Industries in Shanghai, China. Men at work. A crane in operation. Chinese laborers push out a bridge grinder. A gate with sign 'Andersen, Meyer & Company, Ltd.' painted on it. The gate is opened and a truck rolls in. The gate is closed. Chinese workers carry goods into a godown. A sign in the background reads ' Getz Bros & Co. Godown 6'. A worker sitting under a sign 'Fisk tire Co.'. Exterior of a building. Sign ' American Engineering Co. of China' on the building.
Industries in Shanghai, China. Chinese laborers work with tobacco hogsheads at Universal Leaf Tobacco Company. They roll a hogshead up an incline. Trucks loaded with hogsheads move out of a gate. The sign at the top of the gate reads 'Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. of China'.
Conditions in China in 1927-28. A large crowd of people is assembled outdoors, in Shanghai, China. Several display Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) flags. Next, the people are seen scrambling for pamphlets that are being thrown into their midst. Camera pans across the crowd, revealing that they are assembled near a waterfront pier on the Huangpu River, where a number of ships are docked. Closeup of the pier shows men carrying cargo and packages through the crowd. Scene shifts to two men apparently distributing literature from a truck, and a crowd (mob) of people pushing into an official-looking building. Next, a contingent of armed Chinese sailors marches through the throng. They pass by the people crammed into the doorway of the official-looking building, paying no attention to them. More armed Chinese military march through the area. Views of people jammed into the streets. A line of armed British soldiers is seen trying to control a crowd (probably near the International Settlement). They push the demonstrators back. Scene shifts to a group of Chinese men seated on the ground, eating bread. someone gives one of them a small tin box that he attempts to pry open.
A parade in Shanghai, China. Chinese scouts parade in Shanghai, China. Mayor Wu Teh-Chen, distinguished executive of a Chinese city reviews the parade. People gather in a large number top watch the parade.
United States Military Mission visits the Chinese Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yan'an, Shaanxi province in China during World War II. An animated map of China. Horse drawn carts and natives walk on a hillside in a village. The American soldiers walk with Communist leaders and Chinese military officers to a countryside village. Chinese Communist leaders at the village smile and talk with the soldiers of American Mission.
U.S. Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yenan, Shensi province, China during World War II. Chinese officers and General Patrick Hurley prepare strategies for combat with Japanese posts in China. General Hurley transmits a message on radio equipment. Chinese soldiers at a military base. Posters of Chinese Communist leaders and leaders of Allied nations like Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and others.