I. 'BRUSSELS.' Elements of the Guards Armoured Division (British XXX Corps) march through the streets of Brussels as civilian spectators look on from the windows of surrounding buildings. A Guards Armoured Division pipe band makes its way towards the ...
I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are driven in an open carriage to St Paul's Cathedral for a day of national thanksgiving for victory over Japan. On the boundaries of the City of London, ...
I. 'MIDDLE EAST NEWS.' Air Marshal Sir Charles E H Medhurst (Commander Middle East Command) attends a drum-head service held in Alexandria in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Air Marshal Medhurst takes the salute at a ...
I. "The other man's job. Stormboats for war in Pacific." Scenes of the manufacture of stormboats, flat-bottomed craft specially designed for landing small groups of men and equipment on beaches in the Pacific. Ash logs arrive at a sawmill where they ...
I. "The other man's job. Filling ten ton Tess." Workers pack solid and liquid explosive into a 22,000 lb bomb then inscribe facetious remarks ("Tickler for Hitler," "One for Adolf") on the casing before it leaves the factory by truck. Film of large ...
I. "The other man's job. Gears for everything." Production of gears, showing casting and testing of gear wheels and assembly of gear units.
II. "World War over. Japan surrenders." Japan's bid for world domination was ended by the dropping of ...
I. "The other man's job. It's cooler inside!" Manufacture of compressor units for use in refrigerators, refrigerated containers and air conditioning. Refrigeration kept food fresh and men healthy during the war. Item promises cheaper and better ...
At Thitseingyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, British troops fire mortars in support of a patrol, and others keep watch over the river.
Man ...
Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to dig a waterhole on the road to Rangoon ...
I. Berlin: meeting of Allied Control Commission. Arrival (inspection of Guard of Honour etc) of Zhukov, Eisenhower, Koenig and Montgomery; optimistic commentary.
II. Return of art treasures to the Louvre: wartime storage ...
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 (' ...
I. De Gaulle tours French-occupied zone of Germany, visiting Saarbrcken, Mainz etc, viewing remains of Westwall, and returning by launch across Rhine.
II. Report from Japan. a. Nagasaki A-bomb explosion. b. Hiroshima and ...
