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Surrender of Japanese Imperial forces aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo, Japan.

Surrender of Japanese Imperial forces leads to end of World War II. American planes approach Atsugi Air Base in Japan. Wrecked Japanese planes on airfield. Japanese labor works on airfield. C-54 aircraft lands in Atsugi. General Douglas MacArthur disembarks the plane. USS Missouri in Tokyo bay. Surrender ceremonies aboard USS Missouri. Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamoru Shegemitsu (with cane), General Yoshijiro Umezu, Major General Yatsuji Nagai, Katsuo Okazaki, Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka, Toshikazu Kase, and Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi on deck of USS Missouri. Cameramen record event. General MacArthur speaks on mike. American officers surround General MacArthur. Surrender Instrument on table. Eleven men Japanese Delegation move ahead to sign the Surrender Instrument. Mamoru Shegemitsu signs Surrender Instrument. General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General Sir Arthur E Percival of British Army step forward with General MacArthur to sign Surrender Instrument. Map shows surrender locations like China, Manchuria, South West Pacific, Central Pacific, Japan, South Korea and Philippines.

Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052560
Film describing social character of United States in decade leading up to World War II

Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053398
U.S. propaganda film depicts Japanese people and culture, and describes early diplomacy efforts with Japan (WW2)

A United States World War II propaganda film depicts Japanese psychology and living habits. Japanese mythology explains the origin of the Imperial Family. Japanese people celebrate the 2600th anniversary of mythological founding of Japan in 1940. Men, women, and children parade with Japanese flags. A man wearing Sendaihira hakama formal wear leads crowd chanting. A huge crowd gathers for the celebration. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull visits Japan. Secretary Hull arrives in a conference to discuss about peace in the Pacific Theater. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks about the diplomatic efforts to maintain peace in the Pacific Theater. President Roosevelt seated on a ship with General Douglas MacArthur on one side and Admiral Chester Nimitz on the other. Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburō Nomura hands a document to Ambassador Hull after the attack on the Pearl Harbor had begun one hour earlier (unbeknownst to the meeting attendees). The document states the Japanese Government's wish to continue negotiations for peace. Scenic views in Japan. Japanese people on bridge in a scenic garden. A Japanese man carries his son on his back. Japanese women wearing kimonos hold parasols. A woman tucks her child to sleep. Japanese soldiers in China committing atrocities against Chinese civilians. Shovel scoops up soil to bury dead Chinese civilians. Two men shot at point blank range. Bodies of slain Chinese children seen following attacks. Japanese general disembarks from a plane and salutes. “We must know them as they are.” the narrator reminds audience.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054169
Montage of scenes reflecting worldwide civil unrest at end of World War I following armistice.

Russian Cossacks on horseback. Mounted Soviet cavalry officers ride past marching troops. More Cossacks on horseback. Scene changes to a protest gathering and parade in Britain. Crowd involved in civil unrest demonstrating in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and demonstration somewhere in China during the May Fourth movement, with a mass of Chinese people in the streets. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier putting down unrest in streets. Germans raising Imperial German flag at park on Unter Den Linden in Berlin, Germany. More scenes of unrest in European streets.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054353
Views of fine shops on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, United States.

Street sign shows 5th Avenue and East 51st Street, in Manhattan, New York City. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk on the Fifth Avenue. Double-decker bus of 5th Avenue Coach Company on the street. Fashionable shops shown include Best & Co.and Black, Starr & Gorham. Mannequins dressed fashionably. Silver and china and fine glass articles on display in shops. A woman stands and looks at several items on display. A man and boy look at model sail boats in shop window. Flowers in a flower shop. Cars move along the street.

Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054428
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru receives Chinese Minister Zhou Enlai in India.

People’s Republic of China Minister Zhou Enlai visits New Delhi, India. He is received by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Safdarjung Airport. Chinese Minister Zhou Enlai disembarks from an aircraft. He laughs and talks with other men. Cameramen take photographs of Chinese Minister Zhou Enlai and Prime Minister Nehru. Indian citizens demonstrate against Communist Chinese brutality in Tibet and frontier dispute. The crowd carries banners. The banners read 'Pandit Nehru, stand firm' and 'Beware of Chinese Imperialism'.

Date: 1960, September 21
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054565