Animation depicts the resources and the strategic position of the Philippines during World War II. Animated map show many islands like Borneo and Java near to the Philippines. It also depicts the benefits for Japan on invading the Philippines. The abundance of oil, copper, coal and a large population in the area. Large crowd of Filipino working men wearing hard hats in an industrial or port area. Battleships underway at sea. Large crowd of Filipino people holding lighted candles march on a street at night during a ceremony.
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.
Part of a 1944 film showing scenes of Filipino people circa 1940, before World War 2. At opening, Filipino women are seen walking alongside a row of factory buildings. A factory room filled with Filipino women dressed in white caps and white uniforms engaged in production at individual individual work stations in a factory. A machine shop filled with Filipino men engaged in metal work. Several people at the window of an office, conducting business with a woman inside. A stock or commodities market office with quotes on tote boards. Women working alongside a moving production line. A woman operating a fabric processing machine. Filipino miners pushing hopper cars of mined ore across a bridge. Miners riding on an engine pulling a train of hopper cars filled with ore from a mine. Filipino longshoremen handling cargoes on a wharf. Scene shifts to an open field where a number of Filipino men are being trained to use firearms during World War 2. One is being coached by an American soldier as he works with a Browning M 1917 water cooled machine gun. Lines of Filipino men firing rifles under supervision of U.S Army trainers. A contingent of uniformed Filipino soldiers, led by an American soldier, marches past a sign, in an camp of tents, reading "A-T Company, 1st Filipino Infantry." Filipino soldiers at a tent camp, being instructed by an American soldier, using a large set of maps. Camera pans over a camp of many tents laid out in order. A formation of Filipino soldiers marches between tents. An American soldier opening his foot locker at his quarters. An illustrated portrait of General Douglas MacArthur. A formation in a field with a Filipino band playing and a Color Guard carrying the American and Filipino flags. A large group of Filipino children walking along a path. A Filipino boy lying on the floor in his home, reading a large book. Filipino school girls seated at benches next to tables. Women doing laundry at an outdoor pond. Next, an actor in khaki clothing sits in a tent and speaks as if addressing American soldiers regarding the Philippines. Among other things, he says,"These people aren't natives. They aren't beggars. They have cities and farms and industries.They have schools and courts and a Constitution. They also have pride and patriotism and self-respect. They love freedom They'll die for it." He cautions American soldiers about their behavior vis-a-vis Filipinos. He states that "Filipinos are American." He alludes to messages received from American and Filipino defenders in Fort Mills, at the fall of Corregidor on May 5, 1942. View of radio towers and worker in radio studio. Morse code messages heard as an American army radio operator with a headset transcribes the messages. Scene shifts to an amphibious invasion fleet attacking a Japanese held island in the Pacific.
The invasion of the Philippines Islands by Japanese occupying troops during World War II. Map shows Manila and surrounding area in Central Luzon. Truckloads of Japanese troops passing on a street. They pass the ruins of San Fernando, Pampanga. Belltower of Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando (Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando, Consunji street corner General Hizon street, San Fernando City, Pampanga). A horse-cart Kalesa on the street. A woman gets off from the Kalesa. A sign in a Japanese market reads: 'Army wants to buy pigs, fish, vegetables and chickens. For sale rice, sugar, salt, soap, cigarettes. Transactions with Japanese money'. Filipino women buy and sell vegetables and fruits at the Japanese market. View of bananas and corn for sale in the market. Japanese soldiers distribute English language newspaper 'The Tribune'. A Filipino woman reads the newspaper. Filipino workmen construct a building for the Japanese Army. Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma appears with staff. General Homma poses with other officials in front of Lazatin House (523 Consunji St, San Fernando, 2000 Consunji St, San Fernando, 2000 Pampanga).
Scenes in Japanese occupied Philippines in World War 2. Smoke rises as soldiers fire artillery in Corregidor. A tent with Japanese officials seated at a table. A bald Japanese officer writes on the table. An officer peers through a range finder. An officer discusses a table map with the soldiers. Soldiers dutifully take notes during the meeting. Mitsubishi Ki-21 “Sally” bombers fly in formation overhead and bomb Corregidor Island. The soldiers fire artillery.
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