Woman From Liberia

Liberia - Africa's Only Republic. A tour of Liberia in the late 1940s. 1940s, Africa, Liberia, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, men banging on drum, native men carrying hampers on their backs, Liberia on map of Africa, rural land, fertile jungle and rivers, brightly colored flowers on tree, African Moon Flower, Poinsettias, Hibiscus, village of huts, tribal living, women pounding and winnowing rice, farmers planting cassava, Elaeis guineensis, African Oil Palm, man climbing African Oil Palm tree and chopping down branches, men rowing fishing boat, women trapping fish in freshwater pool, man weaving on loom, mat makers, blacksmith, villagers building hut, family carrying possessions on heads into hut, family sitting and playing outside hut, tribal meeting, young native men carrying hampers on their backs, children carrying goods on their heads to market, market goods, African peppers, African Oil Palm fruit, Liberian citrus and sugarcane, dried minnows, hand carved ivory, leopard pet, vendor displaying cloth, US Trading Company operated by Firestone, men buying goods from clerks, airplane landing at Roberts Field Airport, airport terminal building, Farmington River, modern homes on Firestone plantations, base hospital, modern clinic, Firestone radio towers, people playing golf on Firestone golf course, native rugby teams playing game on plantation field, Liberian stilt dance at village, native people performing traditional warrior dance, latex industry, rubber industry, latex dripping from tree, men chopping tree trunk with axes, felling trees, felled trees falling to ground, workers clearing jungle, workers burning felled jungle growth, billowing smoke from fire, workers planting rubber plant seeds in nursery, young rubber trees growing in nursery, workers bud grafting rubber trees, worker chopping off seedling top, grafted shoot from new bud becomes trunk of superior rubber tree, technician looking through transit to align rows for field in tree, workers marking tree locations with stakes, worker digging hole in clay soil with shovel, worker filling hole with top soil, worker planting pruned bud grafted rubber tree, worker looking at young rubber tree, rubber trees in field, worker using knife to tap mature rubber tree, drops of latex oozing from rubber tree, rapper tapping, native men carrying buckets and knives leaving village to tap rubber trees on plantation, tapper removing string of latex from tree and cutting into tree, tapper pouring dash of anticoagulant into collection bowl, latex dripping from rubber tree into bowl, man tapping tree from two levels on tree trunk, man hitting gong on hilltop, tapper collecting latex from rubber trees into buckets, tappers carrying buckets of latex balanced on pole on their backs, tappers carrying buckets of latex walking towards division station, buckets of latex being weighed, recorded and poured into receiving tank, truck hauling latex to central processing factory, latex being emptied from truck into receiving tank, Firestone Processing Factory, fresh latex being converted into commercial grade rubber, worker operating centrifuges, latex in centrifuges, workers moving latex drums, workers processing latex into dry rubber in large vats, latex blubber being chopped into large slices, hunks of blubber sent down chute, workers putting blubber pads through rollers, workers examining rubber sheets hung up to dry, workers operating hydraulic press squeezing rubber sheets into bales, baled rubber being loaded onto lighters, heavily laden lighters traveling down Farmington River to Atlantic, lighters traveling towards anchored freighter, cargo being loaded from lighter onto freighter, Harvey Samuel Firestone portrait, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Jr. seated at desk talking to man, American and Liberian scientists working in Firestone Plantation laboratory, children playing outside and running inside school when instructed by teacher, teacher instructing students in classroom, Firestone Plantation school, native medical technicians vaccinating Liberians against smallpox and examining them for African sleeping sickness, doctor examining girl in clinic, doctors and nurses treating patients and performing surgery in hospital, researchers looking through microscopes, Monrovia, cityscape along coast, street scene, Matilda Newport Monument, government buildings, legislative building, President William Tubman delivering State of the Nation address to legislature, train traveling near harbor, fishermen repairing net, sunset, silhouettes of people looking at water at sunset

Sequence shot in the town of Harper, Liberia. TRAVELLING SHOT taken from a car driving through town, showing palm trees, various stalls of a street market, ruining buildings, men, women carrying water, and children.

LIBERIAN TROOPS / SAMUEL DOE

President's Historic Trip! The

Aerial shots of Monrovia, capital of Liberia, around time of inauguration of William Tubman as President of country

FIVE WOMEN SERVING AS NUNS IN LIBERIA WERE GUNNED DOWN AND KILLED. THE ORDER WAS CALLED THE ADORERS OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.

Liberia. <br/> <br/>Procession moving through crowded streets of Liberian capital Monrovia during the independence celebrations. Men of the Liberian forces march past accompanied by several bands. Officials arriving at Liberian national airport. Liberian President William V. S. Tubman performs civic duties around the capital. More shots of the parade of the Liberian forces through the streets of the capital. <br/> <br/>(Dupe)

famine grips area; starving kids; land laid bare (Liberia)

Liberian President meets local chiefs Small library in the Sudan People reading. Liberian Vice President visits Meets with Eisenhower Meets Mrs. John Foster Dulles Meets foreign ambassador Meets Adam Clayton Powell Meets Richard Nixon. Liberian ambassador. Liberian Secretary of State J. Rudolph Grimes addresses the General Assembly Security Council.

Holland & Liberia. <br/> <br/>LS. President Tubman of Liberia and Lady Tubman leaving train and being greeted by Queen Juliana of Holland at platform, two little girls follow, President's daughters. LS. Car driving past camera. Shots of Queen Juliana, Dutch Princesses and dignitaries saying goodbye to Prince Bernhard at Soesterberg Airport. He is on his way to Liberia. MS. & CU. Prince Bernhard saying a few words before departure to a reporter who is interviewing him - natural sound, in Dutch. More shots of the Queen Juliana and other dignitaries saying goodbye - Queen and Prince Bernhard kiss! Plane taxiing. MS. & LS. Queen and Princesses waving. Plane taking off. <br/> <br/>MS. President Tubman walking with other dignitaries at airport. LS. Plane taxiing in. CU. President Tubman. Several shots of the crowd - black people are on one side and white on the other - white wave Dutch flags. MS. & CU. Prince Bernhard being received by President Tubman. They inspect Guard of Honour. BV. Prince Bernhard. LS. Prince being driven in open car. MS. Liberians waving flags. MS. BV. Prince Bernhard walking past waving crowd. Liberian Army march past. LS. Prince taking salute. MS. Building. <br/> <br/>(Dupe Neg.) <br/> <br/>Date found in the old record - 26/01/1958. Sound at airport during the first part of the item, rest mute.

Sequence shot in the town of Harper, Liberia. LONG SHOT taken from a ruined building. An orange tow truck drives past. PAN to other ruins and a church in the background. LONG SHOT of a small house in ruins, a group of young children standing outside. A man coming out of the house and gesticulating at the camera. Long TRAVELLING SHOT taken from a car driving through town, showing palm trees, an ambulance, villagers, local architecture and various stalls of a street market.

B&W newsreel film, 1945. A mid-ocean victory garden off the coast of Liberia.

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Building project in Liberian countryside around time of inauguration of Liberian President William Tubman

US Marines training Liberian soldiers during WWII around time of inauguration of Liberian President William Tubman