A film about events leading up to the independence of the Philippines and the life of people thereafter. Traffic in Escolta business district in Manila, Philippines. San Sebastian Cathedral (Pasaje del Carmen St, Quiapo, Manila, 1001 Metro Manila) in Quiapo district, Manila. Huts in a village. Men work in a paddy field. A Filipino landowner with his family. Farmers plow a field with the aid of carabao buffalo or ox drawn plow. Cane sugar loaded on a railroad car being transported. Filipinos work on cane in a field. Filipino farmers work in an abaca field to obtain Manila hemp or abaca. Abaca being processed to obtain hemp. A rope being made from abaca hemp in a factory. The rope being rolled out of the factory. Ores of chromite and gold being transported in containers. Workers at a gold mine. People at the Manila Stock Exchange. Exports being loaded onto merchant ships at a port.
A film about events leading up to the independence of the Philippines. Filipino people milling about on streets after the end of World War II. People lined up to get food supplies. A sign reads 'Concor enrollment center'. Civilians being enrolled for reconstruction work after the end of World War II. The civilians work at reconstruction sites like railway tracks.
A film about events leading up to the independence of the Philippines. A boat underway off the coast of Manila Bay, Manila, Philippines. A diver puts on a mask aboard the boat. The diver being lowered into the water to search for coins part of the Philippine Commonwealth treasury before World War II. The diver underwater. A heap of Commonwealth period Philippine Peso coins.
A film about events leading up to the independence of the Philippines after World War II. Filipinos lined up at a bank. People transact at a counter. The bank teller holding wads of cash at the counter. Debris spread across an area. People work at a construction site. The Tydings Committee on Filipino economic affairs consult with Filipino leaders. Civilians at a political rally as a man addresses them. Filipino citizens lined up to cast their votes during the presidential elections. Manuel Roxas seated with officials after being elected as the President. Filipinos cross a bridge. A Filipino couple having rice for dinner together. An elderly Filipino woman cooks from a claypot or palayok. A child reads a book.
Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.
An American serviceman and his British wife look at their crying daughter on the right reuniting after World War II. Husbands and wives with their babies posing happily together. A British woman, part of the War Brides who arrived on the SS Argentina to reunite with their American servicemen husbands, is in a podium with her American serviceman husband, who is holding their baby. The British woman speaks about some societal disapproval of foreign marriages like hers and said, “Love is love, all over the world”. Reflecting the postwar ethos, the American serviceman adds, “This is a beginning of a new life for me”.
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