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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.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079750
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.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040300
Various scenes in Hankow, China

Map of China shows Beijing (Peiping), Hankow / Hankou (now part of present-day Wuhan), Nanjing (Nanking), Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton). The city of Hankow on the Yangtze River. Junks on river. Naval boat. Transport - Air lines and land routes inside China. Map. Pilot on small sea plane. Aerials of rural area. Railway steam train running. Shadow of people on roof of train as it passes through countryside.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040301
Japanese troops break through near Zhongshan Gate and mount the walls of Nanking in China.

Japanese troops fight outside the walls of Nanking, China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese soldiers on tanks. Smoke arises from explosions in the fields. Troops fire from behind bushes. Soldiers with a flag in the field. They fire artillery, advance, and take cover. Soldiers walk along the Zhongshan wall (China, Jiangsu, Nanjing, Bai Xia Qu). Explosions near the wall. A destroyed part of the wall. Japanese soldiers carry a ladder. They break through near Zhongshan Gate and mount the wall. Soldiers climb up the wall and enter tunnels. Soldiers seated by a barricade of sandbags. Japanese writing on the wall. The Japanese troops give a 'Banzai Cheer' as they wave Japanese flags atop the wall.

Date: 1937, December
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675031292
Pre- WWII Chinese anti-Japanese propaganda.

Nationalist Chinese school books with anti-Japanese propaganda. Slate reads “Slogans in school books: “Down with Japan” “Oust the Japanese””. Schoolbook depicts anti-Japanese propaganda. Illustration shows Japanese soldiers aiming their bayonets at the Chinese. Another children’s schoolbook. A cartoon with Japanese invaders depicted as tigers. Chinese men taming a Japanese tiger in bed. An anti-Japanese pamphlet circulating in China. Anti-Japanese newspaper headlines posted in public display case on sidewalk in China. Chinese men reading newspapers posted on outdoor display boards on sidewalk.

Date: 1937
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079743
Japanese propaganda explains necessity of Sino-Japanese War

Montage with graphics sells Japanese propaganda claiming Japanese hatred as cause for Sino-Japanese War. Newspapers declaring the non-aggression pact between Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Animated map depicting how the Communist Soviet Union can encroach China’s territories. Narrator claims “It is in order to stop this power of evil, a real everlasting peace in Asia that Japan’s soldiers and sailors are giving their lives,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe reads a speech defending the Sino-Japanese War.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079749