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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221050-15
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1954
Country: Japan
Location:
TC Begins: 21:13:44
TC Ends: 21:20:52
Duration: 00:07:08
Japanese Workers At US Aircraft Plant - Buddhist Blessing Ceremony Group of Japanese men walk across open ground on US military airfield, trees blowing in wind; CU men have hands washed. VS Buddhist monks perform blessing? ceremony at small shrine in enclosure next to hangar watched by small groups of Japanese officials and US Air Force personnel; Japanese man breaks ceremonial pile of soil w/ pickaxe, bows to monk; US officer presented w/ garland by monk. Japanese men leave enclosure. 21:15:50 AV airfield. INT hangar - construction work on USAF bombers. Japanese kitchen staff prepare meals for workers; Japanese men queuing for food; VS huge canteen - Japanese men and women eating. 21:17:53 Sign on door ‘Air Force Detachment’; Japanese man in office discussing plans w/ US serviceman. Good shots of Japanese workers assembling aircraft parts inside hangar - painting, welding, sanding etc. Japanese workers leaving plant gate, buses waiting; workers arriving at plant. USAF personnel giving instruction to Japanese workers.