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1950s - Republic of China: Miracle of Free China Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 250219-07-P1

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952,1950s

Country: Republic Of China,Taiwan,USA

Location: Formosa,Taipei,Taiwan

TC Begins: 10:45:10

TC Ends: 10:59:36

Duration: 00:14:26

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles (Chinese) Pt. 1 of 2 10:45:27 Aerials over Asian port city & coastline. Tilt down canyon to General & Madame Chiang Kai-Shek walking across narrow suspended bridge, off bridge smiling. 10:46:32 Chinese manual laborers working on rocks & road surface by hand; pan to show road carved into cliff w/ tunnels, many workers; MCU pounding rods w/ sledge hammers. General & Madam walk leading long motorcade. Into car at tunnel entrance. 10:47:46 Construction sheds & pan to dam w/ partially filled reservoir; power lines; cable cars of rubble; men riding large bucket w/ concrete for dam. CU of spillway. 10:48:33 Aerial over smog covered city. Street w/ many signs & shops, Int. of fabric shop. Ext street scene w/ pedestrians & large movie posters advertising The Brave One. 10:49:02 Chinese women w/ tight slit dresses into rickshaws & pedaled thru city. 10:49:24 Buddhist monks entering temple past Nationalist China flags. Interior w/ incense & in line, praying & ceremony. CUs. 10:50:26 CU Buddhist statue; monks w/ bells. Tilt down exterior & procession leaving. 10:50:53 High angle of large college buildings w/ park in front. Students sitting w/ books on steps. 10:51:21 Two women in large circle w/ organ player leading young children in songs, clapping. Kids run into school. Leaving & into small rickshaw buses, pedaled away, waving. Thru streets. 10:52:26 Pan across harbor views w/ ships anchored, at dock view of men on deck. 10:53:00 MCU two men looking at plans / blueprints & pointing. 10:53:05 Men at drop hammer forge working steel bar; men welding on ship hull, LS & CU. Ship in large drydock & men turning large wheel allowing water into dock to float ship. 10:53:50 Taiwan street scenes, vendor pulling filled car. Interior of factory w/ overhead crane moving rolls of aluminum . Men at controls of rolling machine. Men carrying fabricated metal window parts. 10:54:49 Tilt down refinery towers; Sign: Hermofor Catalytic Cracking Unit; man moving valve, steam out of chimney. 10:55:21 Men lifting panels in place for multi-story building; laborers, bricklayers; couple looking at plan,kids playing in new yard w/ movie camera & crew filming. 10:56:19 Railroad flat cars loaded w/ bundles to factory; men pulling? onto conveyor. Very large factory making pulp or plywood or ?? 10:57:09 Men at furnace smelting; pushing iron bars on wagon. Large scrapyard / wrecking yard of war materials, car radios, etc. Row of men carrying long railroad rails & stacking by hand. Pipe factory or ?? 10:58:32 Man demonstrating rototiller to farmers in rice paddy. Tilling next to ox pulling pulling hand plow; CU farmer inspecting controls, smiling. 10:58:56 Sign (Chinese), pan to show US AID / Marshall Plan handshake symbol & sign in English; Taiwan Fertilizer Co. Factory No. 6 (Urea Plant) w/ list of suppliers (illegible). High angle LS across very large plant towers, ground level w/ men walking among pipes & valves. Large storage tank, steel roof under construction. Continued... Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Nationalist China Development; Asian Development; 1950s; 1952; Foreign Aid; Dictator; Agriculture; Industries; Cold War; Republic of China; NOTE: any continuous 15 minutes of entire film (10:45:10 - 11:13:49) on two cards sold at per reel rate. Very good quality & action. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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