- Title: VM-329
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS:
- Description:00:00:40 - NEWSREEEL OPENING 00:00:55 - CHARTER SIGNED FOR WORLD PEACE (APRIL 25, 1945) 00:01:02 - GREAT CONFERENCE OF UNITED NATIONS AT SAN FRANCISCO CLOSES IN TRIUMPH 00:01:10 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN ARRIVES AT SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT 00:01:33 - MONTAGE HARRY S. TRUMAN IN MOTORCADE THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO STREETS 00:01:49 - DELEGATES AT UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE STAND TO VOTE. CHARTER IS ADOPTED 00:02:05 - DR. WELLINGTON KOO SIGNS & SPEAKS FOR CHINA AMBASSADOR GROMYKO SIGNS FOR RUSSIA LORD HALIFAX SIGNS FOR BRITAIN PAUL VON GORE SIGNS FOR FRANCE 00:03:15 - STETTINIUS SIGNS FOR U.S. IS CONGRATULATED BY HARRY S. TRUMAN 00:03:57 - TRUMAN SPEAKS TO DELEGATES URGES RATIFICATION 00:06:27 - MASS SURRENDER OF JAPANESE TROOPS ON OKINAWA 00:06:35 - MONTAGE U.S. ARTILLERY, MACHINE GUNS & WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAPANESE ON OKINAWA 00:06:58 - CU JAPANESE PRISONER BROADCASTS TO JAPANESE TO SURRENDER 00:07:04 - FOR FIRST TIME LARGE GROUPS OF JAPANESE EXIT CAVE TO SURRENDER 00:07:10 - JAPANESE PRISONERS ARE PULLED FROM WATER BY ROPE FROM SHIP AS THEY SWIM OUT FROM ISLAND 00:07:20 - BLOODIED JAPANESE OFFICER SURRENDERS TO GI - A FIRST 00:07:30 - MONTAGE DROVES OF PRISONERS SURRENDER 00:07:40 - CU BOY SOLDIER AMONG PRISONERS 00:08:00 - PHILIPPINES LIBERATED 00:08:28 - MONTAGE GIS TRY TO EXTRACT JAPANESE IN UNDERGROUND STRONGHOLD ON LUZON WITH GRENADES AND RIFLE FIRE 00:08:45 - GENERAL MACARTHUR VISITS SULTAN OF JOLO, IN SULU ISLANDS. MONTAGE MACARTHUR IS GREETED IN ISLAND BY MAORI TRIBES AND IS PRESENTED CEREMONIAL MAORI SWORDS 00:09:17 - BIG THREE MEET IN POTSDAM CONFERENCE FOR SESSION OF VICTORY CONFERENCE TO DELIBERATE CONTROL OF GERMANY, EUROPEAN BOUNDRY SETTLEMENTS & WAR IN PACIFIC. 00:09:24 - TRUMAN & STALIN EXIT BUILDING WITH ENTOURAGE 00:09:51 - TRUMAN, CHURCHILL & STALIN AT CONFERENCE 00:10:07 - TRUMAN WALKS WITH GENERAL EISENHOWER-IKE 00:10:12 - CU TRUMAN SPEAKS AS OMAR BRADLEY LOOKS ON IN BERLIN 00:11:19 - U.S. FLAG IS HOISTED IN BERLIN (SAME FLAG THAT FLEW OVER ALGIERS, ROME & SOON TOKYO) 00:11:43 - JAPAN'S DOOM: RUSSIA ENTERS WAR AGAINST JAPANESE 00:11:55 - AERIAL ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE AT POTSDAM WITH TRUMAN, CHURCHILL & STALIN. 00:12:00 - TRUMAN & SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES AT TABLE 00:12:03 - STALIN & MOLOTOV 00:12:12 - THE BIG THREE ATTLEE, TRUMAN & STALIN POSE 00:12:27 - STALIN ON KREMLIN WALL REVIEWS SOVIET PARADE OF TROOPS IN RED SQUARE 00:12:35 - AERIAL TROOPS, TANKS & WEAPONS PASS IN REVIEW IN MOSCOW SQUARE FOR ENEMY DRIVE INTO MANCHURIA 00:13:04 - AMERICA REJOICES. JAPANESE SURRENDER, END TO WWII 00:13:09 - NEWS HEADLINE PEACE 00:13:12 - AERIAL WALL TO WALL PEOPLE AT TIMES SQUARE 00:13:26 - MONTAGE HUGE CROWDS CARRY ON IN STREETS OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES 00:13:40 - DRAGON DANCE IN CHINATOWN, NYC AS CROWD WATCHES 00:13:59 - MONTAGE NEWSMEN REPORTERS GATHER AT NEWS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON TO HEAR PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEECH OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. REPORTERS RUN TO PHONES 00:14:08 - JAPANESE SURRENDER NEWS FLASHES ON NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING IN TIMES SQUARE 00:14:20 - TWO SAILORS & GIRL HELD UP ON SHOULDERS OF CROWD SAILOR KISSES GIRL 00:15:07 - MONTAGE SAILORS & GIRLS DO SNAKE DANCE IN CHICAGO STREETS 00:15:26 - AERIAL CROWDS OF PEOPLE RIDE ATOP TROLLEY IN SAN FRANCISCO 00:15:53 - ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION. PHOTOS OF ATOMIC BOMB TEST IN NEW MEXICO 6 MILES AWAY 00:16:14 - ELS BOMB EXPLODES AT NIGHT IN DESERT 00:16:40 - CU EXPLOSION TAKEN WITH TELESCOPIC LENS 00:18:02 - SURRENDER OF JAPAN. COMPLETE PICTURES OF OFFICIAL END OF WORLD WAR II 00:18:12 - USS MISSOURI SAILS INTO TOKYO BAY 00:18:22 - AERIAL ADMIRAL NIMITZ COMES ABOARD MEET HALSEY 00:18:31 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR COMES ABOARD SHAKE HANDS WITH NIMITZ & HALSEY 00:18:57 - AERIAL JAPANESE EMISSARIES ARRIVE ON U.S. LAUNCH. 00:19:14 - JAPANESE SURRENDER GROUP OF MILITARY & DIPLOMATS. JAPANESE FOREGIN MINISTER MAMORU SHIGEMITSU SIGNS FOR HIS EMPEROR & GENERAL UMEZU SIGNS FOR JAPANESE IMPERIAL GENERAL STAFF. 00:19:50 - MONTAGE ENVOY SIGN SURRENDER 00:20:09 - CU MACARTHUR SPEAKS. PRESENTS PENS TO GENERAL WAINWRIGHT (HERO OF BATAAN) & BRITISH GENERAL PERCIVAL (COMMANDER AT SINGAPORE) 00:21:09 - ADMIRAL NIMITZ SIGNS FOR UNITED STATES. 00:21:30 - REPRESENTATIVES OF CHINA, BRITAIN, RUSSIA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, & NEW ZEALAND SIGN THE PACT. 00:22:00 - CU U.S. FLAG WAVES IN WIND 00:22:13 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN HONORS GENERAL WAINWRIGHT WHO WAS PRISONER DURING WAR. RECEIVES CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR 00:22:20 - UTTER DESTRUCTION OF JAPANESE CITIES BY ATOMIC BOMBS 00:22:31 - AERIAL DESTRUCTION TO WAR CENTERS OF YOKOHAMA & OSAKA DONE BY STANDARD BOMBING DURING WWII 00:22:46 - AERIAL SHIPS SUNK IN HARBOR AT THE NAVAL BASE AT KURE BY STANDARD BOMBING 00:22:57 - AERIAL TOKYO IN RUINS 00:23:17 - AERIAL B-29 IN FLIGHT WITH A-BOMB 00:23:24 - ELS A-BOMB EXPLOSION ON NEW MEXICO DESERT 00:23:39 - MONTAGE RUBBLE OF HIROSHIMA 00:23:51 - AERIAL HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI AFTER BLAST 00:24:31 - NUREMBERG TRIAL OF NAZI WAR CRIMINALS 00:24:40 - MONTAGE DEFENDENTS SIT IN GALLERY WITH EARPHONES 00:25:04 - AMERICAN PROSECUTOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JACKSON EXPLAINS PROCEEDINGS "FIRST TRIAL IN HISTORY FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE OF THE WORLD" 00:26:11 - GOERING STANDS TO PLEA. TRIES TO MAKE A SPEECH, BUT IS STOPPED 00:26:55 - RUDOLPH HESS STANDS AND PLEAS "NEIN" NOT GUILTY 00:27:26 - VON RIBBENTROP & GENERAL WILHELM KEITEL PLEADS NOT GUILTY 00:28:01 - GOERING AGAIN TRIES TO MAKE SPEECH, IS DENIED
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-329