing.

Technical: this reel was originally ...

Amateur film shot by various unidentified Royal Navy officers. Canadian sailors (presumably from HMCS Prince Robert, arrived Hong Kong 30 August 1945) land on jetty at Kowloon and escort away Japanese soldiers (prior to formal surrender on 16 ...

START 00:00:00 Scenes in the central district of Hong Kong showing its Chinese inhabitants going about their daily business, with close-ups of a duck and her three ducklings, brightly-coloured wreaths on sale at a flower shop, children and street ...

START 00:10:37 Views of a community of Chinese people living on board sampans in a harbour on Hong Kong island.

00:13:09 A victory parade through Hong Kong's Central District with people marching with colourful banners, Allied flags (no British ...

Scenes filmed on 16mm Kodachrome in Hong Kong harbour after the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945.

START 00:21:09 Shots from the cameraman's vessel as it passes the port side of HMS Colossus, a 13,000-ton Royal ...

START 00:23:56 Scenes filmed from a vantage point showing Chinese marchers celebrating the end of the war and victory over Japan as they parade through the centre of Hong Kong behind a large portrait of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang-Kai-Shek, ...

Colour film shot by official naval cameraman of the formal Japanese surrender in the gardens of Government House, Hong Kong on 16 September 1945, celebratory gun salute by HMS Swiftsure and coverage of some of ...

I. LS-MS broad on the port quarter of HIJMS Hatsuzakura. Cameraship is underway in line ahead with USS Missouri and USS Iowa off the Japanese coast - aircraft circle overhead. HMS Whelp (D.33) closes, and a ...

Recovery of Allied prisoners from Camp No 2, Tokyo area, and their transfer to the hospital ship USS Benevolence, Shinagawa Wan, for screening and treatment. Most of the prisoners ...

Mute unedited footage showing the return of HMS Nelson from the Far East.

MS and MCU shots of HMS Nelson entering port. Nelson alongside the Southern Railway Jetty, Portsmouth - ratings wave from the ship's side. ...

Amphibious landings on the banks of the Rangoon River and advance on the city.

Cameraman in one of a flotilla of LCAs proceeding in line ahead up the Rangoon River - the line ...

I. Reel One. Camera craft approaches Azuma in company with other LCVPs - the helmsman and gunners are American. LCVPs PD-703 and 704 run ashore, and RN landing party disembarks. Japanese soldiers emerge ...

I. HA.MS onto focsle decks of two destroyers running abreast on portside of cameraship HMS King George V - the nearer destroyer has the more modern dual-purpose main armament. Ratings heave on a line to bring ...

Film sequences not in chronological order. CUs of lattice mast of a Ruler Class escort carrier (either HMS Hunter or HMS Attacker) flying the Dutch, French, US and White Ensigns, and a 'V for Victory' flag. MS ...

I. 'Sydney'. Governor General, Duke of Gloucester, takes the salute at a march past in support of the Third Victory Loan - participants in the parade include Royal Navy, Australian army and RAAF, VADs and WRNS.

II. 'War Bond Hats'. ...

I. A walk around Diyatalawa camp extension in Ceylon. Scenes include Craighton Village, waterfalls at Nuwara Eliya, Adams Peak and tea plantations. This material is duplicated with some additional scenes under ...

Reel 1: Model of India, filmed at low angle with crawl of text; RAF Film Production Unit presents Life in Air Command South East Asia. The map flips upright, so the camera is looking directly down on it, and commentary explains the basic geography of ...

START 10:00:00 A Royal East African Automobile association roadsign at Nankura 110 miles west of Nairobi giving directions and distances in miles to places near and far - Nairobi, Mombasa, Salisbury (now Harare), Johannesburg, Cape Town one way and ...

START 10:24:30 Scenes showing artillery training in bush country: an Observation Post (OP) from which three European officers survey the countryside, two Ordnance QF 25-pound field howitzer positions set up in the bush, two African signallers and a ...

START 10:45:20 Filmed sometime early in 1946, a train carrying men of the 11th (East African) Division returning from active service in Burma pulls into Nairobi railway station. A band belonging to the King's African Rifles plays on one of the ...

START 10:00:00 A delegation of tribal elders dressed in long white robes and wearing turbans (suggesting that they are African Moslem tribesmen) are seated in a semi-circle underneath a tree in the grounds of an educational establishment (?) ...