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Abandoned Japanese bombers parked in deep grass at Japanese military airfield right after end of World War II

Film begins showing a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 bomber parked in the grass at a Japanese airfield right after the end of World War II. American fighter aircraft fly overhead. Camera pans around the Japanese bomber with closeup of its engines. View from the rear showing its twin tail. Next, the camera focuses on a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 medium bomber showing it from a tail view. The camera pans around the aircraft and then to many other multi-engine aircraft parked all over the field. Camera takes closeup of another Mitsubishi Ki-67. Film ends as a U.S. Army Air Forces C54 transport plane flies overhead.

Date: 1945, September
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024863
Montage of scenes including Mongolia, the French Concession in China, and Japanese and U.S. warships

A rough map of Asia is shown.Inner Mongolian horsemen are seen silhouetted against the sky on a hill top where several tents are pitched. They appear to be gathering for a meeting of sorts. Closeups of the horsemen gathered and listening to one speaking to them. Snow-covered mountains are in the far distant background. Various views of the horsemen moving about in groups. An old Chinese man smokes a long pipe. The national flag of the Republic of China flies in front of a building. View of entrance to the French Concession in Shanghai, where several French uniformed police hold the French tricolor flag and others monitor persons coming and going. A group of Chinese soldiers remove items from their clothing as they prepare to enter the area. A group of French firemen is seen and then a number of Chinese civilians, some carrying belongings, and some with children, are seen evacuating an area, under supervision of Chinese men wearing armbands. Scene shifts to view from starboard bow of a large vessel at sea. The ocean is quite rough and waves break with foam. View from the deck, upward shows various lines and rigging of the ship. More views show it to be a battleship. Formations of Japanese warships on maneuvers, firing their heavy guns. Formation of U.S. Dreadnought era battleships firing their 12-inch guns in double turrets. View from bridge of one, with forward double guns visible below, while she is underway in heavy seas. Naval guns on a battleship, being maneuvered into position for firing. Smaller Japanese gunboats being led in formation by a 3-stacker Isokaze-class destroyer. The Japanese battleships Nagato and her sister ship Mutsu, both displaying curved funnels. Other Japanese warships, including Kamikaze-class destroyers, the aircraft carrier Ryūjō, and a Kongō-class battleship.

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025030
Emperor Hirohito at a Japanese military review with troops and aircraft; Japanese warships; Invasion of Manchuria

Opening scene shows a Japanese military brass band playing at the edge of a parade ground. View shifts to behind a group of military officers standing side-by-side. They all salute as Emperor Hirohito passes by in an Imperial 18th Century horse-drawn coach, followed by two more just like it. Camera continues to view from behind the officers, as a mounted officer joins in front of them. Next, a mounted officer passes carrying the Japanese national flag. Following him is Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse, followed by a general on a black horse and six mounted high-ranking Japanese military officers. Scene shifts to a reviewing stand that a Japanese General shareswith several others, including a civilian. The general speaks into a microphone. The next view is from behind a formation of uniformed military officers. The emperor leads a procession of mounted officers along the center of the parade ground. The formation of officers is seen from the front, as they salute. The Emperor's entourage appears to include a British military officer (possibly military attache)and other foreign military officers. Glimpse of Japanese warplanes in formation overhead. Emperor Hirohito on his white horse, saluting as a small colorguard passes and then large formations of troops pass in review. Tractors, pulling field artillery pieces and horse-drawn artillery pass in review. A contingent of mounted lancers move past at a canter, followed by mounted cavalry. Scene shifts completely to the Japanese dreadnought battleship, Nagato (with curved forward funnel) moored amidst other ships in a harbor, including sailing vessels. Camera pans across the harbor where other warships are seen in the distance. Next, the Nagato is seen slowly moving in the harbor. Camera ship passing a stationary Japanese destroyer. Complete change of scene, to Manchuria, where Manchurians wave Japanese flags as mounted Japanese troops pass them on a road. Japanese troops entering a fort, accompanied by a military band. They proceed past a parked Japanese Type 92 Chiyoda armored car. Japanese troops celebrating victory with Banzai cheer. Japanese throwing food to Manchurians. Japanese troops engaged in live fire training exercise over a stretch of barran terrain. Japanese soldiers advancing against simulated enemies. A Japanese officer calling his troops to attention in a farm yard. Manchurian farmer, nearby is upset by damage to his garden. Closeup of the field officer in a couple of settings, and speaking to his troops. His troops arrange their rifles into small stacks for ready retrieval and then proceed to repair damage they created in the farmer's garden. Closeup of the farmer thanking the officer for their help. He then joins the troops using his hoe to assist them.

Date: 1931
Duration: 7 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025041
Japanese military airpower in early 1930s

Animated cartoon shows a Japanese soldier loading and firing an artillery field piece. The shell travels over a distant hill and explodes. Next scene shows large gathering of people with banners at a military airfield where aircraft and anti-aircraft equipment and guns are on display. A factory is at the edge of the field and its smoke stack is emitting dark black smoke. Viewed from beside parked Nakajima Army Type 91 Fighter plane, is seen some sort of table set up in the middle of the field. A photographer is taking a picture of it. Camera moves to tail of the airplane revealing an anti-aircraft search light parked next to it. Glimpse of Japanese red ball roundel painted on side of the airplane. General Sadao Araki, Minister of War, standing by a table, near a microphone, is given a rolled document. He presents it to a robed priest. Next, a shinto priest in white, waves a garland in front of a parked Type 91 Fighter plane to bless it. Two Japanese pilots place something on the table at center of the field. One is next seen in cockpit of a Type 91 plane and then taxiing and taking off on the field, as spectators watch from sidelines. A second Type 91 is then also seen taking off at the same time in formation on the right wing of the first. An animated cartoon shows many parked airplanes and several proceeding in a column from a hangar. These appear to be more modern (like single wing Type 91s) and dispel and replace all the other airplanes in the cartoon. Next, a squadron of Japanese Army biwing airplanes are seen taking off in loose formation from a dirt field. Aerial view of several biwings flying over a Japanese army airfield. Hangars and other buildings are visible on the ground below. Two of the aircraft are seen flying in close formation near the camera plane. Sunlight glints off their wings. View from above of biwing airplanes in formation below, flying over agricultural fields. A formation in flight viewed from below. Three Type 91 single wing aircraft flying in formation high overhead. Several aircraft maneuvering independently in the sky. The three Type 91 planes in formation heading straight toward the camera plane, and passing close overhead. Aerial view of a loose formation of Mitsubishi 2MB1 - Type 87, light bombers silhouetted in flight. A lone type 91 performing aerobatic maneuvers. Shadow of the camera-carrying bi-wing army plane being cast on the ground as it flies above it. The shadow grows larger as the airplane gets closer to the ground (apparently landing). Final scenes show several biwing airplanes taking off in loose formation. They have upper wing dihedral, smaller lower wings, backward slanted vertical stabilizers, and tail skids..

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025045
Japanese infantry and tanks train and exercise in wintertime. Japanese infantry and cavalry in fair weather training exercises.

Japanese infantry are seen in live fire exercises during the winter. They fire small arms and machine guns as they advance from point to point across snow-covered fields. Japanese soldiers firing a machine gun from a position hidden beneath frozen snow-covered foliage. Japanese soldiers climbing the roof of a building and knocking down its brick chimney to gain a protected firing position. Several views of Japanese troops firing the guns on their Type 89 Yi-Go tanks, as they advance in the snow. The tanks running through barbed wire defenses and maneuvering. Closeups of tank negotiating deep ditch and climbing hill in snow. Scene shifts away from snowy conditions to Japanese infantry and mounted cavalry exercises in fields and woods. Cavalry enter a wooded area. Infantry run across fields, and ignite smoke screen generators. Soon white smoke obscures the scene. Soldiers fire from prone positions. Cavalry executes several charges across the fields, recorded by the camera from various points of view.

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025047
Japanese Army conducts realistic war game with live-fire exercises involving infantry, armor, artillery and aircraft.

Film opens showing a Japanese Type 89 Yi-Go tank heading straight toward the camera. Next, mounted artillerymen ride up a hill with team of horses pulling caissons. More are seen passing trees, pulling caissons and Type 91, 105mm light field howitzers. They raise a lot of dust and they race across a barren stretch of land. Elsewhere, Several soldiers are seen with large canvases laid out on the ground. Small rolled up tents appear to be lined up on one canvas. Meanwhile, the artillerymen are starting to set up positions at various spots along the crest of a hill. Closeup of one of their horses. Next, batteries of anti-aircraft guns are seen pointing skyward, each surrounded by a team of about 10 soldiers, are seen firing. Kawasaki biwing aircraft fly overhead in formation, and the anti-aircraft guns are lowered as they pass. The guns are elevated again and resume firing. Scene shifts to the field artillery, where crews are manning the 105mm howitzers and firing them. Closeup of one of the gun crews in action. Shells are seen bursting on a sandy area near a shoreline in the distance. Some field artillery under camouflage nets. An army telegrapher sends messages with his key. Several soldiers at a field communications center also send messages. Two high wing monoplanes fly overhead. Closeup from behind Japanese artillery crew firing their field piece. More views of shells striking in distance. The guns under camouflage nets are seen firing. A huge explosion nearby throws large amounts of earth into the air. Views of the antiaircraft guns and crews dissolves into views of shells exploding. Two soldiers crawl along the ground, dragging a long pole with them. Soldiers jump up and abandon their position just before a big explosion occurs there. In final scene, several soldiers are running and shouting.

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025048