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1953 - World Events: Military Aid to Formosa; Chiang Kai-Shek; German Refugees; Dulles To Rome; 300th Anniversary of New Amsterdam; Pompeii

Reel Number: 250157-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1953,1950s

Country: Italy,Netherlands,Republic Of China,Taiwan,USA

Location: Formosa,New York City,Pompeii,Rome,Taipai,Taiwan

TC Begins: 02:02:03

TC Ends: 02:06:14

Duration: 00:04:11

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1953 - World Events: Military Aid to Formosa; Chiang Kai-Shek; German Refugees; Dulles To Rome; 300th Anniversary of New Amsterdam; Pompeii Intertitle: Formosa - Chiang Army Trains For Mainland Attack. 02:02:37 MLS aircraft carrier USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) w/ deck filled w/ P-47 fighter planes protectively wrapped. 02:02:45 MCU General William C. Chase & General Wang Sheng look at planes. Markings of US Navy Plane on one. Crane lifting off ship. High angle / HA LS of very large crowd in Taipai waiting for parade. 02:03:10 Open car w/ Chiang Kai-Shek standing & officers seated leading large motorcade past saluting Nationalist troops; troops raise arms in cheer. MLS of US & Nationalist China flags on rooftop poles. Military equipment & soldiers in parade. 02:03:37 MCU of Chiang saluting from lectern. Marching troops. 02:03:47 Intertitle: News In Brief. Group of mostly men; MS over heads of women, children & men w/ some police helmets seen in crowd of refugees from East Berlin. MCU. 02:04:08 Clock, picture, candle & Christ on Cross, women & men in refugee camp / center, overhead clothes drying on line; baby in rocking bassinet; people sitting on floor writing, mending & cleaning clothes. 02:04:29 Intertitle: Italy. US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, followed by Harold Stassen, down steps of US military plane / MATS in Rome on first day of nine day European tour & greeted by Premier Alcide De Gasperi, cameramen. 02:04:43 High angle / HA reviewing troops. 02:04:57 Intertitle: New York City. Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands / Holland shakes hands, walks w/ priest into St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery for service marking 300th Anniversary of founding of New Amsterdam as a Dutch City in 1653. Exterior of church; plaques & statues. 02:05:34 Intertitle: Italy. Workmen w/ picks, shovels working & carrying rubble while unearthing Pompeii. 02:05:41 Man brushing away dust from calcified body. 02:05:49 Tourists / visitors walking in plaza w/ ruins & Vesuvius in background; walk along street & sidewalks in front of stone building fronts. Couple looking at Latin writing on wall. Columns polished. Cold War; Anti-Communism; NATO Diplomacy; History; Archaeology; Volcano Aftermath; 1950s Tourism; NOTE: Eisenhower lifted 7th Fleet blockade on Taipai / Formosa 02Sep53. Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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