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Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

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Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

September 1945, Queen's Road, Hong Kong. A little Chinese girl selling dried fish.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

September 1945, Queen's Road, Hong Kong. A building Chinese inhabited.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

September 1945, Queen's Road, Hong Kong. This is a street where local Chinese merchants gather, and people on the street are conducting various transactions.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

September 1945, Queen's Road, Hong Kong. Two Chinese that are entering the black market.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. To celebrate the victory and surrender of the Allies, British warships fired 21 salutes in Victoria Bay.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. Japanese officers sign the instrument of surrender.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. Japanese officers sign the instrument of surrender. This one is an army representative.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. The commander of the Japanese garrison in Hong Kong handed over his saber to the British representatives and surrendered.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. The Royal Navy and Royal Marines marched to the Governor's House, the year Britain resumed colonial rule over Hong Kong.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. Royal Marines, Royal Navy queues, members of the Special Forces and Australian troops line up in front of the Governor's House to celebrate the Allied victory

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

October 1945, Hong Kong. The British and Republic of China representatives attend the surrender ceremony of Japan, which is the speech of the British representative General Harcourt (third from right) after Japan signed the instrument of surrender

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. Wan Chai Theatre performs plays

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. See Victoria Bay and the New Territories Mountains from a mansion destroyed by the Japanese during World War II.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. Tycoon Sir Robert Ho Tung and his family in front of the mansion.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. The court to try Japanese war criminals

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. The Chinese employees of the Chinese-owned Hang Seng Bank savings office on Queen's Road, whose subsequent development no one expected.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. The countryside landscape of the eastern New Territories, a vast area between the main island of British colony Hong Kong and Guangdong Province in the Republic of China, was leased to Hong Kong during the Qing Dynasty.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. A printer prints a book titled "The Four Great Families of China."

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. Emperor Horse Racing has resumed, and horse fans are eagerly awaiting.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. British soldiers patrolling Lin Ma Hang.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1947. Reconstruction work is already underway in the city, and in front of the restored building is a statue of Sir Thomas Jackson.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. The mansion of the owner of the Macau Electric Light Company.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. Cricket club members play friendly matches on green lawns in the mid-levels.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. The former Emperor Annambao the Great, who was deposed by France, lit a cigarette in his apartment. The man's name was Nguyễn Phúc Thiển

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. Former Annam king Bao Dai, who was deposed by the French, sits in his Hong Kong apartment.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. Li Jichen, the leader of the mainland exiles, sits in his living room with a Chinese painting behind his back.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. Mainland refugees carry household items to shantytowns in the mountains.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. Mainland refugees build their own wooden houses on a hill on the shores of Causeway Bay.

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. After the economic recovery after World War II, it was a large textile equipment inside the Nanyang manufacturing plant

Documentary, Hong Kong Video Recording in the 40s (Japan's Surrender)

Hong Kong, 1948. After the economic recovery of World War II, this is an exclusive swimming pool on the banks of Repulse Bay, offering guests soda and farm-made dairy products.

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