Exterior view of the original McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Cars and people outside the terminal. Electric waves being depicted by an animation of a strong man sending waves of electricity out from the fingers of his hands. A railroad train enters an electrified tunnel. Another train comes out of a tunnel of the electrified Hudson and East River tubes. A train pulls up at the Bryn Mawr station on the fully electrified Philadelphia-Paoli route.
Filipinos study the Japanese language during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines in World War 2. Title card reads “Ang pagsisimula ng bagong Filipinas sa paga-aral ng wikang Hapon” (“The start of a new Philippines through learning the Japanese language” in English). A Japanese flag is displayed on a tall flagpole. Elementary schoolchildren performing physical exercises in front of a teacher playing a small piano. Schoolchildren form a circle around the teacher while dancing and singing. Schoolchildren enter school. Schoolchildren playing in the yard. Three Filipino boys sitting. A group of Filipino children sitting. Students crowd a school corridor. Children listen attentively to a teacher. A teacher writes in Japanese on a blackboard. Sign reads “Japan Cultural Hall Entrance- 219”. Young Filipino men and women attend a class in Nihongo (Japanese language). A Nihongo teacher teaches Japanese to Filipino adult students in a Japanese cultural center in Manila.
A Japanese propaganda film on mistreatment of Filipinos by the United States. Filipino soldiers join the U.S. in battle against the Japanese in Manila, Philippines during World War II. Fighting at a battlefield. Explosions and smoke on the battlefield. A soldier sitting and another standing near him. They talk. The soldier who is standing walks away and talks to the one sitting. He comes back and sits down. Another soldier approaches and says something. The two soldiers smile. He gives them a news. They become sad. They salute. One of the soldiers is ordered to join the C Company, 1st Battalion. He bids goodbye and leaves. Soldiers in prone position. The soldier standing near them. A white flag is raised by the enemy. Soldiers crouch forward. An explosion occurs. The soldiers run.
United States Army engineers and troops construct a pontoon bridge in Manila, Philippines during World War II. A pontoon bridge across a river. Engineers inspect the bridge. The original bridge wrecked by the Japanese in the background. The engineers work on the bridge. They tie ropes on the new bridge over Pasig River. Filipino civilians waving and standing along the shore. Damaged buildings. Truckloads of troops cross the bridge. The Filipino civilians wave at them.
A film on the campaign of Allied forces in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Animated map shows several places and invasion by the British and American forces. Aerial view of a town. Smoke rises from bombardment and firing. Soldiers fire guns on a battlefield. Rubbed buildings in an area. Soldiers aboard jeeps moving along a town. Animated map shows the invaded areas. Aerial view of cars moving along a street. Smoke rises from an explosion. Soldiers stand near a gun. Burning and wrecked equipment. An observation airplane in flight overhead. Soldiers fire anti aircraft guns and other guns. Smoke rises from the firing. A sea shore. Soldiers advance along an area. Wrecked and abandoned enemy vehicles and equipment. Soldiers aboard a landing craft underway. Other soldiers advance along a city. Some of the soldiers seated in a jeep moving along an area. Aerial view of buildings and houses. Allied Military Government agents distribute rations and supervise medical care. Officers seated at a desk discuss. Civilians walk along a street and gather in an area. Soldiers and medics work. Doctors examine civilians. Banks reopen and a new financial system is established. Men read newspapers. Troops stand at attention in formation. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reviews troops.
“Operation New Arrivals,” in 1975, at Eglin Air Force Base Vietnamese Refugee Center. Opening scene shows closeup of a clown in costume, standing among some Vietnamese refugee children who are gathered outdoors at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Closeup of two boys sitting on folding metal chairs, eating ice cream popsicles. Many more closeups of children eating their popsicles. Next the children are seen seated in chairs, applauding for some kind of entertainment. Camera then shows the aforementioned clown, in front of the children, shaking hands with some of them. He then fashions some balloons into the shape of a bunny rabbit and gives it to a small child.
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