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.
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.
A film features interesting tourist sites and activities in the Philippines. American servicemen at work in the Philippines. A Filipino man pushes a shopping cart for an American woman in the US Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga. Americans sunbathing. American and Filipino men and women sunbathing and swim in a pool. View of the Banaue Rice Terraces in the Ifugao province. View of the Banaue Hotel, featuring modern amenities such as a swimming pool. People walking and cars driving along Session Road in Baguio City. President's summer palace, The Mansion, in Baguio, City. An American Colonial style house in Baguio, City. Entrance to the John Hay Air Base. A man plays golf on a course at the air base. A man in a boat on a rapid in the Pagsanjan River. Aerial view of Taal Volcano in Lake Taal. View of the Cultural Center of the Philippines building in Manila, Philippines. Spanish Colonial era façade and buildings found in Intramuros, the historical walled city in Manila. View of Corregidor Island, near Manila. World War 2 era artillery and ruins in Corregidor Island.
Troops drill at Camp John Hay in Baguio City, Philippines. View of the Bell Amphitheater (Historical Core, Camp John Hay, Baguio, Benguet). Igorot men perform a war dance. Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets perform a drill on the Ateneo de Manila Intramuros campus in Manila. They march in uniforms with flags and guns. School band marches. Officers and a Jesuit priest (likely Ateneo de Manila Rector Father Henry C. Avery SJ) sit and watch the event. Cars parked in front of the Ateneo campus. An American officer decorates a cadet.
Churchill Scott of Richmond, Virginia holds his son Richard during an interview with United States Army forces. Mr. Scott states how his son Richard was born in a Japanese concentration camp in Baguio, Philippines during World War II.
Following victory over Japan in World War 2, a map shows the surrender of Japanese troops to Allied forces in different regions of Pacific Theater during World War II. On Cebu Island in the Philippines, U.S. 8th Army soldiers march several thousand Japanese prisoners along a road. Command of Japanese 34th Army hands over his saber. American soldiers gather piles of swords received in surrender from the Japanese forces. View of mist hanging over Governor's Palace (The Mansion) in Baguio Philippines. General Wainwright and General Percival arrive by car at the mansion. Japanese General Yamashita arrives next and enters the building. General Tomoyuki Yamashita signs surrender documents as General Wainwright and other Allied officers look on. General Yamashita is taken to New Bilibid prison and is seen being escorted into a prison cell.