Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day Newcastle (N.S.W.) in 1945 (16mm Colour)

This rare 16mm colour film of Newcastle's celebrations during Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day or VJ Day (Victory in Japan) was donated to Greg and Sylvia Ray in 2019 by Mrs Vera Findlay of Greta.

The original creator of the film is unidentified.

Greg and Sylvia Ray had the film digitised to accompany the related WW2 photographs in their book "Newcastle The Missing Years" see:

Greg and Sylvia Ray donated the original 16mm film to Cultural Collections, in the Auchmuty Library of the University of Newcastle in January 2020.

The film was digitised by Phillip Lloyd (UON AV Digitisation Specialist) on 20 February 2020 at the GLAMx Audio-visual Digitisation Lab, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle.

Courtesy - University of Newcastle (Australia)


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