This silent footage documents the survey conducted between March and April 1937 (Showa 12) by Keitaro Miyamoto, Toru Ogawa, and Tadao Kano in the mountainous regions of southern Taiwan, home to the Paiwan people. Compiled and edited by the Attic Museum, the film includes intertitles and was completed as a finished work. The cinematographer was Keitaro Miyamoto.
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman.
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man.
Documentary from 1937 filmed in the small Indonesian West Java town of Malabar. Follows the entire process of tea manufacturing from being grown and harvested in the fields, ground and processed in the factory, and eventually shipped out to countries around the world.
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Have you watched Record of Interviews with the Paiwan People in Chōshū District, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan yet? What did you think about it?
