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Parade float, street performers during Communist May Day celebrations in Guangzhou, China

International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) parade in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Students in period costumes pose on top of a parade float in Guangzhou. The float is adorned with communist banners. Crowds watch the float parade. Chinese communist workers march with Cultural Revolution propaganda banners during the parade. A man wearing a Mao suit cheering. Communist street performances during the May Day parade. Chinese girls perform gymnastics on the streets. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official shake hands with people. Two People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers stand guard. Chinese women shaking pom-poms and perform a dance. Faces of smiling Chinese men and women in the crowd. Girls perform a banner dance. Street musicians perform with instruments. Chinese gymnast girls perform jumping jacks.

Date: 1968, May 1
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080224
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).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675024839
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.

Date: 1938, July 13
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049423
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.

Date: 1968, May 1
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080223
Views of street scenes and Songhua River in Harbin, Manchukuo

Flag of the Soviet-administered Chinese Eastern Railway, flying over the Harbin train station in Manckukuo. (It contains Manchukuo canton and small hammer, sickle, and star on the field.) Many cars waiting outside the station building. Overview of the city. Saint. Sofia Cathedral of Harbin seen clearly. Shoppers and pedestrians walking on crowded sidewalk under many electric power wires strung overhead. Japanese flag displayed at corner shop. Various ethnic peoples seen on sidewalks. Kitayskaya Street (China Street) lined with buildings and stores. Patrons seated on veranda of a restaurant overlooking the Songhua River. Boats on the river and bridge in far background. Closeup showing that some are houseboats in the river. Western persons in bathing attire on a sandy beach at the river. (No other ethnic groups are represented.) Sun sparkling on the water. Two Western men row a boat with a woman in the back seat. A couple of small day-sailor boats are seen under sail. View of railroad bridge over the Songhua River. A sidewheeler boat flying the Japanese Rising Sun Naval Ensign flag.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Chinese
Clip: 65675025073
USAAF B-25 Mitchell aircraft take off from an air base in China and drop bombs over Hong Kong during World War II.

Although narrator states "General Chennault's United States 10th Air Force," this film actually depicts Chennault's 14th Air Force formed in 1943. Its B-25s and P-40s are shown during an attack on Hong Kong during World War 2 U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell aircraft take off from an air base in China to attack Hong Kong. The aircraft in flight. Propellers of the aircraft. Aerial view of the area below. Bombs being released over Hong Kong. View of crew in cockpit of B-25.The aircraft landing at an air base in China after the mission. P-40s with tiger teeth paint job parked on the airport tarmac. Aircrews relax with refreshments on the ramp.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066009