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WWII - 1945, B/W, Los Angeles / California: Crowds Celebrate VJ Day, 14Aug45

Reel Number: 221103-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: USA

Location: California,Hollywood,Los Angeles

TC Begins: 08:25:55

TC Ends: 08:31:36

Duration: 00:05:41

WWII - 1945, Los Angeles / California: Crowds Celebrate VJ Day, 14Aug45 Daytime. MS Boys seated on lamp post at Hollywood & Vine St. in Los Angeles w/ Pantages Theater & Hollywood Blvd. in BG - ticker-tape & paper floating down. Pan down to crowd and stalled traffic filling intersection. Broken glass in street. Looking south on Vine Street. Many HA shots of crowd cheering & waving US flags, newspaper headlines etc. 08:27:11 Sailor w/ thick beard holds up newspaper headline: ‘Japan War Ends’ then kisses woman. Pan across crowd, man waving banner ‘100% All Wool Gabardine Slacks’. 08:28:2? Woman waves ribbon streamer from window of Guaranty Building. Group of people march down street w/ large US flag, waving at camera. Servicemen and girls dance in jitterbug style in street as man plays trumpet in automobile. 08:30:57 Traveling shot as camera car pulls away from dancers; wider shot of street showing decorations & two cars filled w/ people posing & waving for camera; man stands on hood doing Nazi / Hitler impression. WWII; WW2; Pacific War; VJ Day; US Home Front; End of War;

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