View of Argao Church (San Miguel Arcangel Parish Church, Poblacion, Argao, Cebu 6021 Philippines) in Argao, Cebu, Philippines. Exteriors and stone tower of Argao Church, erroneously identified as the location of the first church service in Cebu.
Natives of the Philippines. Exteriors of a newly built government hospital in Bontoc, Philippines. Filipino patients lying in beds at the hospital. Nurses and doctors in background Nurses look after the patients who receive free medical care.
The Philippine Operations in Leyte, Philippines. United States 3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment troops advance in landing crafts. The landing crafts are en route to Red Beach. The ships bombard a shoreline. A wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher. (World War II period).
The inauguration of Republic of the Philippines after the end of World War II. Crowds at the Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument) with the American and Philippine flags on tall flag poles in Rizal Park (Luneta Park), Manila. A child stands at a barbed wire fence. U.S. Color Guard carry a U.S. flag. Crowds at a ceremony. Filipino women wearing traditional Baro’t Saya and Maria Clara dresses are seen at the ceremony.
Inauguration of Republic of the Philippines after the end of World War II. Crowds at barricades across the Rizal Monument in Luneta Park. U.S. Senator Millard E Tydings arrives at grandstand. General of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur shakes hands with Robert Finnegan. Tydings and others in grandstand. President of Republic of Philippines Manuel Roxas shake hands with General Macarthur. Prelate makes invocations. Senator Tydings speaks. Crowds in stand. MacArthur makes a speech. U.S. ambassador Paul V. McNutt speaks. Crowds standing in rain. McNutt lowers U.S. flag from staff. MacArthur speaks to Hannegan and turns around and laughs. President Roxas speaks and takes an oath.
Film begins showing interior of the Stock Exchange in Manila, Philippines. Filipino and American traders in white shirts bid and sell in the Manila Stock Exchange, located in the business district of Escolta (Philippine National Bank Building-Escolta Escolta St Binondo, Manila 1006 Metro Manila). Traders talk with phones. On the sugar board, brokers continue to conduct general buy and sell activities. Sign says 'Manila Stock Exchange'.
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