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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221500-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: USA
Location: Nebraska,North Platte
TC Begins: 17:19:22
TC Ends: 17:24:47
Duration: 00:05:25
WWII - 1945, USA: V-J Day Celebration, North Platte, Nebraska, 12Aug45 CU North Platte Telegraph newspaper extra edition: PEACE! Jap Warfare Ends. Cars driving along town street in Nebraska, waving. Men & women sitting on pavement drinking beers. Soldiers on horses drinking. Kids w/ flags on car hoods past camera. Soldiers on fenders of car. 17:20:17 Three young women waving. Pickup truck full of people waving. Newspaper boy holding newspapers, selling; CU. People wave, smoke from firecrackers in street. Post-WW2 celebrations. Camera on top of car. Man & boy on horses w/ large American flags leading parade, people watching. Parade of cars going both directions. 17:22:26 Crowd on sidewalk waving to camera. GOOD. 17:22:43 Man in tee-shirt directing traffic in intersection. Chinese restaurant in background. Drunken crowd. Man in car blowing trumpet. MCU Sergeant & woman kissing in middle of street. POV past waving crowd. Chinese boy lighting fireworks & throwing. 17:24:14 Young child & mother on car waving in CU. Celebrations; Happy; Victory; Victors; WWII Ending; 1945; Farm Town; Americana; Drunken;