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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.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069925
Tainan, Formosa (Taiwan) under Japanese colonial administration.

Views of Tainan, Taiwan under Japanese colonial administration. Steam locomotive pulling train, glides into railroad station in Tainan, Taiwan. People on platform near another track, step down and cross it to board from trackside, as others board from proper platform. Next is shown the front of the train station, in old town square. Palm trees grow in grass area. Pedestrians, a few vehicles, and a man pulling a cart are seen. Scene shifts to wide street with multistory buildings having shops on the ground floor. A woman pushes a baby in a carriage. A man pulls a wagon piled high with some kind of commercial product. Scene shifts to the Japanese Tainan shrine. Next a scenic park and lake are seen with a family dressed as Japanese, walking on the lawn. Another park-like scene shows a couple in Japanese attire, with their child, accompanied by two other similarly dressed women. Closeup of Taiwanese pottery items. A stone sculpture of a horse. View of the the Taiwan Confucius Temple aka the Scholarly Temple. Ruins of old Dutch Fort Zeelandia in Anping, Tainan, with ancient gun barrels layed out on porch floor. A tree is growing through the stone floor. Several sampans are seen being skillfully rowed in the water by boatmen in conical straw hats. Closeups of wooden boat sterns decorated with paintings. Children running along the waterfront past docked sampans. Views of memorial stones in the Anping cemetery. Workers skiming salt from evaporation ponds and placing containers of salt on small open rail cars. Closeup of containers that workers use to transport salt. Closups of rock salt. Views from moving railroad train moving across landscape. View from rear of speeding train, showing long straight track behind.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069931
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler moving through the streets in Munich, Germany.

Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. The Friedensengel monument in Munich. German soldiers try to control the crowd on a road. View of the German flags. The soldiers standing in front of the crowd. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler moving on a path followed by military officers and officials. People waving swastika flags. Large crowds along city streets. The officials moving in an open carriage through the streets. People gathered on sides of roads in front of buildings. The officials arrive in front of a building. Prime Minister Mussolini waves to the people. A large crowd cheers and waves. Chancellor Hitler and Prime Minister Mussolini stand in the balcony of the building. Military officers waving to the leaders. View of the people waving. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070103
Black students conduct various scientific experiments at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans.

Education for African American college students at Xavier University of Louisiana (1 Drexel Dr, New Orleans, LA 70125, United States), America's only Roman Catholic college for African Americans, in New Orleans, Louisiana. African American students work in a chemistry laboratory. A student pours a chemical into a flask with a chemical apparatus. A student looks at a test tube. The students work in a physics laboratory. A Physics professor assists the students. A student weighs a chemical on a weighing balance. A student uses a microscope. One student fills a pipette with a chemical. Another one uses a modern equipment. A student looks at a slide through the microscope. One student dissects a cat in a biology laboratory.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070514
The library provides a place for study and the Music Department teaches music to students at Xavier University in New Orleans.

Education for African American college students at Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth in New Orleans, Louisiana. Students in a library: They read books for study and research. They deposit the books to the librarian. In the Department of Music: the students learn music. A teacher teaches them and plays a piano. The choir students sing.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070515
Students sketch on canvases resting on easels in the Department of Fine Arts at Xavier University in New Orleans.

Education for African American students at the Xavier University of Louisiana (1 Drexel Dr, New Orleans, LA 70125, United States), a Catholic university for African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Black students create paintings on canvases resting on easels in the Department of Fine Arts. Students are using Catholic paintings and sculptures as subjects. A black student sketching a portrait of Jesus Christ. Students honing their artistic skills. Two students making a sketch of an angel statuette. Male black students sketching some clay pots. An arts teacher sketches on a canvas to teach a student. Arts teacher demonstrates strokes on the side of the canvas. One student paint a portrait of a black female model. Female model smiles.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070516