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1955 - World Events: USA - Formosa Protection Agreement; Tachen Islands; USSR Party Heads

Reel Number: 280103-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1955,1950s

Country: China,Nationalist China,Russia,Taiwan,USA,USSR

Location: Formosa,Moscow,Quemoy,Tachen Islands,Taiwan Strait

TC Begins: 05:34:03

TC Ends: 05:39:44

Duration: 00:05:41

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1955 - World Events: USA - Formosa Protection Agreement; Tachen Islands; USSR Party Heads Turning globe, intertitle over: The World In The Camera - Formosa. 05:34:13 Illustrated map w/ China, Korea, Japan & move in on Formosa. 05:34:22 Small navy ship of 7th Fleet / Seventh Fleet thru heavy seas w/ refueling of aircraft carrier; patrol planes taking off from carrier deck w/ jet fighters parked. POV from patrol plane taking off; formation in flight. 05:34:53 American officer training Nationalist China army, tanks across training ground & attacking mock viliage, explosions. 05:35:10 29Jan55. President Eisenhower at desk signing Congressional Resolution to protect Formosa w/ Congressmen & other VIPs watching. 05:35:17 NYC United Nations Security Council w/ MCU USSR delegate Arkady Sobolev & Henry Cabot Lodge. 05:35:30 CU slogan on truck: From USA For Mutual Defense on shield. Fighter jet w/ Nationalist symbol spray painted w/ stencil on fuselage. Anchored Formosa Navy ships; at sea w/ 7th Fleet training w/ anti-aircraft guns & ships guns during gunnery practice. 05:35:55 Nationalist Chinese soldiers on sentry duty on Quemoy; town street scene w/ military & civilians in front of shops. Soldiers hurry, manning artillery (brief). 05:36:17 7th Fleet evacuating Tachen Islands w/ landing craft & helicopters. Native women looking out from hillside caves / shelters & eating. CUs children, women; MS refugees helped along muddy hillside; lines to beach w/ belongings, boarding landing craft & helped by MPs. POV onboard to Navy APA, high angle / HA of people in large landing craft w/ press photographer in middle. Children & others lifted aboard. 05:37:52 Military evacuating military troops, supplies, artillery & trucks. National Chinese troops marching from Tachen hills. US demolition troops dynamiting caves, explosions along coastline. 05:38:48 Intertitle: The Fall Of Malenkov. Casket carried by Communist party leaders at state funeral. Line of VIPs including Molotov & Beria. CU Malenkov; MS w/ Beria & Stalin 05:39:11 LS Bolshoi interior. MLS Khrushchev leading, Malenkov & other Communist Party VIPs to stage. MS Khrushchev reading w/ Malenkov sitting nearby; Bulganin in army coat voting; Elected Premier Bulganin standing in rear of open car moving past troops. High angle / HA large parade w/ banners thru Red Square (brief). Cold War; Diplomats; Diplomacy; Evacuation; Communist Power Struggle; Communism; NOTE: One continuous minute 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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