BRIGANDS SURRENDER: CHINESE GUERRILLA BAND IN PERAK, MALAYA

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: JFU 647).

Synopsis

In Perak, a bandit group of former anti-Japanese guerrillas surrenders and disbands.

Armed guerrillas standing at the roadside; one has a Chinese nationalist flag. Various shots of the guerrillas marching through the town. The Chinese Consul, Perak Secretariat and his British adviser R G K Thompson, saluting the marchpast. Guerrillas. Brief medium close-up of a guerrilla. Seated guerrillas with rifles. They are addressed by Thompson. Spectators. More guerrillas get down from a lorry. Thompson and the consul seated at a table; a queue of guerrillas stands behind and a man in civilian dress standing at the table has a revolver in the waistband of his trousers. A guerrilla is issued cigarettes and food.

Notes

The Chinese nationalist flag is significant, as during the war there were various Chinese guerrilla groups affiliated to either the Nationalists, or the Chinese Communist Party, and this affected their reintegration (or failure to reintegrate) to postwar society. The cameraman's dopesheet remarks 'They should have disbanded in Dec. 1945, but due to a misunderstanding they took to the jungle and began open banditry in the Lenggong, Grik and Siamese border areas'.

 

Titles

  • BRIGANDS SURRENDER: CHINESE GUERRILLA BAND IN PERAK, MALAYA (Allocated)
Series Title:
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
 

Technical Data

Year:
1946
Running Time:
2 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
163 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
War Office Directorate of Public Relations
cameraman
Clark, P (Sergeant)
Production company
SEAC Film Unit