Tokyo is left in rubble as Japan surrenders and Allied POWs are liberated
Title card: "SURRENDER IN TOKYO BAY" / dissolve to intertitle: "Aboard the USS Missouri off Tokyo, Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur receives the delegates of Imperial Japan for the signing of the Instrument of Surrender for World War II...?"/ Title card: "INSIDE DEFEATED JAPAN - FIRST PICTURES" / MS crumbling structures and debris-strewn ground in Tokyo / MLS-PAN RIGHT Tokyo citizens walk thru the crumbling remains of their city / VS rubble and destruction caused by US firebombs / VS firefighting machines / VS Tokyo citizens walk thru rubble-strewn streets of gutted business district, charred shells of crumbling buildings in background / MLS bridge across moat outside palace / EXT Tokyo Imperial Palace / MS Japanese man, woman, and children on outside rope line on grounds of palace, Shinto Buddhist monk behind them / MLS monk prays and laments / VS US warplanes fly overhead / MS kneeling monk picks up his belongings / EXT bldg on palace grounds / VS exteriors of Japanese POW; incl large group of liberated prisoners smiling and waving to camera / MS young POW drinks from flask handed to him, makes face / MS two POWs eat rice from bowls / MS POW eats rice from bowl, spits it out and throws bowl away, signifying he no longer has to eat this stuff now that he's free / VS freed POWs carry belongings and load into trucks to start their journeys home / MCU Japanese Lieutenant who commanded prison camp stands with arms at his side / MS prison camp commander and two of his staff bow to freed POWs as they file out of the camp / MS rear view of POWs in back of truck / MS truck drives along dirt road out of camp, others following / MCU SOT US General Jonathan Wainwright IV Allied Commander, Philippines, sits at desk and addresses camera / cutaway to clip of Wainwright surrendering Corregidor to Japan on May 6, 1942 / CU SOT Wainwright at desk addresses camera / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
1299612130
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
September 01, 1945
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:03:10:01
Location:
Tokyo, Japan
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr004627_01_04
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