- Title: VM-495
- Summary: MACARTHUR'S ARRIVAL IN THE PHILIPPINES: GI CAMERAMEN RECORDS MACARTHUR'S RETURN TO PHILIPPINES. COLOR FOOTAGE OF WWII SHOWS THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF MANILA & PHILIPPINE PEOPLE COPING.
- Description:00:00:04 - VIEW OF BOW OF SHIP AS IT TRAVELS ON COEAN 00:00:08 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SITS ON BRIDGE OF WARSHIP LOOKING OUT TO SEA. 00:00:16 - GUN CREWS ON BOARD WARSHIP COMMENCE SHELLING JAPANESE POSITIONS ON PHILIPPINES PRIOR TO INVASION TO RETAKE ISLANDS. 00:00:33 - HUGE PILE OF GIANT ARTILLERY GUN SHELLS 00:00:36 - MACARTHUR & OTHER OFFICERS ON BOARD WATCH BOMBARDMENT. HUGE LIGHT FLASHES 00:00:44 - CU MACARTHUR WATCHES BOMBARDMENT WITH COTTON IN HIS EARS. 00:00:52 - PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: LEYTE 00:00:57 - AMERICAN FLAG AGAIN FLIES ON BUILDING IN LEYTE AS MACARTHUR PROMISED 00:01:12 - PAN OF ISLAND TO LARGE GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN DISTANCE 00:01:33 - CU LARGE GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN LEYTE 00:01:42 - MONTAGE U.S. ARMY TRAFFIC SLOWLY PASSING THROUGH MUDDY STREETS OF TOWN BUSY WITH PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. 00:01:52 - SIGN OVER STORE: "DAIDO BOEKI KAISYA, LTD" 00:02:09 - SIGN OVER STORE: "BARBER SHOP, BEST IN TOWN". SOLDIERS & LOCALS WALK PAST 00:02:23 - GI PHOTOGRAPHER STOPS TO BUY FROM WOMAN STREET VENDOR WHOSE DAUGHTER IS BOUNCING BALL. 00:02:33 - CU PHOTOGRAPHER BUYS JAPANESE FLAG. 00:02:42 - PEOPLE LOOKING OUT OF APARTMENT WINDOWS. 00:03:04 - GROUP OF LITTLE PHILIPPINO CHILDREN POSE FOR CAMERA. 00:03:12 - STILTED HUT WITH PHILIPPINE & U.S. FLAGS HANGING OUT WINDOW. STEADY STREAM OF GI VEHICLES PASSING BY. 00:03:36 - SIGN ON TREE: "PALO, 20 MPH" AS ARMY VEHICLES PASS 00:03:47 - HIGH ANGLE SHOT OF PALO WITH LARGE CHURCH BUILDING WITH TWO BELL TOWERS & LAKE IN FRGD 00:03:57 - PAN OVER TO BRIDGE. ARMY TRUCKS CROSS BRIDGE 00:04:04 - NATIVE WOMEN WASHING CLOTHING ON ROCKS IN RIVER 00:04:15 - HUGE STONE CHURCH BUILDING USED AS ARMY HOSPITAL 00:04:28 - INTERIOR CHURCH CONVERTED INTO ARMY HOSPITAL. INJURED MEN IN COTS WITH IV BAGS HANGING 00:04:45 - SOLDIER DIRECTING ARMY TRAFFIC AT INTERSECTION IN TOW 00:04:58 - LITTLE BOY IN MARSH CLIMBS ONTO AN OX & RIDES OFF 00:05:24 - GENERAL MACARTHUR LOOKING AT ISLAND FROM BRIDGE OF WARSHIP. 00:05:31 - U.S. & PHILIPPINE FLAGS FLY TOGETHER ON FLAG POLES 00:05:45 - PILE OF DEBRIS ON STREET OF DEVASTATED CITY. GI PICKS UP "MANILA" SIGN & HELMET & WALKS OFF DOWN STREET 00:06:01 - PAN COMPLETELY DEVASTATED CITY OF MANILA WITH HARDLY A BUILDING STANDING WHICH WASN'T DESTROYED. 00:06:43 - CIVILIANS GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS AMID RUINS. 00:07:08 - CU PHILIPPINE WOMAN SLOWLY DIGGING THROUGH RUBBLE. 00:07:24 - WOMEN & CHILDREN WASHING THEMSELVES & CLOTHING IN STREAM. 00:07:32 - ARMY TRUCKS DRIVE THROUGH CITY 00:07:47 - CU VARIOUS BUILDING IN MANILA AFTER ATTACK. 00:07:53 - SIGN: "ARMOA CAFE. RESTAURANT REFRESHMENT". CITY LIFE AS NORMAL PASSES 00:08:01 - VENDOR SELLING ICE CREAM CONES TO GIS FROM CART. 00:08:03 - GIS ON STREET CORNER EATING CONES AND CHATTING 00:08:13 - CITY LIFE, PEOPLE WALKING ON SIDEWALK 00:08:32 - TWO MEN TAMP OUT BUMPS IN SHEET OF METAL WITH WOODEN POLE IN ALVAGE ATTEMPT. 00:09:05 - SKELETON OF BUILDING BEING BUILT 00:09:09 - WORKERS HAMMERING, BUILDING 00:09:16 - GI REPAIRS WIRES ON TELEPHONE POLE. 00:09:21 - PAN DOWN TO SOLDIERS ON GROUND HELPING WITH ELECTRICITY 00:09:27 - WS OF UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS CAMPUS 00:09:35 - CU SIGN ON THE FOUNDING & HISTORY OF UNIVERSITY 00:09:47 - PEOPLE & SOLDIERS OUTSIDE LARGE UNIVERSITY BUILDING 00:09:57 - VARIOUS BULLET & SHELL HOLES ON FACADE OF UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS. 00:10:09 - VIEW OF JUNGLE HOMES NEAR CITY 00:10:17 - MONTAGE EXTRAORDINARY DAMAGE TO MANY LARGE GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS. DESTROYED CITY 00:12:26 - PEOPLE SALVAGE BUILDING MATERIALS FROM RUBBLE 00:12:41 - TWO SOLDIERS WALK ALONG STREETS OF RUBBEL 00:12:49 - MONK SADLY EXAMINES REMAINS OF CHURCH. LOOKING UP AT STATUE IN YARD 00:13:05 - MONTAGE MORE DESTRUCTION TO LARGE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS 00:13:23 - CU DESTROYED FRONT OF CITY HALL 00:14:22 - COMPLETELY DESTROYED AREA OF HOMES 00:14:39 - DESTROYED ENTRANCE GATE & SIGN FOR GOTHIC HALL COURT 00:14:54 - BURNT OUT BUILDINGS COVERED IN HOLES FROM BULLETS 00:15:50 - DESTROYED DOCKS & MARINA 00:16:13 - CU ORNATE IRON WORK WITH EAGLE SYMBOL 00:16:17 - UNHARMED ESTATE GROUNDS 00:16:37 - HUGE CROWD OF SOLDIERS GATHER ON LAWN 00:16:45 - HUGE CROWD OF PEOPLE WATCHING SONGWRITER IRVING BERLIN AT OUTDOOR SHOW. 00:16:56 - IRVING BERLIN AT MICROPHONE READING FROM PAPER 00:17:00 - CU YOUNG PHILIPINE WOMEN AT CEREMONY 00:17:12 - IRVING BERLIN SINGING INTO MICROPHONES (MOS) 00:17:24 - CROWD APPLAUDS 00:17:28 - CHILDREN PUT ON NATIVE DANCE FOR AUDIENCE. 00:17:52 - TRUCK DRIVES PAST TOWN SIGNS 00:17:55 - ARMY TRAFFIC IN FRONT OF FARMACIA SAN FERNANDO 00:18:03 - TRUCKS FILLED WITH SOLDIERS DRIVE DOWN CITY STREET 00:18:11 - BANNER READS: "WELCOME TO THE CENTRAL LUZON OFFICE OF THE PHILIPPINE CHINESEE LEAGUE FOR ANIT-JAPS & PUPPETS ON ITS THRID ANNIVERSARIES" 00:18:17 - LARGE AMERICAN RED CROSS FLAG OUTSIDE HUT 00:18:25 - GI IS GIVEN COFFEE & DOUGHNUT BY FEMALE PHILIPPINO RED CROSS WORKER. 00:18:35 - SOLDIER WITH RIFLE WALKING DOWN RURAL ROAD IN PHILIPINES 00:18:40 - CROSSROADS ROAD SIGN ON IRISAN ROAD POINT TO BAGUIO 00:18:45 - GI CAMERAMAN TAKES CAMERA OUT OF BACK OF JEEP 00:18:56 - SOLDIER CROSSES ROAD TO GET OUT OF WAY & THEM FILMS TANKS PASSING ON WAY TO THE FRONT IN PHILIPPINES. 00:19:19 - GI PATROL RETURNS FROM MOP-UP DUTY. PATROL SITS NEXT TO TANK TO REST & TREAT WOUNDS ON ONE OF ITS MEN. 00:19:29 - SOLDIERS SQUATTING ON GROUND 00:19:37 - U.S. P-38 FIGHTER FLIES OVERHEAD. STRAFES & BOMBS JAPANESE POSITIONS. 00:19:45 - SMOKE & FIRE RISES FROM HOUSE ON HILLSIDE 00:19:51 - CU TRANK DRIVES BY 00:20:03 - HIGH ANGLE GIS MOVE UP IN MOP-UP OPERATIONS. 00:20:10 - HELPING PHILIPPINE REFUGEES OUT OF THE JUNGLES UP PATH & UP HILLSIDE 00:20:23 - INJURED PERSON LIES ON MATTRESS AS SOLDIERS STAND AROUND & WATCH 00:20:36 - GI SERVES GROUP OF CHILDREN CANTEEN OF SOUP. LITTLE BOYS PASS IT AROUND. 00:20:56 - LONG COLUMN OF TANKS AND JEEPS LOADED WITH GIS MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH TO THE FRONT. 00:21:11 - SOLDIERS COME WALKING ALONG AROUND CORNER 00:21:18 - TRUCK OF SOLDIERS PASS CROSSROADS SIGN 00:21:26 - HIGH ANGLE VIEW OF TOWN IN DISTANCE. PAN DOWN TO PEOPLE COMING UP HILLSIDE 00:21:39 - GI HELPS 2 NUNS THROUGH THE WOODED AREA & UP HILL 00:21:47 - REFUGEES CARRY BELONGS DOWN HILL PATH 00:21:57 - TWO JAPANESE PRISONERS CLIMB OUT OF BUNKER AFTER SURRENDER. MOVED ALONG AT GUN POINT. 00:22:09 - PHILIPPINE MAN HOLDS UP PAPER WHICH READS "I CEASE RESISTANCE" 00:22:15 - HALF-STARVED JAPANESE PRISONER ON HIS KNEES IS QUESTIONED BY GI. 00:22:31 - PAN OF OTHER (JAPANESE PRISONERS?) SQUATTING ON GROUND. 00:22:41 - MORE SHOTS OF DEVASTATED BUILDINGS. 00:22:56 - FAMILY WITH MANY KIDS STAND NEAR WHITE FLAG & WAVE. RUINS BEHIND THEM. 00:23:05 - MONTAGE TANKS OF U.S. SOLDIERS DRIVE THROUGH TOWN WHILE LIBERATED PHILIPPINOS WAVE TO GIS 00:24:02 - CU BEAUTIFUL CHURCH WITH TWO SPIRES 00:24:14 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG PHILIPPINE WOMEN WITH INFANTS IN ARMS. 00:24:44 - WOMAN WITH CHILDREN WALKS OVER & SHAKES HANDS WITH SOLDIER WHO CHATS WITH THE CHILDREN. 00:24:57 - CU WOMAN & CHILDREN 00:25:04 - STONE CRUCIFIX & STATUES OF SAINTS OUTSIDE CHURCH 00:25:10 - MONTAGE DESTROYED BURNT-OUT BUILDINGS 00:25:59 - GIS SIT OUTSIDE DESTROYED BUILDING. ONE GI SITS IN OFFICE CHAIR 00:26:06 - DESTROYED JAPANESE TANK 00:26:17 - SCENIC VIEW OF VALLEY 00:26:28 - CIVILIANS CROWD AROUND STREET NEWSPAPER VENDOR & WAVE "DAILY PACIFICAN" NEWSPAPER WITH LARGE HEADLINES: "WAR OVER". VICTORY IN JAPAN VJ DAY 00:26:43 - CROWD OF CIVILIANS & GIS READ NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ATTACHED TO OUTDOOR BULLETIN BOARD: "PEACE"; "IT'S ALL OVER". 00:27:07 - CU FREE PHILIPPINES NEWSPAPER READS: "MACARTHUR NAMED OCCUPATION CHIEF". 00:27:13 - PAN TO PHOTO OF MACARTHUR. 00:27:25 - GIS ARE ENTERTAINED OUTDOORS BY PHILIPPINO GIRL SINGING WITH BAND INCLUDING LIVELY MARACA PLAYER 00:27:43 - BARE-CHESTED SOLDIERS SIT & WATCH 00:27:59 - SOLDIERS APPLAUD 00:28:10 - PHILIPPINE WOMEN IN FANCY DRESSES & HATS HOLDING FLOWERS DANCE IN STREET IN CELEBRATION 00:28:22 - CU HOLDING STATUE OF JESUS 00:28:37 - MUSICIANS PLAY TUBA & TROMBONE 00:28:39 - MONTAGE CU WOMEN IN FESTIVAL MOOD DANCING, CELEBRATING 00:29:08 - SUNSET OVER HARBOR 00:29:27 - OFFICAL CAR PULLS UP. SOLDIER OPENS DOOR AS JAPANESE? OFFICIALS GET OUT. CARS DRIVES AWAY.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1943
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-495