Home movie shot during the landings of 'Operation Zipper' and in Malaya, September 1945, repeating much of the coverage of the first reel.

This reel begins on board the troopship having left one of the 6 ports used for the disembarkation of the Zipper campaign (Bombay, Cochin, Madras, Vizagapatam, Calcutta or Chittagong). There are brief shots of many unidentified ships that make up the convoy, including a carrier (either Hunter, Stalker, Archer, Khedive, Emperor, Pursuer' or Trumpeter') and a battleship (probably Nelson or Richelieu). Indian and Australian troops amuse themselves on board the troopship. There is a sequence taken from inside a landing craft as it goes ashore, probably onto Morib beach, past the congestion on the beach. Film at the beachhead is of the same nature as that in the first reel. There then follows a sequence of very badly framed and poorly exposed shots at the surrender by Lieutenant General Ishiguro to Lieutenant General Roberts on September 13th, as shown in the first reel. The location is a large, official Residence in Kuala Lumpur. There are poorly framed shots of the Japanese delegation arriving and the British group inspecting the local guard.

Notes

Documentation/associated material: see mgh 723.

Remarks: the same comments apply as in reel one. The photographic quality of this reel is very poor indeed. it is a tragedy that the colour footage of the Japanese surrender is so poorly framed that one only sees chest-down shots of everyone's feet. The parallax viewfinder was presumably playing up.

Technical: the beginning of this film is black and white but the material shot once ashore in Malaya is Kodachrome.