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Weekly Review No. 208 - VJ Day Celebrations

Short Film (Full Length) – 1945

At 11am on 15 August 1945 news of Japanese surrender reached New Zealand, marking the end of the nation's six years in World War II. This newsreel records the public celebrations in windy downtown Wellington and on Auckland’s Queen St, where there are street parties, bagpipes and beer as tensions are released. At Wellington Town Hall on the second day of the public holiday, tributes are paid to “team spirit”; and Prime Minister Fraser hopes for social justice and that the dead have not died in vain. Then there is a mass rendition of ‘Land of Hope of Glory’.

And for this Chinaman, this is the greatest day of all: Japan has been defeated.
– Narrator Rex Walden

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Rex Walden

Narrator

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Oxley Hughan

Editor

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Cyril Morton

Editor

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Russell Reid

Editor, Writer

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Geoffrey Scott

Editor

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A.W.E. Bailey

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