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United States Marine Corps in a town of Peiping (Beijing) in China.

United States Marine Corps in Beijing (Peiping), in China. Farmlands and Chinese civilians in countryside. A Chinese farmer carries a bamboo carrying pole. Children give the camera a thumbs up. Grave barrows in the countryside. Various tourist attractions in Beijing, including Tiananmen Gate (Dongcheng, China, 100051). Marines stands by an artillery gun. Gate of the United States consulate in Beijing. Marines seated around a large gate. Rickshaws and cars pass by on streets of Peking. Point of view shot traveling down city street in China in a rickshaw with head of rickshaw driver immediately in front. Marines look at handicrafts being display at roadside.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060069
United States Marines visit various places in town of Peiping (Beijing) in China.

United States Marine Corps in Beijing (Peiping, Peking), China. A man enters a club. Military Police stand guard outside. Marines in a club for enlisted personnel. United States Marines dance with Chinese women. A Buddhist pagoda. Marines look at monuments on a mountainside. View of Forbidden City. Picture of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek at Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing. Pillar of smoke rises near the Forbidden City. View of courtyard and throne in the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohe Dian) inside the Forbidden City. The White Dagoba in Beihai Garden. Marines stand in front of Screen of Seven Dragons. Lama Temple with a statue of Laughing Buddha and other statues. Marines in front of Temple of Heaven (1 Tiantan E Rd, Dong Cheng Qu, China, 100061). Marine talks to his wife and son back home in Hawaii. Two men enters a gate.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060070
Street scenes in Beijing, China during the Great Leap Forward.

Life in Beijing, China during the Great Leap Forward. Chinese men stand with their bicycles in Beijing traffic. Bicycles, cars and pedicabs with heavy sacks on the street. A Chinese man pushes a baby in a stroller made of wicker. A wood burning bus with wood gasifier mounted on back. A large, dilapidated Chinese building with signage as seen from a moving car. Pedestrians run while crossing the street. A traffic officer stands under an umbrella as he directs passing vehicles. A truck pulls a string of trailers carrying a load of coal and decorated with banners and paper flowers celebrating the Great Leap Forward. A stupa, possibly The White Dagoba Stupa, Beihai Park. Chinese family including grandparents and children. Young men digging with shovels in front of a Chinese pagoda. Chinese men with bicycles waiting to cross the road. People visit the Monument to the People's Heroes (Tiananmen Square, Dongcheng, Beijing, China). A girl walking outside St. Joseph’s Church (74 Wangfujing, Dong Dan, Dongcheng, China) in Beijing. Bicycles pass apartment buildings and government offices in Beijing.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079765
Chinese woman factory workers and families in China.

Chinese women in the workforce during the Great Leap Forward. The newly built observatory of Beijing Planetarium (138 Xizhimen Outer St, Dong Wu Yuan, Xicheng District, Beijing, China). Men working at construction site near the Beijing Planetarium. Laborers pulling a cart on the street. A floral red fabric running through a weaving machine at a textile factory. Chinese women working at combing machines in textile factory. Chinese women factory workers share a meal together, eating noodles from bowls. A Chinese factory worker nurses her child during her break time. Chinese boys wearing red scarves and holding flowers. A maternity hospital in Beijing, possibly the Beijing Obstetrics Gynecology Hospital. Hospital clinic windows in Beijing. A female Chinese doctor working at a community clinic stamps a document. A worker’s family grandmother holding a granddaughter in her arms. A woman cooks in the courtyard of a factory workers' apartment building.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079766
Great Leap Forward agricultural show at Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

Visitors from all over China attend the agricultural exhibition at the Beijing Exhibition Center (Beijing Exhibition Center, Zoo, Xicheng District, China) during the Great Leap Forward. Agricultural machinery and equipment are on display. Floral and traditional Chinese textiles on display. Rototilling machines. A visitor turns the wheel of rice transplanting machine. Chinese visitors watch a running combine harvester. Chinese farming tractors on display including some that run on alternate fuels. A steam tractor on display. Men sitting on red tractors. New Chinese made cars. Turbines of different sizes on display. Chinese boys climb on a steam locomotive. One of the first steam shovels made in China. Irrigation machinery of various types on display, including wind powered, pour water into a pond through pipes. A woman opens a solar cooker and removes lid of steaming pot inside. An elderly Chinese man and a woman talking to each other. Chinese children playing by the pool outside the Beijing Exhibition Center. Chinese girls smiling.

Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079767
War between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing (Peiping), China.

The Second Sino-Japanese War begins in China. Aerial shots of the Great Wall of China, near Beijing. Scenes of war between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing (Peiping), China. Gunners fire artillery on the field. Explosion and smoke from artillery shell explosion. Chinese civilians evacuate and leave Beijing. Japanese troops marching and hold Japanese flag. Japanese soldiers ride donkeys and horses. Chinese troops and cavalry on the streets and in fields. Chinese General reviews new troops. The General gives green signal to squadron of fighter planes at an airfield. A Chinese general (likely Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek) watch Chinese fighter planes take off. The fighter planes take off from the airfield.

Date: 1937, July 14
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029453
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