Collection search - News Parade of the Year 1945
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Record information – Brief News Parade of the Year 1945
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1945/1946 ?Item number (ISN):135807Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GOODSON, JackAccession:1989-0365Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1945/1946 ?Production company:Castle FilmsProduction credit:editing, Eugene W. CastleDescription:News highlights from 1945. Stories include: Bombing of British Battleship H.M.S. Barham, Hitler's V2 Bomb exposed, death of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Eisenhower accepts Germany's "unconditional surrender" for Allies in Berlin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reviews British and Canadian troops, liberated nations rejoice including shots of Charles de Gaulle, Denmark's King Christian, Marshal Montgomery, Norway's Crown Prince Olaf. Also shown are Axis war criminals Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Karl Rudolf von Runsdtedt, Henri Pétain, Pierre Laval, Tomoyuki Yamashita. Footage of American soldiers in Japan at Iwo Jima and the battle of Okinawa, atomic bomb explosion destroys Nagasaki, American G.I.s return home aboard the carrier Saratoga, Victory parade in New York with U.S. president Harry S. Truman.Language:Silent with English intertitlesDetailed holdings information: -
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