Selected Originals - Tokyo Riots (1952)

Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story ’Tokyo Riots’ 52/39 Same material as in Newsreel Story - American voiceover - first shot not superimposed with title. Tokyo, Japan. 400,000 workers and students in Tokyo clash with police on May Day after anti-American speeches by Communist leaders, four days after Japan regained independence. GV. Japanese workers and students massed in Tokyo. LV. Back view, speaker addressing crowd. CU. Ranting speaker. SV. man in crowd applauding. SV. Agitators in flaming mob. Chairs being knocked over. SV. Crowd shouting at speakers. SV. Agitators lifting flags. SV. Pan from platform to excited crowd. MV. Procession carrying signs, banners and posters. MV. SV. Demonstrators in long line snaking backwards and forwards across road. GV. Procession. SV. Pan, excited demonstrators, in procession. LV. Formation of police charging procession. SV. MV. Police lashing into crowd with truncheons. GV. SV. Police throwing tear gas bomb into crowd of