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Chinese and Japanese soldiers fighting during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
Japanese propaganda during the Sino-Japanese War. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident battle between the Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) and the Imperial Japanese Army. “1937” flashes on the screen with explosion in the background. Graphics over newspaper reads, “Trouble started at Lukoukiao near Peking. When Chines troops fired on Japanese soldiers” A map depicting Beijing and neighboring cities and regions. “Lukowkiao (Marco Polo Bridge) is shown on the map. Sign reads “Lu Know Kiao”. Marco Polo Bridge (Fengtai District, China) near Beijing. The Lugou Xiaoyue monument (Wanping Bridge, Fengtai District, Beijing, China) with Chinese writings. A truck drives across Marco Polo Bridge. Aerial view of Marco Polo Bridge. Soldiers marching on a wooden bridge. Chinese women running on the street in Shanghai. Refugees loaded on a truck. A woman carrying a baby. Nationalist planes in flight, bombing Shanghai to drive out Japanese soldiers. “Chinese Warplanes rain bombs in Shanghai” reads one newspaper headline. “590 Killed..War At Shanghai’s Front Door” reads another headline. The Palace Hotel (Swatch Art Peace Hotel 23 East Nanjing Road (Bund 19), Shanghai 200002, China) in Shanghai. Debris and destroyed buildings from damage by Chinese Nationalist plane bombings. Large group of refugees leaving Shanghai. Chinese Nationalist plane in sky. Buildings on fire. “Nanyang Bros. Tob. Co. Ltd Godown No.3” building on fire. Japanese soldiers running in two straight lines. Japanese troops sit on moving truck. Japanese troops with fire hoses to put out flames. Another plane in the sky. A column of Japanese soldiers fire rifles in the air with Japanese flag behind them. Soldiers shooting anti-aircraft gun into the air.
Chinese government leaders in 1937, and Chinese troops and Boy Scouts being reviewed by Chinese officials.
Views of government leaders of the Republic of China in 1937. Chang Po-Ling, President of Nankai University. Po-Ling is seen with a little boy outside a house. Next, General Ho Ying Chin, Minister of War is seen in full military uniform while speaking. Next scene shows Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government, speaking into a microphone while standing on an outdoor stage. Next scene shows Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang seated in a garden. Chinese dignitaries including military officers walk down a flight of stairs and approach the camera position. A mass assembly of Chinese Army troops is seen. Next, Chinese Boys Brigade marches by a reviewing stand. Chinese Boy Scouts in uniform march with flags.
Animated map shows Japanese counter-attack against American forces and views of a deserted airfield in China (WW2)
Animated map shows Japanese counterattack from Changsha and Canton (Guangzhou) against American forces moving towards Fuchow (Fuzhou). View of a deserted airfield near Kweilin (Guilin) where Japanese ousted Americans. Artillery shells. Transporter train passes away. (World War II period).
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.
Women soldiers in Chinese Army.
Wreckage and rubble after the Japanese air raid on Canton (Guangzhou), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Chinese women soldiers move up a pile of rubble and march to the war front. They climb up a hill and fire at Japanese positions. Girls assembled as an officer instructs them.
Chinese workers raise “Little Red Book”, listen to May Day speeches during Cultural Revolution
International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) parade in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Chinese workers raise their copies of the "Little Red Book" (“Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung”) by Chairman Mao Zedong. Boys cheering while they hold a Maoist banner. Guangdong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee Secretary Huang Yongsheng delivers a speech to the crowd. Chinese proletariat men and women listen to Huang Yongsheng’s speech. Face of a Chinese woman watching May Day speech. Crowds holding Cultural Revolution propaganda banners and portraits of Mao Zedong during the celebration. Chinese workers clapping after Huang Yongsheng’s speech. Chinese women hold up their copies of the “Little Red Book”. Chinese girls and women with Cultural Revolution posters of Mao Zedong listens to Huang Yongsheng’s May Day speech. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers in the crowd. An elderly CCP official reads his speech. Chinese students, probably Red Guards, deliver May Day speeches to the crowd. Crowds of Chinese workers cheering.
