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Commercial industry in Japan prior to World War II

Men and women workers exercising outside a factory in Japan, prior to World War 2. A steam whistle blows atop a tall tower and all the workers rush to enter the factory. View of Commercial industry in Japan prior to World War II heavy smoke rising from numerous stacks at an industrial site. Women working inside automated thread spinning factory where it is wound upon large spools. sheets of fabric being dispensed in folds as women tend them. A table full of toy metal airplanes. Women winding them up and testing to assure that they run properly.

Date: 1939
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062946
Keio University rowing team competes in race on river in Japan prior to World War II

Opening scene shows Keio University (2 Chome-15-45 Mita, Minato City, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan, before World War II. Six students walk side-by-side toward the camera. Next, they are seen in rowing attire, carrying their racing shell (a sculling boat) above their heads, and then placing it gently into a river. View from Coxwain's position, of rowers pulling on their oars. Scene shifts to view above the river as two sculling boats, each with eight rowers, compete in a race. A launch carrying an umpire follows the racing boats.

Date: 1939
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062948
Japanese athletes participate in American football; Karate; and baseball before World War II

Japanese sports prior to World War 2. Closeup of American type football placed on the ground and held by a player as another does a Kick off. Next, players are seen tackling a runner carrying the ball. Scene changes to a gymnasium where Japanese men demonstrate various aspects of Karate. The final scenes show Japanese baseball players warming up before a game. Then baseball players march onto a ball field accompanied by a brass band playing in formation on the field. View of baseball stadium filled with fans as a game is in progress. A batter hits the ball and safely reaches a base, with a hit.

Date: 1939
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062949
Japanese families at a beach resort in Japan before World War II

In opening scene prior to World War 2, camera pans across a building complex that might be a resort hotel. Scene shifts to hundreds of bathers on shallow water at a beach. Life guards occupy a structure in the shallows. Families with small children fill the shoreline and shallow water. some of the small children use flotation devices. Actual swimmers are seen farther out in deeper water. Closeup of three small children playing with a pot as they sit in a protected area that seems to be surrounded by seaweed or other vegetation. A boy behind them works to build the surrounding wall. Change of scene shows another area of beach with a long pier extending out into the water. The shore is completely hidden by families seated on the beach under huge umbrellas and tents. The next scene is of a downtown commercial district festooned with numerous banners overlooking the street. There are no vehicles evident. The entire area is filled with pedestrians. At another section of the town, the street is more densly crowded with pedestrians.

Date: 1939
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062950
Constrasts between traditional Japenese theater and modern Western oriented stage shows

Japanese patrons, including five young women in traditional dress, line up to purchase tickets at a theater in Japan. A businessman and a woman walk past on the sidewalk. Scene shifts to a Japanese film with actors in traditional dress perform stylized combat with swords. Next, women in traditional dress perform onstage in a ritualistic dance employing fans. In sharp contrast, women in modern military costumes onstage perform precision dance moves in a follies style and a man dances with chorus girls in western style jazz stage show. Scene ends with theater curtain descending as the dancers are still performing.

Date: 1939
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062951
Japanese students practice Japanese martial arts (Kendo) focused on sword fighting

Opening scene shows instructor on a raised platform drilling students in preliminaries for Kendo training. Next, the students divided into two large teams, charge each other in combat exercise. The students wear protective armor (Bogu) and wield wooden swords (Bokken).

Date: 1939
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062952