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Taiwanese and American officers discuss about Nike-Hercules missile in Taiwan.
The first Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. A sign reads 'US Army GMAT MAAG Division A’. Sergeant Kung, Sergent Toppie Curlie, Sergent yin and Sergent First Class Robert P. Kirk, Major Chen and Captain Emil S. Pope stand in pathway and discuss about the Nike-Hercules missile. An American and a Chinese military officer walk away. Three Chinese flags on poles: flag of the Armed forces, flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and flag of the Army. Nike missile monument with dragon and the Republic of China emblem on it as American and Chinese officers walk past it. Officers get in a jeep and drive away. Direction sign in Chinese and English. Chinese military police on guard.
Sergeant Cotner talks to Chinese mechanics during assembling of Nike missile in Taiwan.
The first Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. U.S. Army Sergeant Gordon A. Cotner talks to members of Chinese assembly team during break period. Chinese mechanics eat as they talk to the Sergeant. Various U.S. Army officers and Chinese mechanics. Nike-Hercules missile being readied for flight test by Chinese assembly team. U.S. advisors watch and evaluate the work. Chief Warrant Officer Michael F. Feehley and John K. Langford Jr. discuss the results. Sergeant Fu looks on. CWO Langford checks out testing progress with Republic of China Army 1st Lieutenant Wang Mu-Shan and Sergeant First Class Chih Meng-Ping. Chief of Guided Missile Advisory team Lieutenant Colonel William H. Deadwyler discusses problems with 1st Lieutenant Wang.
Nike missiles being launched as Chinese officers look on in Taiwan.
The first Nike-Hercules missile service by the Republic of China (ROC) Army in Taiwan. The Presidential Office Building (No. 122, Sec. 1, Chongqing S. Rd., Zhongzheng District Taipei City 100006, Taiwan) in Taipei, Taiwan. Cars being parked outside the building. Pedicabs being driven on a road. Chinese officers seated in chairs to watch the Nike missile launch. Two Nike missiles in a raised position ready to be fired. One missile lifts off and leaves behind a fiery flare. Another Nike missile being launched and it lifts off.
Former President Dwight D Eisenhower and Chinese Vice President Chen Cheng meet in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower meets the Vice President of the Republic of China and military leader Chen Cheng. View of Eisenhower's office at his residence (1195 Baltimore Pike Gettysburg, PA 17325) in Gettysburg. Former President Dwight D Eisenhower and Chinese Vice President Chen Cheng pose in front of the house. Cheng waves and joins Eisenhower inside the house. Cheng in discussion with Eisenhower and others. Photographers click photos. Cheng reads and signs some papers and others watch him. People with umbrellas watch Eisenhower come with Cheng. they have umbrella held by Vice President Cheng. Eisenhower enters car and driver takes umbrella from Cheng.
Celebrities gather for the premier of Universal International's 'Flower Drum Song' in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
The premier of Universal International's movie Flower Drum Song in Los Angeles. A large number of Hollywood celebrities gather for the premier of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical at the Warner Theater. Celebrities include stars Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta. Ralph Hunter, Janet Leigh, and Lana Turner are also in attendance. The premiere event then moves to an event in China Town, which is lit in Neon.
Views of China and Japan in the period leading up to the 2nd Sino-Japanese war
Film opens with outline map of Japan shown in contrast to 20 times larger China and figures representing China's 6 times greater population. Map of China is shown in pieces representing its numerous internal fiefdoms. In contrast, Japanese soldiers are shown marching in review before their singular leader, Emperor Hirohito and other national military leaders. Film shows contrasting 20th century characteristics of China and Japan. Sun Yat-sen, who figured prominently in post-Imperial China, and is considered the founding father of the Republic of China, is shown speaking to crowds. Narrator states that in 1911, this man fathered a peoples' revolution which brought to an end, China's ancient Imperial government. View of Chinese people marching and carrying flags and banners. Books are shown comparing China's Sun Yat-sen to America's George Washingon. Sun Yat-sen's political statement, shown in Chinese, contains words similar those in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address. View of schools and colleges built in the new Republic of China. Chinese students shown in libraries. A couple dining in a Chinese hotel restaurant, overlooking other buildings. A tall clock tower looms at the same height outside their window. Steel being erected for a tall building. Architects at work. Scientist looking through a microscope. Technicians at work in a chemistry laboratory. Medical staff and patients in a modern hospital. Children in school under compulsory education program. Chinese people exercising their freedoms of expression and religion. The funeral of Sun Yat-sen, in 1925, attended by his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, and other Chinese leaders in military uniforms. Chinese people attending an outdoor ceremony. Examples of areas needing modernisation. Chinese workers using manually operated machinery to process fabrics. Commercial vessel plying a river using wind and sail only. Views of steam locomotives and trains being introduced to link parts of China. Trucks moving goods over roads (still unpaved). Miners working in open air mines, digging coal and iron. Molten tin being poured from a crucible. Machines performing complex tasks in a fabric mill and women tending spinning and knitting machines. School children engaged in collective outdoor games and exercise drills. Scene shifts to Japan, where Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse, leads military leaders in reviewing Japanese forces. A formation of Japanese Model 97 medium tanks passing in review, with tank commanders saluting from their turrets. Glimpse of Japanese steel mill. Headline in World-Telegram newspaper of 14 february, 1934, reads: "Tokyo House Passes Huge Arms Budget." A Los Angeles newspaper of 23 November, 1934, expands on the same story. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, 5, May, 1936, reports that Japan is strained by its huge arms costs.
