Chinese emigrate to the West as they flee the invading Japanese. Chinese military officers and officials in a meeting. They develop strategies to fight the Japanese invasion. Maps and charts on the table. They confer on territory yield, military strategy and industrial power for production of rifles and guns. An officer talks as he points to a wall map. They decide to move West into the mountains. Chinese men blow up roads, scorch fields, and blow up factories before proceeding westward. Factories in flames. People begin to move towards the West. Men, women and children walk, ride in hand rickshaws. They cross bridges and cities in the process of mass migration. People carry their belongings and machinery. Libraries, schools and houses are dismantled and carted away. Machinery moved in trucks and carts. People wait for a train near a railroad. They board a train bound westward. men dismantle railway tracks to leave no route for the enemy. People seated on railway carriages. Overcrowded boats and barges in a river. Elderly people and children in the boats. People cross a river running through a mountain gorge. People walk on the banks and pull load and boats with ropes. People climb hills and move further into the mountains. (World War II period).
Japanese invasion of China. Chinese soldiers blow the trumpet. Young men march in a field. Young men register in the Army. Millions of young people answer the call to fight for China. Volunteers from south, north, east and west China to form the people's army. Men and women with their children leave to join the forces. Drumming sound. New recruits train and perform a drill to drum beats. Soldiers practice martial arts, rifle handling, and shooting. Others train to care for the sick and wounded. Women soldiers in uniform. They learn to fire a gun. Pilots crowd around an officer. Planes in the background. Men from other countries prepare to fight for China. U.S. Colonel Claire Chennault of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers, talks to his men. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawks with the shark face emblems take off. Chinese soldiers march. Japan: Japanese officials in a meeting. Japanese troops penetrate China along the rivers. They rebuild destroyed rail roads using slave labor. A map depicts the Japanese strategy of cutting off Chinese supply lines. Japanese warships blockade the coast with the aim to isolate China. Japanese occupied ports in China. Japanese warships and boats in a Chinese port. Gas plants, gun factories and planes. Indochina map: The narrow gauge railway from sea to Kunming and a truck road to Chungking. The camel trail from Russia across the Gobi Desert. The railroad from Rangoon to Lashio in Burma. (World War II period).
The first image is the Rijksmuseum (Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A uniformed armed Dutch soldier stands guard in front of a building, in World War II. Uniformed Dutch troops carrying luggage and belongings, fill the platform at a train station. Next several, smoking cigarettes, are seen looking out a train window. An open truck transports several troops carrying rifles, along a street. Military vehicles carry troops and equipment across a bridge. A single stack working commercial ship leaves a port. Another ship named "Sumatra" (with two funnels) is tied up at a dock. View from below of two sailors installing a heavy machine deck gun. Sailors raising a torpedo from a barge. Dutch soldiers in battle gear occupy a sand-bagged coastal position, manning a tripod-mounted gun. A coastal artillery gun is seen in a rotating turret. Soldier manning a large searchlight. More coastal defense guns. A soldier with a machine gun in front of a windmill. Soldiers moving along a heavily sand-bagged trench. Lone soldier, with a rifle, occupying a trench.
150 screen editors arrive for Epochal World's Premiere in Miami, Florida. Railroad train arriving at station. Hollywood movie star Deanna Durbin leaves train station carrying flowers. She is greeted by crowd of fans, as she enters automobile and is escorted by motorcycles through Miami streets. Nighttime, celebrities arriving for the premier at the Lincoln Theatre in Miami. Screen writers from all over the country assemble for the premiere of the new hit 'Back Street'. Police officer on a white horse. A woman holds the flag of the United States. Star of the film, James Mason, arrives alone. Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer and actress, arrives for the premiere. Her many admirers wave and cheer.
Children lean out windows of railroad train climbing hill at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, as men make adjustments on track bed while the train approaches at slow speed. People outside Binion's Horseshoe casino and hotel in Las Vegas with neon lights flashing and illuminating a woman crossing the street. View of people walking on city streets, town streets, and inside buildings in America in mid 1960's, including views of various late 1950's through mid 1960's cars on roads. View of Belmar Hotel in New Jersey. Families on vacations hiking on ridge tops and beside large canyons; possibly Grand Canyon. Three young boys, shirtless, walking along a wooden fence on a large western ranch. Three women in bathing suits walking on sand of a beach. Heap of waste old 1940's and 1950's cars stacked up. A family with women and children walking along a city street. A line of boys with backpacks, possibly boy scouts, walking along a trail in the woods. Air Force Academy cadets marching on grounds of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Pedestrians crossing busy city streets and cars on city streets in American cities. Boy pulls a girl seated in a red wagon along a suburban sidewalk. Man crosses city street with garment wagon as a vendor pushes his food truck along the street. Man pushes a cart stacked high with cardboard boxes. Men on golf course wheel golf bags near the green. Man wheels gas tank along a seashore area. Post office mail carrier wheels mail bag on sidewalk of neighborhood. Women pushing babies in strollers and scenes along a street market
Players start race in Poughkeepsie, New York. Observation train carrying spectators move. Tough competition between teams. Boats race towards destination point pass under a bridge. Spectators sitting in the train see the race. Navy crew wins the race.
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