ACCESS FOOTAGE

Description:

1944/07
Tinian Island
MS Marine speaks in to loudspeaker reciever
MS faces of Japanese men
MS Marines talk to Japanese men, giving them instructions
CU Marine talking in to loudspeaker reciever
MS loudspeaker on top of truck, Marines in field in BG
CU loudspeaker
LS Marines walk through green field
MS tanks through trees
01:35
LS, MS Marines protect Saipan civilians on edge of cliff
MS civilians walk away from cliff edge
MS Japanese man walks away from cliff edge, sea in BG, he is inspected by a Marine
LS Japanese man is walked away from cliff edge by Marine, sea in BG, he is stripped and checked by Marine
MS posh civilian in scarf walks L to R
MS Marines stripping a Japanese man
LS cliff landscape, people can be made out walking around
03:01
LS cliff landscape, people can be made out walking around
MS Japanese civilians including children walk up a hill to Marines
LS Marines firing guns
LS Marines escort civilians away from cliff edge
LS Japanese are searched
LS Marines escort civilians away from cliff edge
MS Marines earch Japanese civilians
MS Japanese civilians are escorted
MS small child towards camera
MS man with disability walks
MS Marines surround tank perched near cliff edge
LS Marines surround tank perched near cliff edge
LS Marines escort civilians away from cliff edge
MS Japanese soldier
MS Japanese soldiers being held
MS Japanese man and child surrender
MS Marines laugh and chuckle and smoke
MS various shots of Japanese children approach Marines and are given sweets
MS Marines talk and drink
07:00
LS shells exploding on jungle and cliffs
LS shells exploding on jungle and cliffs, tank in FG
LS shells exploding on jungle and cliffs
LS smoke rising on ridge
ULS smoke rising in jungle
MS smoke rising
MS guns firing
MS same
MS tanks coming down hill
MS Japanese man walks to surrender, is frisked by Marine
LS shells explode on jungle cliffs
LS Marines near cliff edge
CU, MS, LSs sequence shells explode near jungley cliffs, tanks firing, strafing
MS, CUs various shots of dead Japanese civilians, women and children, babies having comitted suicide.
photog: J.W Kennedy

p.s. this footage is often mistaken or used as being Saipan but clearly matches Suicide Cliff in Tinian