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Japanese attack the United States ship Pannay and people on board rescued in China.

Japanese attack on the United States Ship Pannay in China. An interpreter at a desk explains how the pictures of bombing and sinking of United States ship Pannay were obtained. Destructed buildings in Nanking, China after a Japanese attack. Debris spread all over. A dead body in a field and a woman by its side. American embassy evacuated. American envoys embark onto United States ship Pannay. Japanese aircraft attack the ship and drop bombs. Damaged interior of the ship. Anti aircraft guns aboard the ship fired. Men injured by bombing transferred to a boat along side the ship. Boat pulls away from the coast. Men at the bank of a river. Injured brought to the bank. Smoke rises from the coast after standard oil beat catches fire due to Japanese bombings. Wounded taken care of after landing ashore.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042113
Various scenes in Hankow, China

Map of China shows Beijing (Peiping), Hankow / Hankou (now part of present-day Wuhan), Nanjing (Nanking), Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton). The city of Hankow on the Yangtze River. Junks on river. Naval boat. Transport - Air lines and land routes inside China. Map. Pilot on small sea plane. Aerials of rural area. Railway steam train running. Shadow of people on roof of train as it passes through countryside.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040301
Men injured due to a Japanese attack on United States ship Pannay being treated by doctors in China.

Aftermath of Japanese attack on United States ship Pannay in Nanking, China. Men injured as a result of Japanese attack on Pannay carried on litters and in slings to a village. Chinese doctors treat the wounded. An injured American smokes as he lies on a litter. Victims of the attack move to Shanghai in barges. United States gun boat Oahu and British gun boat Lady Bird at the Shanghai port. Injured transferred aboard the boats. A casket wrapped in American flag aboard the boat. Men on the deck of the boat.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042124
Chinese people migrate towards west in advance of Japanese forces during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war

Millions of Chinese people migrating west and invoking a "scorched earth" policy to slow advance of Japanese forces invading from Shanghai and Nanking, during the second Sino-Japanese war. Long line of Chinese refugees making the trek on foot and transporting their belongings on hand-pulled carts. Chinese entering a library, a school, and a hospital to salvage contents and take them west. Chinese people pulling amazing large loads on carts. Narrator says they salvaged hundreds of millions of pounds of machinery from factories. Trucks and oxen being employed to move goods and equipment on a two thousand mile journey westward. A huge crowd of refugees gathered along a railroad, all rise up from the ground as a steam locomotive appears in the distance. Closeup of Chinese people climbing into rail cars. A glimpse of some intrepid travelers climbing atop the cars. Next, the crowd works to dismantle the railroad, placing rails and ties aboard the train for future use and to deprive the Japanese of them. View of the train, moving slowly, with people occupying every imaginable place. Many crowd the front of the locomotive, itself. Scenes of other trains show many persons riding on tarpaulins that have been tied across the tops of rail cars. Some simply sit on the car roofs. Others are Jam-packed together on open air flat cars. Sampans and barges loaded with refugees and supplies are seen moving westward on China's rivers. Closeups of vessels filled with people. Passengers rowing and working to move the boats. Lines of Chinese crewmen pulling their boats upstream through narrow river gorges. Closeups of gangs of men pulling on tow ropes, as men on the boats assist using long poles to push the boats forward. People walking with backpacks. Narrator speaks of 30 million people moving westward. More scenes of the masses of humanity on the trek.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025186
Aerial bombing of Shanghai City by Japanese during Second Sino-Japanese war

Japanese air attack against city of Shanghai, at start of 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Formation of Japanese 93-Shiki Soukei bombers in flight (Mitsubishi Type 93 Twin engine Light Bombers). Bombs falling from aircraft with city seen below. Bomb striking ground with large explosion. Civilians running for cover. Buildings on fire. Bombs striking ships in the Shanghai port. Buildings aflame. Japanese Aichi D3A1 aircraft diving. (anachronistic insert) Panic in the streets as people use any means of escape, carrying belongings in wagons and rushing into the International Settlement, by hundreds, or thousands, moving past British and French soldiers. French soldiers pass an infant to safety, across a barbed wire barrier. Shanghai International Settlement gates are closed as thousands remain outside, pressed against the barriers. Views of Chinese people crammed into the streets. Then they stampede into the center of the city, where some are trapped under falling buildings. More scenes of bomb explosions and burning buildings. A formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers in flight overhead. More bombs exploding in the city. Fires burning and heavy smoke rising over the city. Dead and injured Chinese civilians. Firefighters spraying water on burning building. People trying to aid one another amongst dead and dying everywhere. Wounded being carried on stretchers and dead being piled into an open truck. Animated map showing Japanese occupying the entire peninsula east of Shanghai and then executing a coordinated drive through Soochow (Suzhou) and Kahsingfu, toward Nanking (Nanjing).

Date: 1937, September 10
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025183
Street scenes in Shanghai, China, 1928.

The city of Shanghai, China. Buildings in the city. Point of view shots from a moving vehicle passing through busy streets of Shanghai China heading first north along the Bund; over Garden Bridge; then returning heading south to Nanking Road and then heading along Nanking Road. Vehicles parked on the sides of a street. Buildings along the streets. A streetcar moving. People walking on sidewalks. Vehicles including trucks, bicycles, horse carts, moving on the roads. Vehicles crossing a bridge. Traffic including horse drawn carriages and vehicles on a road. Huge buildings on either side of the road. Various views of the buildings and people on the road. Men riding bicycles, buses, and other motor vehicles on the road. Close up view of a streetcar or trolley on the road. Several banners with Chinese letters displayed on the buildings. Chinese men pulling rickshaws on the busy street.

Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066301