Japanese school children and war games [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]

Accession Number F06931
Collection type Film
Measurement 23 min 2 sec
Object type Newsreel, Short film
Physical description 35mm/b&w/sound
Place made Japan
Date made 1942
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

1. Item on Japanese school children showing boys and girls practicing marching, boys performing sword drill and gymnastics (Indonesian narration). 2. Infant school children singing to musical accompaniment. Teenage boys rowing long boats in a landing exercise armed with mock wooden rifles and and carrying Japanese flags (Soundtrack in Japanese). 3. Teenage girls in training as nurse stretcher bearers and performing marching drill carrying stretchers (Indonesian narration). 4. Japanese school children armed with mock rifles and machine guns engage in an wargame fought in a Japanese town (Soundtrack in Japanese). 5. School students construct and fly model airplanes.

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