| FREE CHINA HARVESTING RECORD RICE CROP Harvesting, drying and shipping of rice in Taiwan. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 8640 | |
| Catalog #: | 111198 | |
| Clip Number: | 111198-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 3037 D | |
| Timecode: | 01:16:09 - 01:20:41 | |
| Location: | Taiwan | |
| Year Shot: | 1958 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Grain, Rice LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Taiwan (Formosa) | |
| Description: | Aerial shot - low flying of rice paddies ready to be harvested. Farmers harvesting rice & threshing grain. Farmers harvesting. Water buffalo scampers past in b.g. Chinese farmerettes in colourful 'Tou-Li' hats and their heads wrapped for protection from sun. Little girl riding on back of water buffalo. Hand cutting rice stalks. 2 men move threshing barrel to new position. Men threshing rice at tub - burlap sides prevent grain flying wild. Men threshing rice. Girls continuing to cut rice. Rice being threshed on steel grate. Hands holding newly threshed rice. Pretty Chinese farmerette holding armful of rice. Rice. MS. Filling bags of rice from tub. Farmers tying rice in hay racks for drying. Farm family drying rice. Women with wooden hoes turning over rows of rice for drying. Farmers with sacks of rice on their shoulders. Cart-load of rice moving towards freighter at Keelung for loading. Loading operation aboard 'Peiteh' freighter of the Free Chinese. Dock workers bringing up sacks of rice on carts. Loading rice into sling. Bag of rice with Chinese calligraphy. Stevedore hooking on sling. Load of rice going aboard and into the hold for shipment to the Far East. | |
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