Fall of Corregidor in Manila Bay 7th May (Nippon News 102)

Accession Number F06814
Collection type Film
Measurement 5 min 3 sec
Object type Newsreel
Physical description 35mm/b&w/sound
Maker Nippon Eigasha
Nippon News
Place made Japan, Japan: Tokyo, Philippines
Date made 19 May 1942
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Extract from Nippon News newsreel covering the United States surrender at Corregidor, Manila Bay, Philippines. Japanese Navy and Army officers moving away from camera along mountain track. Officers standing around small table draped with white cloth. Japanese Army officer reading aloud from document. Long shot from mountain of US positions framed by a Japanese light infantry gun. Map of Corregidor showing place names in Japanese. Kindley Field airstrip showing aircraft wreck and burnt out jeep. Camera pans along airfield. High angle long shot framed by wheel of a field gun of Corregidor toward US positions before surrender. Map of Corregidor - pointer indicates Maxwell Keyes. Japanese guards and US POWs at Maxwell Keyes. US POWs carrying stores. US Navy personnel standing for the film camera on beach. US officers address men. US POWs cooking sheltered under tent. POWs bathing in the sea - barded wire silhouette in foreground. POWs bathing. High angle long shot of beach and [warehouse?] buildings. Malinta Tunnel area. Captured US small arms. POWs moving rifles supervised by Japanese guards. Entrance to the Malinta tunnel complex. Close up of date inscribed on concrete '1932' the year the tunnel was completed. Inside the tunnel showing the plant room and machinery. Three electric fans operating. Room with electrical equipment. US soldier carrying tray of food and drink through tunnel. Shower facilities. Americans making bed. Office room showing copying equipment. Stores in tunnel. Americans moving through tunnel. Tunnel hospital. Phillipino stretcher bearers moving patient supervised by US nurse. Hospital bunk beds and patients. Doctors examine patients. More hospital beds. Studies of patients in beds. Close up of US nurses. Nurses playing cards. Sign 'keep out' - probably a medicine store. Mess parade.

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