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"NATIVES WORKING AT VARIOUS JOBS ON OKINAWA" ("Natives is original 1955 description.) 1) MCU Okinawa woman working with wheat grinder; other women around (SV).2) CU An old man.3) MS Two women pounding grain with hammers (SV).4) CU beating wheat inside grinding pot.5) MS Two women working with grain sifter.6) CU Grain sifter.7) MS Children given dancing instructions in field.8) HA CU Woman instructing boy in dancing.9) MS Boys given instructions in judo; Okinawa policeman in BG.10) CU Boys practicing judo.11) HA MS Wounded Okinawa children12) MS Small boy, with amputated hand taped, sitting on bench.13) MS Japanese cemetery.14) CU Grave marker in cemetery.15) MCU Sign in cemetery.16) MCU Men tending graves.17) LS Sign: "Island Command Cemetery, Okinawa"; jeeps on road in BG.18) MS Sign: "Camp Goza Military Government"; girl with baby on her back in FG.19) HA MLS Village in Okinawa.20) MS Horse drawn cart going down road.21) MS Group of natives climb from back of truck (SV).22) MS Okinawan workers shoveling potatoes from back of truck onto ramp.23) MS Okinawans carrying firewood off back of truck.24) MCU N Mule drawn cart on muddy road.25) HA MLS Church services in field.26) HA MLS Line of priests saying mass at makeshift alters rigged on hoods of several jeeps; large group of people in BS.27) MCU Soldiers attending mass.28) MS Looking down rows of crosses and American flags at priest saying mass (SV).29) MLS Crosses in cemetery, with American flags flying beside them; group of people in BG.30) HA MCU Priests kneeling in front of makeshift alters.31) LA MCU Marine officer and man stand next to jeep at mass.32) MS Marines walking by crosses in cemetery.33) MS Priest saying mass.34) MS Priests giving communion (SV).35) HA MS Natives walking past hospital truck parked on read (SV).36) MCU Marines putting stretcher in back of truck; Okinawa boy on stretcher (SV).37) MS Looking through open tent flap at Okinawa woman bandaging hand of boy (SV).38) MS Natives washing clothes (SV).39) MS Natives sitting around table, sorting through card file (SV).40) MS Native women carrying fire wood in baskets on their heads in village (SV).41) MS Children receiving dancing instructions. (unedited, silent) (March 19, 1955)

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