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Representing the life of a typical Japanese soldier and celebrating the defeat of Germany in United States.

Germany and Japan defeated in World War II. The defeat of Germany is celebrated in United States. Scenes represent the life of a typical Japanese soldier: a flag is raised to celebrate his birth; boys in uniform play war; troops sack Nanking; and in1944 he is killed to attack over harbor in America. In a dramatization, a soldier with an American machine gun is killed. Dead Americans. American soldiers honor their dead comrades covered with United States flag.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024928
Celebration of liberation from German forces, and enthusiastic welcome of Prime Minister George Papandreou and British Armored unit in Athens Greece.

Liberation of Athens Greece during World War 2: Animated map of Athens, Greece. German forces end more than 3 years of occupation by withdrawing from the capital of Athens at end of October 1944, as British Allied forces near the city. Scenes of a ceremony by German troops before leaving, and then German army forces in trucks and armored vehicles leaving the city. Celebration: Greek boys ring bells and smile on departure of German forces. British troops dock in Greece and march into Athens. They are joined by partisan greek soldiers such as those from the ELAS and EAM. Close-up view of ELAS and EAM (National Liberation Front) Greek soldiers in uniform. Workers carry boxes of water. Narrator states that half of Greeks are for victims of malaria or tuberculosis. Boxes of water displayed. Shows the return of Prime Minister George Papandreou on October 18, 1944. Large crowd welcomes and cheers the Prime Minister George Papandreou and display banners for liberating their country. Prime Minister Papandreou puts the wreath on grave of unknown soldiers. British Lt. General Ronald Scobie salutes. General Scobie and Prime Minister Papandreou honor the two unknown soldiers. British Armored unit receive enthusiastic welcome. Sign of 'The Greek People Welcome EAM', and 'Welcome Great Allies KKE'. Greek people welcome the National Liberation Front (EAM) and Communist Party of Greece (KKE). Citizens buy food with inflated currency. Inflation causes citizens to hand over large amounts of currency for small purchases like bread and basic produce.

Date: 1944, October
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024960
Dramatization of civilian life in Tokyo; actual footage of Japanese Soldiers during invasion of Manchuria.

A dramatization. Opening scene shows two newsgirls selling papers on a street corner in the Ginza district of Tokyo. One calls out to passersby (unseen). She looks up at a clock tower showing it is almost midnight. The weather is cold and the girls are trying to stay warm. Views of neon signs on business establishments in the area. Scene shifts to men and women dancing to accordian music in a night club. A couple leaving the club obtain their coats and put them on. The woman glances at a watch on her finger. Next scene shows headlights of a moving car and its horn is heard blowing several times. Then lights of several cars are seen. Scene shifts back to the newspaper girls now joined by another girl and a boy. Scene shifts to Manchuria, where a troop of Japanese cavalry are riding in formation on a dusty road. Sounds of machine gun fire are heard in background. Japanese soldiers run past rocks. Two carry a Type 11 37 mm infantry support gun. Others carry boxes of ammunition. Glimpse of soldiers setting up the 37mm gun as another uses a periscopic sight and rangefinder. Several soldiers at another location are firing light machine guns supported by bipods. Closeup of a Japanese soldier silhouetted against the sky. Scene shifts back to the four newspaper children. They all say goodnight and start to leave. One of the girls steps from the corner, and is struck by a taxicab, apparently carrying her parents who've come to take her home. The driver jumps out and carries her to the sidewalk and her parents rush to her side. Next, a collection of dolls is seen in the girl's room, where she is lying on a bed. A doctor speaks with her parents. Later, another woman and a different doctor are seen with the parents at the girl's bedside. The girl begins to speak anxiously. The parents are dismayed and her mother speaks earnestly to her and cradles her head.

Date: 1933
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025036
Assimilation of Western culture and fashions seen in Japanese cities

Film opens showing map of Asia and black clouds coming from all around the world to enclose Japan. A street scene with commercial displays of lights and modern architecture. Hollywood movie advertisements, including one for the 1931 Hollywood movie "Confessions of a Co-Ed," starring Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, and Norman Foster. Japanese newspapers reporting on communist activities. View of a woman's skirt and shoes as she walks along a sidewalk in Western clothing fashions. Similar view of a man. Japanese woman in Western fashions holding a compact and powdering her face. Closeup of the woman's face, with lipstick applied. She winks at the camera. A Japanese man and woman dressed in Western fashions, walking together. They sit together at a cafe table sipping sodas through straws. Behind them on the wsll is posted an advertisement for the 1930 movie, "Girl of the Golden west" starring Ann Harding. Japanese people in western fashions hurrying along a city street past others in more traditional Japanese garb. A Japanese dressed in the latest Western golfing attire, teeing off on a golf course. Two boy caddies stand next to him. Laborers in a glen using pickaxes to contour the ground (possibly for a golf course). View of a large school building with many uniformed school girls performing calisthenics in the schoolyard. Final scene reverts to the opening map and shows the dark clouds being dispelled from Japan.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025038
Activity of Japanese troops and Emperor Hirohito observes drills and a parade in Japan.

A Japanese militaristic propaganda film on the material and spiritual strength of Japan. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Opening scene shows illustration of Japanese Emperor Jimmu, with sword and quiver of arrows slung from his waist. He holds a long bow. Next is a stack of history books, with pages being turned on the top one. Dramatization of combat between forces of the Tokugawa Shogunate and those supporting restoration of the Emperor to power, in 1868. A recruitment poster showing two Japanese soldiers. Recruits taking physical exams and one flexing his muscles. A parade of soldiers carrying the Japanese Rising Sun flag. Japanese sailors among spectators on a sidewalk. Recruits gathering in a field. Soldiers in uniform in a formation. Mounted Japanese officers riding in a column along a path. Some wear white arm bands, and Two carry Japanese flags. Emperor Hirohito is seen riding a white horse, in the midst of the column. He pauses and exchanges salutes with an officer with some troops in formation at the side of the path. The officer points to troops assembled in two directions. The Emperor continues on his way, followed by his entourage. Next, a large gathering of people is seen at a courtyard near the Emperial Palace in Tokyo. They Wave patriotic banners and Japanese flags, and give cheers in unison. A boy scout drum and bugle corps plays and marches. Scene shifts to Japanese soldiers marching on a large open field. A large group of them carry massed Japanese Rising Sun flags. They are reviewed by officers on horseback.

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025042
Japan mobilizing for war

Scenes from 1930s during lead up to Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War 2. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Opening scene shows a practice drill in which male emergency workers, in white uniforms, arrive by truck and assemble in a field, as hook and ladder fire trucks filled with firemen, arrive and turn into a circle. Glimpse of women nurses in white uniforms standing near a large Red Cross flag with Japanese writing on it. Scene shifts to traffic on a busy city street. Tnen a closeup of Japanese women in white garb, passing out leaflets to people. Boy Scouts at the corner of a building and Girl Scouts at another spot, solicit contributions for the troops. They use megaphones to get the attention of busy pedestrians. The girls hold baskets to collect contributions. Women in traditional Japanese garb stand on a street corner and encourage public support for Japanese soldiers, by knitting scarfs to be sent to them. Soldiers stand on a street corner wearing sashes and displaying a banner. More girl scouts (or uniformed school girls) soliciting support for the military. View from a high vantage point overlooking a bridge filled with pedestrians. Camera pans upward showing way into downtown. Japanese people attend a public display of airplanes at an airport in Osaka, where citizens have contributed to fund them. They crowd around two biwing planes. A woman bows at a temporary shrine set up honoring Japanese fliers. Closeup of airplane fuselage with writing on it. Quartering view from front of radial engine running on the airplane. Covered search lights sitting side by side. Anti-aircraft battery consisting of sound detection listening devices and guns. A Japanese army truck on display and then driving away. Closeup of an anti-aircraft searchlight. More views of sound detection devices. Air raid sirens. Two bi-wing airplanes. The one in foreground is equipped with a center ski. A Nakajima aircraft in flight overhead. A searchlight being demonstrated at night. Glimpse of firemen extinguishing a fire in a street, during exercise. Nurses and stretcher bearers in an emergency exercise. Soldiers remove signs from an army truck. Emergency workers in full protective gear, including gas masks, demonstrate and exercise emergency procedures using gas on a city street. A rifle being fired at a target. Girls lined up with rifles in prone position on a firing range. They stand up with their rifles. Riveters working on steel girders of a building under construction. Closeup of a hot rivet being installed. People traveling on motorcycles, cars, and bicycles. Feet of pedestrians walking on sidewalk. View from above of cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians moving near an electric tram on a city street. Passenger railroad coaches passing the camera viewing from beside railroad tracks. A clamshell bucket unloading coal from a barge. Cargo in a net being unloaded from a ship to a dock. New automobiles driving on a Japanese highway. Trains moving through a rail yard with many rail lines. Japanese business commuters walking on a railroad station platform. Japanese Women working rapidly using headsets and manual phone plugs at a switchboard in a telephone exchange. A Japanese businessman using the telephone. A woman typing on an english typewriter keyboard. Construction workers using wrenches to bolt a steel part on a structure. Various kinds of machinery running rapidly. Hot steel being handled in a steel mill. Fires in furnaces and smoke billowing from factory smoke stacks next to numerous electric power lines.

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025043