Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan during World War II in the United States. Officials of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desks and Major General Walter C. Short, U.S. Army (retired), addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. He states that he appeared for the hearing of Pearl Harbor attack in August 1944. No indication was made by the war department about the attack. No information was furnished by them. If they had furnished the information, some decisions or actions could have been taken. He talked to officials of the war time division, but no conclusions were made.
Scenes in the Philippines before World War II, from a 1944 film. Exterior of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Judges and officials of the court seated in the court and trials being conducted. Exterior of House of Congress. Interior view with legislature in session. Filipino President Manuel Luis Quezon seen speaking to legislators and seated at a desk in discussion by telephone and with officials. View of his Vice Presiden, Sergio Osmeña, seated in an office. Filpino children pray in front of an altar with the figure of Jesus at a church. Women cross themselves in church. View of beaches on islands. Moro men on Mindanao. Moro man using a bolo (steel blade with handle akin to machete) to cut open a coconut and to cut down crops in field. Moro men gathered near docks at a beach area. Earlier views of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing between time of Spanish American War and World War I. Street views in city and town areas of Zamboanga, Mindanao, with businesses, rickshaws, commercial traffic. A monkey with a very short stub of a tail that is local to Mindanao (stump-tailed macaque). Moro women and men dancers perform a traditional dance and play music. A moro woman spinning a large clay vessel to husk rice. Moro woman walking with goods piled and balanced on her head. Moro men moving a small house using large poles. Moro man getting a haircut. Moro woman washing clothes. Moro fishing vessels with small sails heading out to sea.
Activities of indigenous Filipinos in the Philippines shortly before World War II, from a 1944 film showing earlier scenes. Moro musicians sit beside gongs. Animated map of the Philippines showing the main islands of the archipelago such as Mindanao, Cebu, Mindoro, and Luzon. An American man compares his height to a Negrito man. Negrito men pose wearing loin cloths and running from a field. Negrito boy hugs a U.S. soldier. Igorot people gather near a house in the Cordillera region. Terraced rice fields and irrigation ditches made by the Igorots for thousands of years. View of the Banaue Rice Terraces. Mountains in the foreground. Young Igorot men and women in lowland attire such as Barong Tagalog and Terno perform a rice dance.
Activities of Filipino women in the Philippines shortly before World War II, from a 1944 film showing pre-war scenes. Filipino women in homes and offices. A Physical Education teacher watch a group of female Filipino students jogging in two straight lines. Faces of young Filipino women smiling. Pairs of dancers perform Filipino folk dance Cariñosa with handkerchiefs. Two women talk amongst themselves while shopping in a crockery shop. A woman stitches clothes using a sewing machine. Some of the women work in their houses. A woman practices archery. Women wearing various traditional Filipino dresses such as the Maria Clara dress of the Tagalogs and Batawi for Muslim Tausug women. Tagalog women wearing Terno dresses made of Piña or Pineapple cloth. A woman shows her Terno’s ‘Butterfly sleeves’. Filipino women working as soda fountain waitresses and Blues singers. Women doctors and nurses in a hospital. Young Filipino women and men dance the Jitterbug.
Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II (from a 1944 film showing earlier scenes). A wedding ceremony in a church in the Philippines. A Roman Catholic priest officiates a Filipino wedding. Children play with see-saw outside a traditional Bahay Kubo house. A man offers ‘ulam’ or dish to accompany with rice. Interior of a house. A Filipino woman cooks pochero, a stewpot dish. Men and women seated at a table eating food. A woman scoops rice to her plate. A man wearing a Barong Tagalog having dinner at home. Filipinos roasting ‘Lechon’ during an outdoor barbecue. Suckling pig cooked over charcoal. Filipinos enjoying barbecue dishes. People buying vegetables such as ampalaya (bitter melon) and jicamas at the wet market. Vegetable in baskets. Houses in the background. Narrator warning about food and water safety and risk of dysentery. Scene closes with wartime views in World War w of Japanese soldiers marching in the Philippines.
Sports activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II. Filipinos gather outside the Rizal Memorial Coliseum (Ocampo St, Malate, Manila, 1004 Metro Manila) in Manila, Philippines. Different sports activities of Filipino people. Filipino professional players compete during a baseball competition in Manila. Young indigenous Igorot teenagers play baseball in the Cordilleras Region. Participants swim in a pool during a swimming contest. People gather for a horse-racing contest. They watch the horses and cheer. Filipino men playing Sepak Takraw, also known as kick volleyball. Igorot men engage in amateur boxing outdoors. An American G.I. acts as a commentator during the match. Boys compete in amateur boxing. Filipino boxer Ceferino Garcia participates in a boxing contest. Billboards of American brands such as Chesterfield, Texaco, Camel and Socony to Baguio City. A gas station sign showing the distance to various cities in Northern Philippines. (Film is from 1944, showing scenes from pre-war)
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