{"id":11847,"date":"2011-05-09T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11847"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:17:13","slug":"ve-day-in-colour-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/05\/09\/ve-day-in-colour-london\/","title":{"rendered":"VE Day in Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11848\" title=\"VE and VJ Day in London 1945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/VE-and-VJ-Day-in-London-1945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colour footage from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LondonsScreenArchive\">London Screen Archive<\/a> shows the victory celebrations of 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Shot on 16mm shot by Lieutenant Sidney Sasson of the US Army Signal Corps (Army Pictorial Service), it shows the victory celebrations in London on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victory_in_Europe_Day\">VE Day<\/a> (May 8th 1945) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victory_over_Japan_Day\">VJ Day<\/a> (August 15th 1945).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtzrA2VfV7E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Among the locations featured are 33 Davies Street, Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross, and Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for the billboard for the James Cagney film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_on_the_Sun\">Blood on the Sun<\/a> (1945), which I would guess was showing at the Empire Leicester Square.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victory_in_Europe_Day\">VE Day<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victory_over_Japan_Day\">VJ Day<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/\">Imperial War Museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colour footage from the London Screen Archive shows the victory celebrations of 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[569,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}