[San Diego and San Francisco V-J Day Celebrations] (silent)

Description: Content warning: Contains images of non-consensual kissing and grabbing.

Unedited newsreel footage of V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day) celebrations in downtown San Diego (with some footage from San Francisco), with excited crowds of military personnel and civilians on city streets expressing joy, enthusiasm, freedom, freewheeling behavior, and also harassing behavior. The footage, probably shot on August 14, 1945, was filmed by a military cameraperson and sourced from the National Archives and Records Administration by The Archives Project.

Can states: ""SAN FRANCISCO VJ-DAY CELEBRATIONS" B-WIND MASTER"; ""SAN FRANCISCO V-J DAY CELEBRATIONS" [number torn] 4821 35MM B/W NEG B-WIND MASTER"; "10 frames missing-'Peace' sign segment"; "Removed 9/19/89 for Deep Focus Prods. 'Forbidden City'"

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Subjects: 1940s, World War II, Celebrations and ceremonies, Parades and processions, War, Cities, Drugs alcohol tobacco, Youth, Military

Tags: San Francisco; Market Street; celebrations; festivities; confetti; drinking; kissing; non-consensual kissing; V-symbol hand signs; victory hand signs; newspapers; men holding newspaper headline PEACE!; consensual kissing; U.S. army personnel; propaganda; sign "Blame Them for Higher Prices"; sign "aircraft employment"; Cabrillo Theater; American flags; sign "Dr. Levitt"; national flags; German flags; Broadway Fountain (San Diego); African American soldiers, African American celebrants; sign "Kentucky Tavern"; palm trees; San Diego; kissing babies; fountains; WAC personnel; women's army corps; military police; harassment; water fight; man swimming in public fountain; Communist flag; street scenes; signs; neon signs; drunk people; drunken behavior; sailors in uniform; U.S. Navy; waving at camera; teenagers; crowds; climbing a palm tree; shoving; splashing; woman pushed into fountain; hand over lens; men; riots; male violence; civil disturbance; civil unrest

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1945-08-14

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Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California; San Diego, California

Genre/Form: nonfiction, documentary

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Film Format: 35mm film

Element: negative

Color: b&w

Color Process: Eastman

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 998