After stand-down

A RAAF Cine Unit production mainly showing the recreation activities of RAAF personnel and families and general aspects of rural life in Japan during the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) period. Opens with ground crew servicing P-51 Mustang fighter of 77 Squadron RAAF most probably at Iwakuni. Ground to air shot of Mustang flying. Aerial shot of volcano. RAAF marching. Close up of RAAF band bass drummer. Sports scenes including pole vault, water skiing and sail boats. Lake-side Hotel BCOF Rest Centre. Otsuya Inn Kyoto, BCOF Holiday Club. Hotel Kawana Ito, BCOF Holiday Hostel. RAAF riding horses and on walks. Sight seeing. Japanese fisherman. Lake-side Hotel BCOF Rest Centre. Waterfall and hydro-electric power station. Electricity connected to traditional Japanese houses. Waterwheel powered mill. Another machine pounding grain. Japanese farmers harvesting rice. Japanese mother and baby. Japanese farmers carrying sheaves of rice. Farmers in field. Close up of farmer. Water wheel irrigation. Farmers hoeing in field and ploughing with oxen. Planting rice. Cherry blossoms. Women preparing food in the field. RAAF men picnicing with Japanese. Japanese singing and playing a Japanese zither. Drinking sake. Intoxicated Japanese. Japanese girls wearing traditional kimono. Japanese women in European evening dresses. Japanese wooden bridges consisting of many arches. Gate to Shinto shrine. Performance of a Noh play. Shinto priests and temple. Japanese women digging, men sawing wood, planing wood. RAAF wife with Japanese family. Japanese women carrying bundles of sticks. Water wheel in field. RAAF man sits by the sea writing in a pad. Fade out to end title.