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City of Shanghai in China, including high aerial views of The Bund from a tall building, and street level views.
Map of China shows Beijing (Peiping), Nanjing (Nanking), Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton). Top shot shows busy port area of The Bund. Sign reads "The Bund." View from balcony of a high building looking out over the streets, buildings, and Huangpu River of the Bund area. Sign Nanking Road. Sign Sassoon House (20 East Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China) and Cathay Hotel. Chinese people get on bus. Double Decker bus and trams.
Streets of Shanghai and Chinese students engage in extracurricular activities
View of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing (formerly known as Peking or Peiping), China. Modern buildings stand alongside historical structures in China. A modern Chinese building in Shanghai, China. Pedestrians walking in the Bund district of Shanghai. Streets of Shanghai at night. Neon signs light the streets. Chinese primary school and university students engage in various extracurricular activities. children come out of school building and doing organized game at the playground. Older children perform Calisthenics. Schoolchildren and teachers dancing outdoors. Chinese boys engage in rough play. Students, mostly girls, and tutors leave building at the University. Men walk into hills with spades to plant new trees.
Japanese troops with Chinese civilians during the Sino-Japanese War
Japanese propaganda during the Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Rising Sun Flag on a ship sailing in the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Warships sail in the Huangpu River. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) Soldiers unload supplies and provisions from ships. Soldiers climb down ship gang plank. A crane lowers a bucking horse onto the dock. Japanese soldiers approach a horse on the dock. A Sumida M.2593 (Type 91) armored car being lowered from a ship. Japanese troops disembark in Shanghai. Soldiers feed a horse. A Japanese soldier with bayonet rifle on guard. Japanese soldiers distribute rice to Chinese children. Chinese civilians with Japanese soldiers. A Japanese soldier giving candies to children. Chinese boys holding baskets. A Japanese soldier lights a cigarette for an Chinese woman. Japanese soldier stands at edge of field. Chinese farmers harvest in fields. A girl with braided pigtails carries a basket of vegetables. A farmer wearing a Japanese red sun symbol on his sleeve threshes hay in the countryside. Japanese soldier offers flowers to a memorial for dead Chinese soldiers.
Japanese invade China during the Sino-Japanese War
A Japanese warship sails on rough sea. The Japanese Rising Sun Flag waving. Barrel of a ship artillery. Chinese characters displayed at the Headquarters of Japanese Naval Landing Party in Shanghai, China. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) Type 87 Crossley armored cars driving out of a garage. Vickers Crossley armored cars driving in China. Japanese infantry marching on a field and crossing a river on foot. Tanks crossing a river. Japanese troops move horses and supplies on a pontoon bridge and road. Calvary passing through corn field. Soldiers view a mountain. Japanese troops with camouflage helmets running. Japanese gunners firing artillery from fields. Infantry charging. A soldier charging with a bugle.
Beginnings of the Second Sino-Japanese war
Sign over American Embassy in China. Colonel William Mayer, former military attache in that embassy relates events precipitating Second Sino-Japanese war. Scenes of the Marco Polo bridge near Peking, on night of July 7, 1937, as Japanese artillery bombards the area. Animated map shows movement of Japanese forces out of Manchuria to occupy Peiping and Tientsin. Victorious Japanese troops stand atop a building, raising their flags and shouting cries of victory. Japanese army officers sit around a table smiling and contended and others walk in a group. Chinese artillery crews are seen retaliating as they fire field pieces at Japanese positions in Shanghai. Shells explode in background, and Chinese infantry advance through damaged buildings and rubble. Animated map shows Shanghai and other cities, and film transitions to view of the bustling city of Shanghai on the Yangtze River. In the seaport, large ocean liners and freighters, as well as tug boats and Junks, are seen. What looks like a Japanese Tachikawa Ki.54 Type 1 transport plane takes off over a Chinese pagoda. Double-decker buses travel through the streets. Rickshaws are also seen. Map outlines the foreign residential areas of the French Concession and the International Settlement. American, British and Japanese flags are shown in the International Settlement. Detachments of troops from Japan, Britain, France, and United States Marines are seen. A U.S. Marine is posted as a sentry at the Shanghai Power Company. Coolies carry heavy bucket on a long pole. British, French and Japanese troops also performed sentry duties. Japanese troops and armored cars are seen. A scuffle breaks out in August, 1937, and Japanese soldiers start moving in trucks, take up firing positions, and begin firing guns from their armored cars. Map shows Chinese counterattack pushing the Japanese contingent toward the Khangpoo River. Next it shows Japanese warships and reinforcements in the Yangtze River and their advance toward Woosung and Shanghai. Views of Japanese warships bombarding the shore and large explosions from their striking shells. Beachhead is shown South of Shanghai, where two divisions of Japanese infantry are seen arriving in landing craft. They advance across the fields toward Shanghai. Map shows Chinese withdrawals to West and South, toward Nanking and Hangchow. Chinese medics along with infantry march in retreat. Japanese pilots are seen being briefed. Next, Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are seen in flight, and bombardiers and other crew in them. Bombs falling on the city. Civilians running for cover as bombs explode. Aichi D3A1 aircraft dropping bombs. The Shanghai waterfront being bombed and civilians running.
Second Sino-Japanese War
Opening scene shows formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers in flight. View of bombardier at bomb sight inside a bomber. Bombs falling from the aircraft, upon the Chinese city of Shanghai, on a day in September, 1937. Ground level view of bomb exploding and Chinese civilians running for cover. A huge explosion throwing earth up. Aerial view of smoke rising from bomb strikes below. More ground views of bombs destroying structures. Chinese people fleeing across a bridge. Cluster of bombs falling from a Japanese airplane. More explosions and destruction. view from a G3M bomber, of others with bombs falling from them. View from above of civilians filling a street as they run for shelter. People on the ground rushing in all directions. Some are in horse-drawn carriages with luggage on top and other in rickshaws, apparently fleeing the city altogether. Bombing victims lying on the ground near destroyed structures. Heavy dark smoke rising from the attacks. Scene shifts to Japanese army officers entering the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo. Behind them is A Shinto Tori (Gate) and behind that, the monument (statue) of Omura Masujiro. Scene shifts again, to view of the Temple of Heaven, an ancient Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Peking (Beijing) China. Chinese agriculture. Crowds of Chinese people. Stone statue of traditional Chinese lion. Picture of 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by the German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, of Washington crossing the Delaware. Drawing of 15th century ship similar to one in Columbus'1492 voyage to America. Drawing of Roman Empire era building. Michelangelo’s statue of Moses. Drawing of ancient Egyptian pyramid and statue. Drawing of Chinese city and environs representing 4 thousand years ago. Extant ancient Chinese shrines and statues. Animated Relief map of China and surrounding countries of U.S.S.R., India,Burma,Thailand, Indo-China, Philippines, and Japan. Animation outlines China Proper. It also shows Manchuria and scenes from there of desolate mountainous land, with miners at work extracting raw materials. Mongolia and Sinkiang are outlined. The Gobi desert is seen with a long camel caravan crossing it. Closeup of nomads transporting animal skins by camel. The last region outlined is Tibet. The ice covered Himalayan mountains are shown. Buddhist monks praying in the courtyard of a shrine in Tibet. The Yellow, Si Kiang, and Yangtze Rivers are shown on the map. Views of Chinese sailing vessels.