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Allied prisoners shares his experiences after being released from the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines.

United States prisoners and British prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. 511 Allied prisoners after being liberated from the Japanese prison camp. Soldiers get off a truck. Liberated soldiers share their experiences of the life at Japanese prison camps. British Sergeant Robert Fell speaks and says that he was taken prisoner in Singapore. He says that a number of prisoners lost their lives due to diphtheria, cholera and other diseases. He was taken to Thailand and brought back to Singapore from where the prisoners went aboard a Japanese ship. Majority of the prisoners lost their lives after the Japanese ship was sunk due to American air attack near Luzon. Then he was taken to the Cabanatuan prison camp. Another liberated prisoner Sergeant Samuel Goldy expresses gladness on being released by the Americans after 3 years of imprisonment.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059190
Film 'Wonders of the World' shows traffic policeman on road and worker collecting rubber from trees in Singapore.

Film 'Wonders of the World' shows natives rowing boats in Singapore. Number of boats docked at harbor. Bus, cars and bicycles on street. Traffic police man gives hand signals. Worker cuts tree bark for rubber which is collected in a small container.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043495
Natives around their residential apartments and women shop at a market place in Singapore.

Buildings and a market in Singapore after the war ( World War II). Cars parked in front of the buildings. Traffic on a road. Boats anchored at a dock. Damaged buildings due to the war. Clothes hanged out side houses in an apartment building. Children sit and eat. People eat. Women sit in cycle carts. Bananas in a shop. A man paints a tin container. Women buy clothes. Women check out shoes, flasks, hand bags, watches and clothes. Clothes displayed on dummies.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068276
Staged meeting of press personnel Harold Horan, Robert Sherrod, and others discussing Guam and Singapore issues

Shows journalists, Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time Magazine offices in New York. The journalists hold a meeting. Camera focuses on reporter who comments on the President's strategy in Guam vis-a-vis the Japanese.

Date: 1939
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029694
Japanese propaganda film reenacting the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse

From a Japanese propaganda newsreel. Blend of actual and reenactment scenes depicting the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and the HMS Repulse off the coast of Singapore. Japanese Mitsubishi-96 bombers overhead in formation. Japanese aircraft drop bombs on the British ships. Large explosion on British battleship as it is struck by a torpedo. British flag on the mast of a ship. Japanese pilot speaks over mouthpiece, seated in cockpit of Mitsubishi-96 bomber. Another pilot looks through binoculars. (World War II period).

Date: 1941, December 10
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675023574
Doctor reads reports at the Health section of the League of Nations.

A man enters the Health section of the League of Nations in Singapore. A doctor receives reports regarding contagious diseases in Asia. This information is passed to other countries, port authorities, and ships at sea. A League of Nations meeting regarding nutrition. A nurse accompanies a boy carried up steps on stretcher by paramedics. A nurse tends to a patient inside a hospital ward. A doctor or scientist works inside a chemistry laboratory on vaccines and drugs for healthcare. Montage showing Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and elevated view of pedestrians on a busy street in China.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029411