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Formosa Sugar Crop.

Formosa Sugar Crop.
Clip: 355915_1_1
Year Shot: 1958 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1653
Original Film: 031-095-02
HD: N/A
Location: Formosa (Taiwan)
Timecode: 00:39:51 - 00:40:37

Formosa Sugar Crop. An army of half a million, mostly women, pour into the cane fields of Formosa to harvest a $100 million dollar crop that makes Free China the world's second-ranking producer of sugar. Train pulls open cars full of people, all in hats. Women, then men, working in the fields.