An Arab shepherd tends his grazing goats as convoy of trucks passes on road behind him. Military trucks transporting World War II European Jewish refugee passengers drive on the road. Jewish women and men climbing down from the back of truck outside a train station. Passengers carry luggage. Crowds of Jews enter the railroad train station. British troops stand on guard. Jewish passengers board a train. Jewish men smiling. Jewish men and women waving good-bye as they leave the station platform. A man waves his hat as he departs the platform. Happy passengers wave their hands inside the train. An officer inspects the papers of a Jewish woman before boarding. A young Jewish girl holding on to wooden half-door. Two photographers use their cameras to take pictures.
Post-war revival of British industry and exports after World War 2. Nuffield Exports cars seen in United Kingdom. Dock workers adjusts a wagon carrying a Nuffield Exports automobile crate. The crate bears labels that read “Morris Cars”, “Nuffield Exports” and “RG Colombo”. Men push the wagon with crate. Container label on the side reads “The British Motor Industry delivers the goods”. Crate lifts cargo next to a shipping container that reads “Austin Cars for the world” and “Auckland”. A dockside railroad car moves past container. Shipping container labeled “Britain delivers the goods” on dock.
Point of view shot from rear car of railroad train being pulled by a steam locomotive over the South Manchuria Railway in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. View of railroad tracks stretching out over plains and flatlands behind, and smoke from the locomotive drifts behind. The train is stopped at a sign reading Manchuria (in Cyrillic) and in Chinese. The locomotive emits steam. Camera pans to a railroad station building at the side of the railroad. Next is seen, a small Japanese graveyard containing several stone monuments and a number of upright grave markers. The ground is snow-covered. Change of scene shows two groups of high-flying military aircraft in V formations. The next scene is an aerial view from an airplane flying over a river valley surrounded by rugged terrain. Next is seen a column of Japanese Army vehicles moving across snow-covered terrain. An armored car moves ahead of the column. (It is a Secherad-Panzerkraftwagen Sumida, Model 2590, armored car.) A long column, of mostly army trucks, follows. Japanese soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets,escort a soldier carrying their unit colors, furled and in a case. An informal group of Japanese soldiers, watch from nearby. A long column of Japanese infantry, move across desert terrain. A troop column interspersed with vehicles, continues over rugged desert terrain. A column of military vehicles. Aerial view of Japanese bombers in loose V formation. One circles slowly. An unidentified Japanese twin engine high wing monoplane (possibly amphibian) with open cockpit, drops a torpedo, or bomb. Sudden scene change to a bomb falling and explosions on the ground as bombs strike. Pursuit aircraft maneuvering. Three Japanese Mitsubishi 2MB1 - Type 87 bombers in formation, dropping many bombs. Aerial views of bombs striking, and ground views of explosions.
Chinese troops start to board the C-47 plane during World War II. U.S. Air Force personnel can be seen at loading point. An officer talks with two of the U.S. Air Force crewmen. The two crewmen enter plane. C-47 plane taxis left to right. Troops march on airstrip.
Japanese occupation of Shanghai International Settlement following attack on Pearl harbor, in World War 2. Civilians are seen gathered in the Bund area Of Shanghai. Across the street are seen buildings of the International Settlement, including the British consulate and adjacent headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Several Japanese marines drive past the camera, in vehicles, including two Type 92 Chiyoda Armored Cars. They lead a column of open trucks filled with Imperial Marines, who wave at spectators on the sidewalks. Camera zooms in on the HSBC building entrance, where Japanese soldiers and marines climb down from a truck and deploy to the building entrance and down the street, on foot. Next, marines are seen guarding and patrolling a now empty street. Camera focuses on a large Japanese rising sun flag displayed on the now occupied HSBC building. Marines guard the entrance of the building, where a paper sign is posted announcing the occupation in Japanese. Next, another Chiyoda Armored Car is seen leading a parade of Japanese marines. View from within the marching marines as they proceed along the street. They pass a group of rickshaws and drivers at one point. Camera zooms in momentarily on the rising sun flag carried by a color guard at head of the marchers. Scene shifts to boats in the Shanghai harbor. Most are ferry boats on one kind or another. But one is the American river gunboat, USS Wake (PR-3), which was captured while docked, and now displays the Japanese flag. At end of film, Japanese narrator mentions this, and also that the British gunboat, HMS Peterel (unseen) was sunk.
Fu Tan University students gather and select a group representing them for journey to Nanking and lay their objective before President Chiang. Crowd gathered outside a railroad station. Police guards keep a watch. The selected people move ahead to board a train for the capitol without paying fares followed by police guards. Train leaves the station.
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