Japan’s Women Step In Aka Japans Women Step In (1946)

Title reads: “Japan’s Women Step In“. Japan. First democratic and free election, Japanese women get vote. Various shots of passers-by looking at election posters. Travelling shot from car passing queues, mostly of women, at polling stations. C/U of babies carried on their mothers’ backs. Various shots of people voting. Various shots of crowds in Tokyo streets. Japanese police endeavour to control crowds. Political procession with banners which dissolves into a riot. FILM ID:1380.3 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews co