Title reads: "After Long Years. Anti-Red Fighters reach Formosa".
Formosa / Taiwan. Chinese Nationalists return after fighting Communists on the Thai / Burma border.
Various shots of Free Chinese troops who have been carrying on guerilla warfare since the fall of China to the Communist forces. MS as the soldiers climb into plane. MS of the soldiers in the plane. VS of engines of plane starting up. CU Picture of General Chiang Kai-Shek as the plane flies overhead. Various shots as the soldiers descend from plane, carrying banners and pictures of Chiang Kai-Shek - they are dusted against vermin and disease. GV of the soldiers in a settlement camp and interviewed by the press. MS Small Chinese boy looking very happy in a new uniform. MS of soldiers walking off carrying new uniforms.
(Comb. F.G.) Old record suggests material dates from around 29/03/1961.
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