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”.
Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
Opening Slate “Houseless vets take over hotel”. View of Hotel Vancouver (The Pacific Centre and TD Tower Vancouver stands on the site today. 700 and 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) after the end of World War II. Banner says “ACTION AT LAST VETERANS! ROOMS FOR YOU! Come and Get Them”. A Canadian serviceman, sitting in the information desk, points to his right to a veteran. Men and women line up to register. A white sign says “Please! Register Here”. A Canadian veteran speaks to a woman holding a baby. Canadian veterans lining up. Canadian veteran speaks to a hotel personnel behind the front desk. Veterans, neatly dressed in coats and neckties, pose together. Veterans and their wives have breakfast together. A veteran and his wife read a “Month” magazine together as they sit in a mattress on the floor. Veteran reads a book and smiles as he lies on his side in bed.