Chinese military band play during the 44th founding anniversary of the Republic of China in Taipei, Taiwan. Chinese flag waves. Sailors in attention near the U.S. flag. Navy officers. Soldier women and people. A man stands in aircraft. Children see parade. People see inside artillery. A boy makes faces.
Chinese officer salute during the 44th founding anniversary of the Republic of China in Taipei, Taiwan. Dignitaries stand at stage. Military photographer clicks. American dignitary leave Presidential mansion. Soldiers run. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek addresses soldiers. Military officer with a video camera shoots a Navy band marching. Dignitaries in stand. Military and other photographers click photos of soldiers with flag in a jeep.
Newsreel 'News in brief, Formosa'. Typhoon Ellen caused urban flooding in southern and central Formosa (Taiwan). Taiwanese civilians inspect damage and piles of debris from typhoon. Flooded areas and damaged buildings seen. Relief work and rescue work in progress. Native people seen. Several men wear local Taiwanese hats. Pedicabs seen on street.
An express train in Formosa, Taiwan. Formosan girls sit around a table during a tea ceremony. The girls walk over a bridge and through a garden. A Formosan girl stands holding a flower. She puts the flower in a running stream. A close up of the Formosan girl. The girls on the bridge look at a boat in the stream. An express train moves on tracks. People seated inside the train. A parlor car of the train. Passengers look at countryside. The train moves past a railroad station and Formosan countryside. Animated map of train route from Taihoku to Taichou.
Activities of Formosan women in Formosa, Taiwan. A railroad station. Women wash clothes in a stream. A car drives on a bridge. Natives carry umbrellas and walk in a garden. They cross a bridge. A fountain and a building in the background. The Formosan stand in a balcony. A Formosan woman and a young girl swing. The Agricultural Inspection Center for fruit grown on the island. A man carries a basket. Ducks in front of a house. Workmen dry rice. Water buffaloes wade in a stream. Birds on a tree. Men seated in a grassy area. A young boy with a hat with his buffalo. Women make baskets and straw hats. Hands weaving straw hats.
Activities of men at a saw mill in Formosa, Taiwan. A railroad bridge. A train proceeds southward. A bus drives on a dirt road. A view of the countryside from the train. The train moves past a railroad station. A bus drives past a building. A car drives on a street. Huge logs are moved using an overhead trolley in a lumber yard. A trolley carries a wooden log and drops the log in a river. A log kept on a conveyor belt in a saw mill. Men at work in the mill. A man stencil boards of lumber.