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Silk worms taken from mulberry trees, sorted and placed on thorns to weave cocoons in China.
Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows location of China. Silk worms are taken from mulberry trees in China. Worms are sorted and placed in a nest of thorns to weave cocoons. Cocoons are picked up from the nest. Man shows a box containing various samples of silk. Animation shows the use of silk as an insulator inside a telephone.
Political unrest in Shanghai, China, on eve of the Chinese Civil War in 1927
Conditions in China in 1927-28. A large crowd of people is assembled outdoors, in Shanghai, China. Several display Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) flags. Next, the people are seen scrambling for pamphlets that are being thrown into their midst. Camera pans across the crowd, revealing that they are assembled near a waterfront pier on the Huangpu River, where a number of ships are docked. Closeup of the pier shows men carrying cargo and packages through the crowd. Scene shifts to two men apparently distributing literature from a truck, and a crowd (mob) of people pushing into an official-looking building. Next, a contingent of armed Chinese sailors marches through the throng. They pass by the people crammed into the doorway of the official-looking building, paying no attention to them. More armed Chinese military march through the area. Views of people jammed into the streets. A line of armed British soldiers is seen trying to control a crowd (probably near the International Settlement). They push the demonstrators back. Scene shifts to a group of Chinese men seated on the ground, eating bread. someone gives one of them a small tin box that he attempts to pry open.
Persimmon transportation using donkeys for short distance and camels for long distance in Chihli province, China.
Persimmon harvest in Chihli province, China. Two men seated beside a pile of persimmons and counting them in north eastern China. Donkeys loaded with baskets of persimmons moving on a marshy terrain. A few men walk with the donkeys. Mountains in the background. View of a donkey saddle and twin hampers that are fitted on to the donkey during the transportation of persimmons. A few men in an orchard filling hampers with persimmons for transportation. The donkeys grazing in the background. A line of camels carrying hampers of persimmons moving along a path during long distance transportation. Men in an orchard filling persimmons in hampers to be fitted on to the camels. View of the hampers filled with persimmons awaiting transportation. Roadside vendors selling persimmons. A man and a boy buying persimmons.
Soybean cultivated fields in Manchuria, China.
A documentary titled 'Soybeans at Home'. View of soybean plants in Manchuria, China. Leaves and soybeans on the plants. Soybean cultivated fields form 25% of the total cultivated area in Manchuria. A map showing Manchuria extending from 390 to 530 north latitude from about central Illinois north almost to Hudson Bay in Canada.
Persimmon orchards with trees on which commercial variety fruits are borne on wild persimmon stalks in Chihli province, China.
A documentary titled 'Persimmon Harvest' in Chihli province in China. A few men outside a building with baggages. The men load the baggages on to a donkey. Persimmon orchards in Chihli province. A few men and children beside the trees in an orchard. The trees in the orchard on which seedlings of 'Black Date' or wild persimmon (Diospyros lotus) are used as stalks upon which the commercial varieties are worked. A man holds a fruiting branch of wild persimmon in his left hand and the fruit of a commercial variety in his right hand. A man beside a tree bark which shows the union of wild persimmon and cultivated one. Rows of trees in the orchard. Branches of trees bearing fruits. A man pointing to a girdled or a ring-barked tree which induces fruitfulness.
Persimmon orchards with trees bearing large number of persimmon fruits in Chihli province, China.
Persimmon harvest in Chihli province, China. Rows of trees in a persimmon orchard producing commercial variety of persimmon fruits. The lantern persimmon tree which is not as productive as the others. A man beside a branch of a tree bearing a large number of persimmon fruits.
