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Post-WWII, 1946, Soldier Activities In Tokyo, Japan 29-30Aug46

Reel Number: 221111-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946

Country: Japan

Location: Tokyo

TC Begins: 23:06:28

TC Ends: 23:13:25

Duration: 00:06:57

Post-WWII, 1946, Soldier Activities In Tokyo, Japan 29-30Aug46 (?) Slate 29Aug46 American GIs buying gifts inside store in Ginza district. INT GIs file into unid. building & up staircase; EXT queue of GIs inc. Blacks at one door, US military wives ? exit from another. GIs out of building w/ packages. 23:08:43 CU toy stall w/ sign ‘Can You Open This Box? Please Try!’ - vendor demonstrates toy. CUs GIs entering building w/ signs 2nd Floor Queue Starts Here. Soldiers eating sweets? from bags. High shots across street showing traffic & pedestrians outside department store Tokyo PX.? 23:10:14 CU GI handing money to Japanese jewelry store clerk; top shot military pin badges. CUs market stalls selling rubber inner tubes for bicycles, hardware, pipes, toys, bags. GIs & Japanese civilians milling around market. 23:12:18 Slate 30Aug46 Civilians & GIs past stores in Ginza, some w/ parasols. Low angle shot peoples’ legs as they walk along crowded sidewalk - some civilians wearing westernized clothes & footwear, other in traditional wooden sandals etc. LA shot civilians towards camera. Very good quality. Post-WW2 Japan. US Occupation. Street Scenes. Shopping. Occupied Japan; Daily Life; NOTE: Very good quality.

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