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WWII - 1942, Pacific, Philippines: Japanese Peaceful Capture of Philippines

Reel Number: 221507-12

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942,1940s

Country: Japan,Philippines

Location: Manila,Philippine islands

TC Begins: 03:24:04

TC Ends: 03:30:58

Duration: 00:06:54

WWII - 1942, Pacific: Japanese Peaceful Capture of Philippines NOTE: Sound track missing. Some camera problems but GOOD footage. Benigno Aquino & Jorge Vargas at microphones (MOS) as Japanese officers look on in background. 03:25:19 Japanese title. Men & women lined up in Manila street, cars parked both sides. Japanese title. Sheet hung across street: Open City. Japanese troops in truck & on street outside Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. Troops & Filipinos. People run to pick up leaflets dropped from plane. Soldier w/ banner beside street car. Japanese Title. Japanese officer & troop w/ swords in formation, gives Banzai cheer. Families w/ belongings wait on street beside bus. Filipinos into Catholic church. Car w/ white flag thru street. People walk on forest w/ sacks & good, chickens. Japanese troops in truck leading cars along rural road. 03:27:59 Monument of angel (?) tilt down to Spanish (?) soldiers. Busy street scene w/ cars, carriages, pedestrians. Street car past. (GOOD) 03:28:28 Sugar cane field. Japanese (?) troops w/ horses, wagons & walking along rural road & bridge. Half-track troop carrier past camera. Bags of rice into warehouse. People sifting rice in wind. 09:29:29 Japanese officer seated in front of Japanese flag & behind microphone reading speech. 03:29:44 Aquino, Vargas, Quintin Parades, Claro M. Recto, Rafael Alunan & others listen as a Japanese officer reads & gives them a proclamation (Japanese, partially visible). CUs. 03:30:10 Filipino civilians & Japanese pose in front of city building; in front of rural (?) hospital. Banner in English: Return To Your Home. People into trucks w/ Japanese flags & signs in English (Peace From Asia & ??); driving off. WW2; Japanese Newsreel; Occupation; 1940s Philippine Islands; Daily Life;

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