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Rugged mountain scenery in Taiwan, filmed during Japanese colonial period.
Opening scene shows a sign, identifying location as Arisan, Formosa. Camera pans over houses of the village amongst trees, in rugged mountainous terrain. Closeup of the Japanese Arisan Shrine, in the Kagi district. A monument located there. Views of building and signs directing visitors. Several wooden buildings with signs. A sign identifying Chamaecyparis formosensis (Formosan Cypress tree). Camera pans to a huge cypress tree encircled with a decorative rope and markers measuring its girth. Several other trees are shown. A couple sits in a shelter at an outlook enjoying the high mountain views. Camera shows various mountain views. A sign identifies Tozan (aka Mount Niitaka) and camera pans this dramatic mountain.
Chinese New Year parade in Taipei under Japanese occupation (WW2)
Taiwanese people attend a Chinese New Year festival parade in Taipei, Formosa (present day Taipei, Taiwan) during Japanese colonial rule in World War II. A busy street. Crowds convene on the sidewalk to watch a festival. A Japanese ice cream shop behind crowds. A group of men perform a serpentine-like dragon dance. A man performs acrobatics in front of a group performing a lion dance. Man performs lion dance. A boy pushes an artillery gun. A man with a papier-mâché donkey costume. Signs and banners depicting Chinese products such as Tiger Balm ointment. Chinese women dressed in elaborate traditional costumes on top of floats. Men carry an intricate model of a pagoda. A float of a symbolic god. People performing dance in the parade. The Taiwanese people watch the parade. A policeman stands in the foreground. People on the streets and decorative floats in the parade.
Chinese Nationalist troops fire rifles as Chiang Kai Shek watches them during a maneuver in Formosa.
Chinese Nationalist troops during a maneuver in Formosa. Chinese ships underway at sea. Explosions occur in water. Aircraft in flight. Tanks and tracked vehicles at a beach. The troops practice amphibious landings at the beach. President of China Chiang Kai Shek watches the maneuvers. Chinese soldiers fire rifles. A soldier talks over a hand radio as explosions occur.
United States and Chinese delegates meet in Geneva, Switzerland to resolve the Far East tension.
Newsreel "East -West Parley: U.S. and Red China confer in Geneva." Chinese delegation headed by Chinese Ambassador to Poland, Wang Bingnan, arrives for discussion with American representatives headed by Alexis Johnson, in Geneva. They discuss measures to ease tensions between the parties. The U.S. group agrees to seek a renunciation of the use of force in the settlement of Formosa (Taiwan), and the repatriation of civilian prisoners. Ambassador Wang announces the release of 11 American fliers. After the meeting, a Chinese interpreter reads out Wang's message to the press in English.
Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific after explosion of TBF Avenger on deck
Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Western Pacific Ocean off the coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Sailors direct fire hoses on a burning TBF Avenger and hole in the flight deck. The TBF Avenger had returned from a sortie, landed on the deck, taxied near the island and then exploded. 50 sailors were killed and 75 injured. Corpsmen carry wounded man on stretcher across flight deck. (World War II period).
Bodies committed to ocean and Marine rifle salute in mass funeral ceremony aboard USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean.
Mass funeral aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean. Bodies committed to ocean in Mass Funeral Ceremony. Multiple crews of six men each carry dead sailors, wrap each in the U.S. flag, place them on a board and tip them into the ocean. Marines fire rifle salute. View of sheet covered bodies on lower deck awaiting burial at sea. The 50 men were killed in a January 21, 1945 accident when a TBF Avenger returned from a sortie in the area of Formosa (Taiwan). It landed on the deck and taxied near the island, and then exploded killing 50 men and injuring 75. (World War II period).
