- Title: VM-1193
- Summary: OPERATION ORIENT: EVANGELICAL "POCKET TESTAMENT" MISSIONARIES TAKE THE BIBLE TO NATIVES OF FORMOSA (TAIWAN), KOREA AND JAPAN.
- Description:00:01:10 - CU FINGER ON MAP POINTS TO FORMOSA, JAPAN AND KOREA. VOICE OVER (VICTOR B. BEATTIE, MISSIONARY, NARRATOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER FROM THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE), "THE OBJECTIVE OF "OPERATION ORIENT" ARE, FORMOSA, JAPAN AND KOREA. THE MISSION , TO SPREAD THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIGHT IN THESE LAND AMONG THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE COMMAND, "AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SIN NOT", "FOR SOME HAVE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOS". CU PAN TO OPEN BIBLE. religion, missionaries, proselytizing 00:02:30 - HAND PLACES SMALL PLANES REPRESENTING AIRLINERS ON MAP NEXT TO EACH OF THE THREE COUNTRIES, AS VOICE OVER TELLS, "THE FULL SCALE EFFORT OF THE "POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE EXPANDING ON FORMOSA AND JAPAN, HAVE NOW EXPANDED INTO KOREA". ".....THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE IS STILL HARD AT WORK AT AN ALL OUT THREE PRONGED GOSPEL OFFENSIVE FROM ITS FAR EAST BASE OF OPERATION IN TOKYO". HE TELLS OF HIS ASSIGNMENT TO FORMOSA AND SPEAKS OF DEMOGRAPHICS OF FORMOSA (NOW TAIWAN) FORMOSA (TAIWAN) 00:03:24 - VARIOUS SHOTS PEOPLE OF FORMOSA HAVING INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE, CARRYING FLAGS AND BANNERS, POSTERS 00:03:33 - "PEOPLE OF FORMOSA ARE ALSO FOND OF SPORTS". MS YOUNG MALE NATIVE ATHLETE DOES HIGH JUMP OVER POLE TOWARDS CAMERA. CU LITTLE NATIVE BOU CHEWING INTO A STALK OF SUGAR CANE HE HOLDS IN HAND. MCU ANOTHER BOY DOING SAME. "THEY ARE MASTERS OF THE MORE DELICATE ARTS, FOR EXAMPLE WOOD CARVING". CU PAN HAND OF ARTISAN DOING INTRICATE WOOD CARVING WHICH CALLS FOR A HIGH DEGREE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP. 00:03:53 - MLS YOUNG FORMOSAN FARMER DOES BALANCING ACT AS HE RIDES STANDING UP ON BACK OF OX AS IT THEY WORK THE FIELDS, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER OX. (GOOD SHOT). PAN LARGE GROUP YOUNG KIDS AND YOUNG MALE POSING FOR CAMERA. "FOR THE MOST PART THE FORMOSANS ARE A CURIOUS AND AND INQUISITIVE PEOPLE, THESE CHARACTERISTICS MAKE THEIR HEARTS GOOD SOIL FOR THE SEWING OF THE SEED, WHICH IS THEW WORD OF GOD". 00:04:13 - MS ELDERLY WOMAN WITH TRADITIONAL PYRAMID SHAPED STRAW HAT WALKS WITH TWO TINY CHILDREN. CU FACE SHOT OF ELDERLY WOMAN. CU THE CHILDREN. 00:06:18 - MLS PAN NATIVE VILLAGERS GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS AND POSING OUTSIDE THEIR THATCHED ROOF HUTS. VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF PRIMITIVE ROADS AND RAVINES THEY TRAVELLED TO GET TO THESE PEOPLE. HE TALKS ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN BUILDING ROADS BY HAND WITH CRUDE INSTRUMENTS 00:07:15 - MS MISSIONARY VICTOR BEATTIE, NATIVE MISSIONARY AND AND TWO NATIVE INTERPRETERS, PREACH TO VILLAGERS, BACKS TO CAMERA. HE WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN THEY EVER SAW OR EVER BEFORE THIS DAY HEARD THE GOSPEL. VICTOR AND HIS ITINERARY COVERED AS MANY AS EIGHT VILLAGES A DAY. 00:08:20 - CHILDREN AND VILLAGERS CROWD AROUND MISSIONARY'S PANEL TRUCK. 00:08:42 - VILLAGE OPEN MARKET AS SEEN FROM MOVING CAR FRONT WINDOW. MS NATIVE MISSIONARY WORKER ENTERTAINS VILLAGERS BY PLAYING GOSPEL MUSIC ON HIS ACCORDION, IN MIDST OF OPEN MARKET. HE HANDS OUT SMALL BOOKLET OF SCRIPTURES IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE TO VILLAGERS. 00:08:55 - CU VILLAGER POURS TEA INTO TRAY FULL OF CUPS, NATIVE MISSIONARY DRESSED IN WHITE WITH WHITE BASEBALL CAP, BOWS, TAKES CUP AND DRINKS IT. 00:09:30 - MS BEATTIE POSES WITH ARMS AROUND TWO NATIVE CHRISTIAN HELPERS. VARIOUS SHOTS NATIVE CHRISTIAN HELPERS GOING FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE PASSING OUT "THE WORD OF GOD". VOICE OVER BEATTIE SPEAKS OF "SITTING DOWN TO A TYPICAL NATIVE MEAL, WE LEARNED TO GET ALONG WITH ONE SMALL SPOON FOR TEA AND CHOPSTICKS FOR THE REST".. "THERE WAS ALWAYS THE EVER PRESENT BOWL OF RICE, ..........". 00:10:33 - VARIOUS SHOTS BLACK PANEL TRUCK WITH LOUDSPEAKER ATTACHED TO FRONT FENDER, DRIVES ALONG ROUGH DIRT COUNTRY TROAD, PASSING CHILDREN AND ADULT FARMERS WHO SCRAMBLE TO GET OUT OF WAY. "THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE IS HERE TO ALL POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIRCULATING THE WORD OF GOD". 00:11:12 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG GIRLS OF TRIBE OF FORMER HEAD HUNTING FORMOSAN ABORIGINES, DRESSED IN COLORFUL COSTUME, FURRY HEADWEAR, PERFORMING ONE OF THEIR RARE AND COLORFUL NATIVE DANCES AND SONG, "TO SHOW HOW HONORED THEY WERE BY OUR PRESENCE". DONE ONLY ON OCCASION OF SPECIAL CELEBRATION. tradItional ethnic dance, songs,rituals. 00:11:31 - CU TATTOOED FACE SHOTS OF SOME OF THE PRIMITIVES. MORE OF DANCING AND SINGING. VOICE OVER VICTOR BEATTIE TELLS OF THEIR VISIT TO LEPER COLONY AND MISSIONARIES WHO ARE DEVOTING THEIR LIVES TO THE LEPERS. 00:13:22 - PAN LARGE CROWD YOUNG CHILDREN ENTHUSIASTICALLY SMILING, POSING. "STRONG EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO ORGANIZE AND BUILD BIBLE SCHOOLS IN STRATEGIC LOCATIONS, MAKING THEM ACCESSIBLE FOR THE YOUTH .....". 00:14:30 - CU TILT DOWN TO OPEN SORES ON LEG OF NATIVE MAN SEATED ON GROUND (GRAPHIC). MLS PAN HOSPITAL STAFFED NY MISSIONARY DOCTORS, NURSES. CU PAN NURSE AND DOCTOR AND NATIVE HOSPITAL WORKERS. CU NATIVE MISSIONARY WORKER WITH STACK OF BOOKLETS IN HAND, HANDS OUT THE SMALL BOOK OF SCRIPTURES TO ALL FORMOSAN PATIENTS ENTERING HOSPITAL. VARIOUS SHOTS CHINESE WOMEN WITH CHILD IN ARMS AND BOOKLETS IN CHILD'S HAND. JAPAN 00:15:42 - VARIOUS SHOTS OPEN AIR MARKETS IN TOKYO, JAPAN. CU VENDER CUTTING OPEN SMALL MORSEL OF FOOD. MS MOTHER IN TRADITIONAL KIMONO CARRYING BABY ON BACK PAPOOSE. TWO GIRLS IN TRADITIONAL GEISHA COSTUMES CROSSING STREET. PAPER PLAY MAN WITH LARGE BASS DRUM ATTACHED TO BACK, ENTERTAINS CHILDREN. 00:16:11 - MAGNIFICENT SPLENDER OF SCENIC FAMOUS FUGINAMIA FALLS CASCADING FROM CLIFF TO LAKE BELOW. 00:16:30 - PAN SUICIDE CLIFF WHERE "AN AVERAGE OF ONE SOUL A DAY PLUNGES INTO ETERNITY". MS BIBLE MESSAGE (IN JAPANESE) AT TOP OF CLIFF. MANY MORE ARE SPARED BY READING THIS MESSAGE. VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF "THE HEATHEN MESSAGE OF JAPAN'S SHINTO RELIGION"."SHINTOISM IS A REFINED FORM OF ANCESTOR WORSHIP".VOICE OVER SPEAKS UNFAVORABLY OF SHINTO RELIGION. 00:18:06 - JAPANESE WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL KIMONO, SIT ON FLOOR AROUND DINNER TABLE AS SHE SERVES FOOD AND TEA. TWO JAPANESE MEN IN KIMONOS KNEELING BEFORE SMA;; DINNER TABLE, READ SCRIPTURES. VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF GIRLS SCHOOL WHICH REPRESENTS MANY SCHOOLS WHERE THEY (POCKET TESTAMENT) WERE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF PTL GOSPEL. 00:18:20 - NATIVE JAPANESE MISSIONARIES DISTRIBUTING BOOLETS TO WORKERS AS THEY EXIT METAL FACTORY. PREACH OVER TO THEM 00:19:40 - CU FLAT TIRE ON MISSIONARY ; TRUCK. LOUDSPEAKERS. DON ROBINSON AND JAPANESE WORKER FIXING PLAT WITH TIRE IRON. 00:20:25 - PAN SHIPS IN HARBOR AND DOCK OF PORT CITY OF YOKOHAMA. SHIPS BEING LOADED WITH CRATES FULL OF POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE (PTL) BIBLES FOR SHIPMENT TO KOREA, POCKET TESTAMENT NEXT DESTINATION. CRATED BEING HOISTED ONTO SHIP IN CARGO NET. PTL TRUCK BEING HOISTED FROM DOCK TO SHIP. KOREA 00:22:00 - VOICE OVER SPEAKS FROM AIRPLANE (ON WAY TO KOREA) OF PUSAN, KOREA "A HAVEN FOR COMMUNIST DRIVEN REFUGEES". A PRE-WAR POPULATION HAS AS MANY AS 3 MILLION WITH THE REFUGEES. VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF THE HEARTBREAKING SITUATION, QUOTES SCRIPTURES. VARIOUS SHOTS CRATES OF SCRIPTURES BEING UNLOADED FROM BOAT TO BARGE. MS TRUCK BEING LIFTED ONTO DOCK VIA WINCH. TRUCK BEING LOADED WITH CRATES OF SCRIPTURES. 00:23:50 - MLS 1500 WOUNDED ROK (REPUBLIC OF KOREA) SOLDIERS GATHER IN STANDS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL TO LISTEN TO SCRIPTURES BEING READ VIA TRUCK LOUDSPEAKER. MAN ATOP TRUCK TAKES FILM WITH CAMERA, TRIPOD. ALL WOUNDED SOLDIERS BEING HANDED BOOKLETS BY WORKERS. PAN WOUNDED SOLDIERS, SOME SQUATTING, READING BOOKLETS. VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF FOLLOW UP BEING DONE. 00:24:49 - NATIVE KOREAN PTL CHAPLIN IN BLACK BUSINESS SUIT, COAT, SHAKES HANDS WITH AMERICAN MISSIONARY LEADER MANY OF THESE CHAPLAINS WERE COMMUNIST CAPTIVES. TWO CHAPLAINS POSE. TOWER WITH CHURCH BELL WHICH CALLS THE PEOPLE TO PRAYER VERY MORNING ABOUT 5AM. TILT UP TO CROSS ATOP TOWER. MS CHURCHI BUILDING. VOICE OVER, "ON COLD CHRISTMAS MORNING I PREACHED TO 1200 KOREANS HUDDLED ON THE FLOOR OF THIS UNHEATED CHURCH". 00:25:25 - PAN SQUALID HOCKOBON (?) HOMES MADE FROM SCRAP WOOD AND CARDBOARD, THE CRACKS STUFFED WITH DIRTY RAGS AND AROUND A RANCID POND PAPER. "AS ,ANY AS 8 CROWD INTO ONE OF THESE TINY SHACKS FOR SHELTER. ABOVE VIEW WOMEN WASHING CLOTHES IN RANCID POND. TWO WOMEN SQUAT ON GROUND COKING SOMETHING OVER SMALL FIRE. 00:26:22 - AMERICAN FLAG ON FLAGPOLE AT CEMETERY, BLOWS IN THE WIND. 00:26:54 - TITLE: "THE END", "A GOOD NEWS PRODUCTION" 00:27:35 - MCU SIGN ON OFFICE DOOR, "THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC." 00:28:45 - LS AIRLINER IN FLIGHT. POV PLANE FLYING ALONGSIDE. MS AMERICAN MISSIONARY, VICTOR BEATTIE (?), FROM PTL SEATED IN SEAT BY PLANE WINDOW READING MAGAZINE, LOOKS OUT WINDOW. LS VIEW ISLAND OF FORMOSA (TAIWAN), POV PLANE. BEATTIE WALKS DOWN RAMP OF PLANE WITH LUGGAGE IN HAND, IS GREETED BY YOUNG FAMILY OF FOUR, WIFE WITH CHILD IN ARMS HOLDING FORMOSA FLAG. CU FACE SHOTS PRETTY YOUNG WIFE, DAUGHTER AND SON. 00:29:23 - STREET SCENE TAIPEI, HEAVY BICYCLE AND RICKSHAW TRAFFIC. BEATTIE WAVES FROM HAND DRAWN RICKSHAW. LITTLE AUTO TRAFFIC, BUS PASSING. PEOPLE RIDING BICYCLES EVERY WHICH WAY. 00:29:50 - VARIOUS VIEWS MOUNTAINS AND CLOUD SHROUDED HILLS AS POV PLANE. PAN FARMLANDS, FLOWERING HILLS, POV MOVING VEHICLE. 00:31:15 - MS TWO NATIVE FORMOSAN FARMERS (?) WITH TRADITIONAL STRAW HATS ON DIRT ROAD, CARRY LARGE BUNDLE HANGING FROM POLE ON THEIR SHOULDERS, TOWARDS CAMERA. MS MAN CARRYING HUGE BUNDLES OF STRAW-LIKE MATERIALS, ON EACH ENDS OF POLE, ON HIS SHOULDERS. MLS 00:31:36 - MAN PULLING CART LOADED WITH HUGE PILE OF BUNDLES OF MATERIAL. TWO MEN WITH TYPICAL STRAW HATS PULL CARTS LOADED WITH DOZENS OF 50 GALLON DRUMS (MUST BE EMPTY ?). 00:31:39 - OLD MAN WALKING WITH AID OF WOODEN POLE AS CANE, SLOWLY EXITS RUN DOWN HUT WITH PAGODA ROOF, WALKS BAY CHILD AND MAN. GROUP OF FOUR MEN CARRY LARGE ROLLED UP CARPET (?) CLEVERLY BALANCED BETWEEN THEM ON POLES. SMALL BOY FOLLOWS ALONG. 00:31:56 - WOODEN GATE OPENS TO ENTRANCE TO CHURCH BUILDING, CROSS AT TOP. 00:32:06 - SMALL BLACK PANEL PTL TRUCK, WITH BOLD ORIENTAL WRITING ON SIDE SPEEDS THROUGH DIRT ROADS AND PADDIES KICKING UP DUST, ROLLS INTO VILLAGE, WITH CHICKENS ROAMING ABOUT AND VILLAGERS CARRYING BUNDLES ON POLES TYPICALLY STRUNG ACROSS SHOULDERS. VILLAGE CHILDREN GATHER AROUND AS NATIVE MISSIONARY WORKER MOUNTS LOUD SPEAKER ON TRUCK ROOF. CROWD CHILDREN, VILLAGERS IN FRENZY OF ENTHUSIASM GATHER AROUND TO RECEIVE BOOKLETS HANDED OUT TO THEM. CU HANDS OUTSTRETCHED TO ACCEPT BOOKLETS. 00:33:25 - VARIOUS SHOTS PANEL TRUCK DRIVING THROUGH PUDDLES OF WATER AND INTO THICK JUNGLE. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN, WIMAN VILLAGERS BUILDING ROAD, USING CRUDE TOOLS AND PRIMITIVE METHODS. VILLAGERS USE LONG POLES TO HOIST BAMBOO OR RATTAN WALL OF TWO STORY BUILDING. 00:34:42 - CU MAN INSIDE PANEL TRUCK PREACHES OVER MICROPHONE TO CROWD OF VILLAGERS GATHERED AROUND TRUCK, POV TRUCK FRONT WINDOW. MS PAN FACE SHOTS VILLAGERS AROUND TRUCK, POV TRUCK. TRUCK ROLLING THROUGH NARROW DIRT STREETS OF FORMOSAN VILLAGE. 00:35:58 - MALE, FEMALE AND SMALL BOY NATIVE MISSIONARY WORKERS FILL PANEL TRUCK WITH BOXES OF SCRIPTURES. 00:36:10 - FORMOSAN PEOPLE IN SUNDAY BEST EXIT CHURCH AFTER SERVICES. VICTOR BEATTIE AND NATIVE ASSISTANT EXIT. BEATTIE WASHES FACE AT OUTSIDE FAUCET. CU PAN TABLE WITH DISHES OF ORIENTAL FOODS, DESERTS. CU BEATTIE AT OUTDOOR TABLE FULL OF EXOTIC ORIENTAL DISHES, EATS FROM BOWL WITH CHOPSTICKS. SHOWS APPRECIATION. 00:37:35 - FORMOSAN TROOPS WITH RIFLES AND AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WALKING DOWN DIRT ROAD TOWARDS CAMERA. BEATTIE AND OTHER MISSIONARY WORKERS PASS OUT BOOKLETS OF SCRIPTURES TO EACH SOLDIER AS HE PASSES. 00:39:23 - LARGE GROUP MOSTLY MALE FORMOSAN NATIVES EXIT CHURCH SERVICES TOWARDS CAMERA, FOLLOWED BY AMERICAN ;EADER (BEATTIE) WITH NATIVE ASSISTANTS. MS AMERICAN MINISTER AND WIFE (?) POSE. MS MINISTER'S WIFE (?) GIVES ELDERLY WOMAN MEDICATION IN PAPER CUP. TILT DOWN SQUATTING ELDERLY MAN WITH BANDAGED HANDS. INTERESTING FACE SHOTS ELDERLY FORMOSAN MEN. PAN YOUNG FORMOSAN MALE NATIVES POSING, SMILING, RECITING. 00:40:30 - MLS PAN MISSIONARY BUILDINGS (?). PAN GROUP SHOT MOSTLY MEN MISSIONARY WORKERS, POSING. CU MEN, WOMEN MISSIONARY WORKERS POSING INDIVIDUALLY, SMILING BROADLY. NATIVE MISSIONARY WORKER SHAKES HANDS WITH MAN, SITS WITH HIM ON OUTSIDE STEP. COUNSELS HIM (?) 00:42:03 - MS FOUR PROP DRIVEN LARGE PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS AIRLINER TAXIING ON RUNWAY. MS "CLIPPER - QUEEN OF THE PACIFIC" WRITTEN ON NOSE SECTION. AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL MISSIONARY LEADERS EXITING AIRLINER. LS PTL BLACK PANEL TRUCK WITH LARGE LOUDSPEAKERS MOUNTED ATOP ;LEAVING MISSIONARY HEADQUARTERS, TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:43:44 - MS VARIOUS SHINTO-TYPE BUILDINGS WITH PAGODA STYLE ROOFS. WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL KIMONOS, SOME WITH BABIES STRAPPED TO BACKS, WORSHIPPING AT TEMPLES (?) (JAPAN OR KOREA ?) 00:45:25 - LARGE GROUP SCHOOL GIRLS IN SCHOOL UNIFORMS (LOOK LIKE SAILOR BLOUSES) BLACK SKIRTS, ARE GIVEN COPIES OF SCRIPTURES (BOOKLETS) AS THEY ENTER MISSIONARY CHAPEL. PAN HUNDREDS SCHOOL GIRLS SMILING, WAVING THEIR BOOKLETS. ALL POSE GOR GROUP SHOT, BOOKLETS IN HAND. WELL-DRESSED NATIVE MISSIONARY WORKERS CARRY CRATES OF BOOKLETS FROM PANEL TRUCK. GROUP MEN WOMEN POSE BY TRUCK. 00:47:00 - PTL TRUCK WITH LOUDSPEAKERS ON ROOF DRIVES THROUGH NARROW STREET OF BUSY MARKETPLACE. MOST PEOPLE GET AROUND ON BIKES. 00:48:27 - PTL MISSIONARY LEADER (BEATTIE (?) AND NATIVE ASSISTANT CLIMB ABOARD PLANE FOR TRIP TO ANOTHER COUNTRY IN THE FAR EAST (KOREA (?). 00:50:17 - MISSIONARIES PREACH THROUGH MICROPHONES AS THEY STAND ATOP TRUCK. PAN CROWD. 00:51:20 - VARIOUS VIEWS PTL PREACHERS PREACHING TO HUNDREDS ROK (REPUBLIC OF KOREA) SOLDIERS FROM ATOP PANEL TRUCK. 00:52:45 - LARGE SIGN WITH ARROW: "UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY, 5 MILES". PAN HUGE CEMETERY WITH FLAGS OF EVERY NATION FLYING ON NUMEROUS FLAGPOLES. KOREAN HILLS IN B/G. ANOTHER SIGN: "PRISONER OF WAR CEMETERY". PAN HUGE CEMETERY WITH PLAIN MARKERS, NO FLAGS. 00:53:24 - MS PAN CROWDS KOREAN CHILDREN, , GATHERED AROUND MISSIONARY WITH THEIR HANDS OUTSTRETCHED AS HE GIVES HANDS OUT BOOKLETS TO THE FRENZY OF SEEKERS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1193