French Marshal Philippe Petain in a French town in 1944 during World War II. Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets as a crowd cheers. Damaged buildings alongside a street. Petain shakes hands with civilians. Petain speaks into a microphone and addresses the crowd.
Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan during World War II in the United States. Officials of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desks and Major General Walter C. Short, U.S. Army (retired), addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. He states that he appeared for the hearing of Pearl Harbor attack in August 1944. No indication was made by the war department about the attack. No information was furnished by them. If they had furnished the information, some decisions or actions could have been taken. He talked to officials of the war time division, but no conclusions were made.
Activities of Filipino women in the Philippines shortly before World War II, from a 1944 film showing pre-war scenes. Filipino women in homes and offices. A Physical Education teacher watch a group of female Filipino students jogging in two straight lines. Faces of young Filipino women smiling. Pairs of dancers perform Filipino folk dance Cariñosa with handkerchiefs. Two women talk amongst themselves while shopping in a crockery shop. A woman stitches clothes using a sewing machine. Some of the women work in their houses. A woman practices archery. Women wearing various traditional Filipino dresses such as the Maria Clara dress of the Tagalogs and Batawi for Muslim Tausug women. Tagalog women wearing Terno dresses made of Piña or Pineapple cloth. A woman shows her Terno’s ‘Butterfly sleeves’. Filipino women working as soda fountain waitresses and Blues singers. Women doctors and nurses in a hospital. Young Filipino women and men dance the Jitterbug.
Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II (from a 1944 film showing earlier scenes). A wedding ceremony in a church in the Philippines. A Roman Catholic priest officiates a Filipino wedding. Children play with see-saw outside a traditional Bahay Kubo house. A man offers ‘ulam’ or dish to accompany with rice. Interior of a house. A Filipino woman cooks pochero, a stewpot dish. Men and women seated at a table eating food. A woman scoops rice to her plate. A man wearing a Barong Tagalog having dinner at home. Filipinos roasting ‘Lechon’ during an outdoor barbecue. Suckling pig cooked over charcoal. Filipinos enjoying barbecue dishes. People buying vegetables such as ampalaya (bitter melon) and jicamas at the wet market. Vegetable in baskets. Houses in the background. Narrator warning about food and water safety and risk of dysentery. Scene closes with wartime views in World War w of Japanese soldiers marching in the Philippines.
Sports activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II. Filipinos gather outside the Rizal Memorial Coliseum (Ocampo St, Malate, Manila, 1004 Metro Manila) in Manila, Philippines. Different sports activities of Filipino people. Filipino professional players compete during a baseball competition in Manila. Young indigenous Igorot teenagers play baseball in the Cordilleras Region. Participants swim in a pool during a swimming contest. People gather for a horse-racing contest. They watch the horses and cheer. Filipino men playing Sepak Takraw, also known as kick volleyball. Igorot men engage in amateur boxing outdoors. An American G.I. acts as a commentator during the match. Boys compete in amateur boxing. Filipino boxer Ceferino Garcia participates in a boxing contest. Billboards of American brands such as Chesterfield, Texaco, Camel and Socony to Baguio City. A gas station sign showing the distance to various cities in Northern Philippines. (Film is from 1944, showing scenes from pre-war)
Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II. A horse-drawn calesa moves through Escolta, the business district of Manila. Billboards advertise Coca-Cola in the Philippines. Activities and quiet scenes at the siesta time. Buildings along the sides of a street. Sign boards outside the buildings read: 'Good Rich' and 'Coca Cola'. A Bahay Kubo (Nipa hut) in the countryside. A horse drinks from trough. A monkey hangs on bamboo pole. A water buffalo (carabao) laze in the mud. Timber trees are felled by men for lumber. Smoke from chimneys of factories. Wooden logs are carried on railroad wagons moving on rails. People work in a sugarcane farm and harvest the sugarcane. Men with Carabaos plow in a sugarcane field. Filipino workers transport sacks of sugar into a ship. Men climb up coconut trees and pick coconuts. The coconuts are loaded into carts. A Filipino man pours out a cup filled with sap from a rubber tree. Men cut tobacco. Filipino women roll tobacco into cigars inside a cigar factory. Men harvesting and slicing abaca (also known as Manila hemp). The processing of hemp. Men shredding Manila hemp into long strands. Shredded abaca are hung outdoors to dry. A machine twines hemp. (Pre war scenes, but from a 1944 film.)
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