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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221716-01
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1972
Country: Japan,US
Location: Okinawa,Ryukyu Islands
TC Begins: 16:00:07
TC Ends: 16:12:14
Duration: 00:12:07
Titles Pt. 1 of 2 16:00:14 Underwater shot of fish & coral. 16:01:10 Waves on rocky coastline; pan over illustrations of legends on island settling. Abstract. Calligraphy & more illustrations of history of founding of Okinawa by settlers, domination & Japan take-over in 1800s. 16:03:41 Title. 16:03:52 Graphics w/ VO of need for US to occupy in early 1945. 16:04:06 B/W Montage of battleships firing heavy guns & stills of invasion, fighting. 16:05:00 B/W still of suicide cliffs. US flag raising; large military cemetery. 16:05:40 Still photograph: GIs treating native children. Stills of supplies stockpiled; rebuilding homes. 16:06:13 B/W film of construction of bridges, factories. 16:06:26 Color. High angle pan over Okinawa Prefecture Capital, Naha, “today”. 16:06:41 Montage: Telephoto of street & traffic, pedestrians & shopping. Signs: department store; bird shop; watch store & others in CU; Market; bank; CU hands breaking open chopsticks; signs: souvenir & gift shops, movie advertisement. Traffic & pedestrians. CU faces: old & young; businessmen; farmers; woman at typewriter; fishermen, workers - stonemason, back-hoe operator. 16:07:49 POV on pavement, truck & car traffic; oxcarts; pedestrians. 16:08:25 POV along road, thru stripmall type areas. 16:08:47 Kids playing outside school; pan across large college building; kids reading on lawn & walking on campus. 16:09:10 Power station, large chimneys. 16:09:24 Montage: waterfall; ditch / canal; aerial of large earth dam & reservoir. 16:09:47 Aerial over industrial park; ship unloading cargo crates. Docked large passenger & cargo ships. 16:10:07 People out of Naha airport under sign; people board All Nippon airliner. Fly over. 16:10:21 Buses, taxiis, trucks & cars on highway. 16:10:36 Zoom in on rooftop from above. Construction shops of various size buildings. 16:10:58 B-29 bomber in flight & view of bombs dropping; three dropping bombs during Korean War. Kadema Air Base & men loading B-29s (B/W). 16:11:23 Color Ground & aerials of Kadema AFB. Pan harbor & sign: U.S. Army Naha Military Port; Camp Kuwee Hospital; Mashinawa (?) Service Area & large stockpile of all items. Continued... Post-WWII Military Occupation;1960s (?); Okinawan Daily Life; Propaganda; NOTE 1: US occupation in Japan ended in 1952; US administration continued on Okinawa till 1972 when control reverted to Japan. NOTE 2: Any consecutive ten minutes of the two parts may be purchased at single reel rate.