Free China’s Quemoy Island Repels Red Invasion Threat (1958)

Unused / unissued material - Quemoy, Formosa / Taiwan. Chinese Nationalist forces repel an attack on the Island of Quemoy from the Mainland. Map of Far East showing Taiwan’s relation to Communist-held Chinese mainland — cross dissolve to map of Taiwan. LS Panning shot of Quemoy Island. LS Panning shot of street in Quemoy. MS Pan shops and stores. LS Quemoy school children coming out. LS Children in playground. Overhead tilt shot of children in classroom. LS Panning shot of Quemoy hospital. MS Doctor at work with microscope. MS Hospital ward. LS Typical Quemoy homes. LS Farmer ploughing soil. MS Young farm girls riding on seats on sides of burros. LS Statue of Dr Sun Yat-sen, leader of China’s successful 1911 revolution. LS Large rock with emblazoned Chinese characters in Chiang Kai-shek’s own hand “Remember what happened at Chu“. This is a moral for todays Nationalist Chinese soldiers. The rock is on 800-foot-high Tai-wu-shan, highest point on Quemoy, which commands a sweeping view of the Communist