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Traders bid & sell and brokers buy & sell at Manila Stock Exchange in Manila, Philippines.

Film begins showing interior of the Stock Exchange in Manila, Philippines. Filipino and American traders in white shirts bid and sell in the Manila Stock Exchange, located in the business district of Escolta (Philippine National Bank Building-Escolta Escolta St Binondo, Manila 1006 Metro Manila). Traders talk with phones. On the sugar board, brokers continue to conduct general buy and sell activities. Sign says 'Manila Stock Exchange'.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045285
American Chamber of Commerce board meeting with Gaches (president) at the head of the table in Manila, Philippines.

American Chamber of Commerce board meeting in Manila, Philippines. American Chamber of Commerce board meeting with Gaches (president) at the head of the table. Female secretary gives a document to the President. Men in white suits smoke cigars. Insignia of American Chamber of Commerce, the Philippines.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045286
Paul McNutt, U.S. Commissioner to Philippines visits Golden Gate fair in San Francisco, California.

Paul McNutt, United States Commissioner to Philippines with his wife and daughter in San Francisco, California. Cannon salute to McNutt. Soldiers on parade. McNutt seen at the Golden Gate International Exposition, in front of Philippines building and crossing the gate.

Date: 1939, June
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034124
The Philippines gains independence from the United States on July 4, 1946

The Philippines are established as an independent nation. Crowds of Filipinos gathered at Rizal Park (Luneta Park) in Manila on the July 4, 1946. View of Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument) with American flag and Philippine flags on tall flag poles.. View looking down on General Douglas MacArthur at a podium, speaking into microphones. Camera pans over various segments of the audience. A map shows the Philippine Islands in context of its neighbors in the Pacific Ocean. Camera pans closeup across faces of many Filipinos gathered at the independence event. View of the Jones Bridge over the Pasig River in downtown Manila. Heacock’s Department Store on the Escolta.The Legislative Building. (later the National Museum of the Philippines). Ocean going ships in a harbor. Cargo being offloaded from a ship onto smaller boat. An industrial complex with eight tall smoke stacks emitting smoke. Steel and petroleum plants. Filipino workers in an assembly plant. The Legislative building with people coming and going. Air raid sirens sounding and people running in streets of Manila at onset of Japanese invasion of the Philippines in December, 1941, at start of World War 2, in the Pacific.People running across the Jones Bridge, seeking shelter. Others boarding a bus. Smoke rising from Japanese bombing. Glimpse of Japaese tanks entering Manila. Japanese infantry climbing a hill. Bodies of persons killed during the Japanese invasion. Glimpse of Japanese troops occupying Corregidor. U.S. General Wainright negotiating the surrender of Corrigidor with Japanese General Homma. View of an American warship firing during the U.S. campaign to defeat the Japanese on islands in the Pacific. An American landing ship carrying U.S. troops who storm ashore. General Douglas MacArthur striding ashore with a retinue of officers, at Leyte, Philippines, on October 20, 1944. as he keeps his promise to return to the Philippines. Views, back again, to MacArthur speaking at the Independence Day ceremony in Manila on July 4, 1946. Also seen at the ceremony are: U.S.Senator Millard Tydings, (co-sponsor of the 1934 Tydings–McDuffie Act, which provided independence to the Philippines after a 10-year transition under a limited autonomy), and Paul V. McNutt, U.S. High Commissioner of the Philippines, who read President Truman's proclamation of Philippine Independence to the assembly. Camera pans over the gathering which includes many U.S. Service personnel in uniform. The oath of office is administered to the elected President of the Philippines, Manuel Roxas. At the conclusion, the American flag is lowered by Paul McNutt, as President Roxas raises that of the Republic of the Philippines. A celebratory parade in Manila includes a float with signs reading: "Let's Produce and Rebuild," among other things. Other floats represent "Mountain Province," and "The City of Manila," "The University of the Philippines," and "The Division of City Schools." One float, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, contains a huge replica machine gear, and models of an aircraft and a ship. It's message is about turning the gear that helps make the nation great. American and Filipino soldiers march, carrying their respective national flags. A white-helmeted military band plays for the marchers. Final scene shows large loose formation of military aircraft in flight very high above the Independence Grandstand, at Rizal Park.

Date: 1946, July 4
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038746
Melted gold is poured at Benguet consolidated Gold Mining Company, Baguio in the Philippine islands.

Benguet Gold mining company in the Philippine islands. Judge Haussmann, American mining tycoon in his office in Manila with his chief clerk Mr. Duggleby. Benguet consolidated Gold Mining Company, Baguio. Several views of a mine. Miners coming and going from work. Miners leave shaft housing. Ore buckets being carried by miners. Interiors of a mine. Miners enter and leave cages. Miners drill with air blowers and pneumatic drills. Pouring melted gold into bullion molds.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045290
Ore buckets pass along a rope way and via railroads at Gold Mining Company, Baguio in the Philippine islands.

Balatoc Gold mining company in the Philippine islands. Balatoc Gold mining Co., Baguio. Various views of mines and buildings. Ore buckets pass along a rope way. Ore train leaves a mine. Sign: 'Balatoc Mining Company'. Ore buckets being carried via railroads. Judge Haussmann, American mining tycoon in his office in Manila with his chief clerk Mr. Duggleby.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045291