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Views of China and Japan in the period leading up to the 2nd Sino-Japanese war

Film opens with outline map of Japan shown in contrast to 20 times larger China and figures representing China's 6 times greater population. Map of China is shown in pieces representing its numerous internal fiefdoms. In contrast, Japanese soldiers are shown marching in review before their singular leader, Emperor Hirohito and other national military leaders. Film shows contrasting 20th century characteristics of China and Japan. Sun Yat-sen, who figured prominently in post-Imperial China, and is considered the founding father of the Republic of China, is shown speaking to crowds. Narrator states that in 1911, this man fathered a peoples' revolution which brought to an end, China's ancient Imperial government. View of Chinese people marching and carrying flags and banners. Books are shown comparing China's Sun Yat-sen to America's George Washingon. Sun Yat-sen's political statement, shown in Chinese, contains words similar those in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address. View of schools and colleges built in the new Republic of China. Chinese students shown in libraries. A couple dining in a Chinese hotel restaurant, overlooking other buildings. A tall clock tower looms at the same height outside their window. Steel being erected for a tall building. Architects at work. Scientist looking through a microscope. Technicians at work in a chemistry laboratory. Medical staff and patients in a modern hospital. Children in school under compulsory education program. Chinese people exercising their freedoms of expression and religion. The funeral of Sun Yat-sen, in 1925, attended by his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, and other Chinese leaders in military uniforms. Chinese people attending an outdoor ceremony. Examples of areas needing modernisation. Chinese workers using manually operated machinery to process fabrics. Commercial vessel plying a river using wind and sail only. Views of steam locomotives and trains being introduced to link parts of China. Trucks moving goods over roads (still unpaved). Miners working in open air mines, digging coal and iron. Molten tin being poured from a crucible. Machines performing complex tasks in a fabric mill and women tending spinning and knitting machines. School children engaged in collective outdoor games and exercise drills. Scene shifts to Japan, where Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse, leads military leaders in reviewing Japanese forces. A formation of Japanese Model 97 medium tanks passing in review, with tank commanders saluting from their turrets. Glimpse of Japanese steel mill. Headline in World-Telegram newspaper of 14 february, 1934, reads: "Tokyo House Passes Huge Arms Budget." A Los Angeles newspaper of 23 November, 1934, expands on the same story. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, 5, May, 1936, reports that Japan is strained by its huge arms costs.

Location: China
Date: 1936, May
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025180
Japanese attack on Manchuria, China, Hong Kong and Corregidor. Japanese industry and training of children for war.

Preparations for war in Japan. Japanese laborers work hard in various factories creating war materiel, armament, airplanes, tanks. Men and women at work in war production factories, together with child labor. Japanese troops mobilize and prepare for World War 2. Japanese soldiers on parade and Japanese tanks seen passing in review. Japanese children being trained and doing various physical exercises. Japanese young boys perform drills and war combat training, calisthenics, and classroom testing. Boys wearing only goggles receive some kind of light therapy or ultraviolet or sunray therapy. Japanese youth and soldiers learning various martial arts (possibly Kendo or Bōjutsu) and hand to hand combat. War in Manchuria. Newspaper headlines show the attack of Japan on Hong Kong and Corregidor. Japanese soldiers seen fighting in wars. Scenes of war devastation and dead civilians Manchuria and various areas where Japan has attacked. Bodies loaded onto carts and dead in streets. Japanese officer leading Japanese solders in a banzai cheer.

Location: Japan
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040809
Ashes of Japanese General Mineo Osumi are flown to Tokyo from China during World War II.

Funeral services for Japanese General Baron Mineo Osumi in Tokyo during World War II. A man carries a box, containing ashes of Japanese General Osumi, followed by other men at an airfield in Tokyo. All men dressed in black. Japanese pilots salute. A Japanese Buddhist monk bows in front of the pictures of Japanese Generals (killed along with General Osumi after their plane was shot down by Chinese guerrillas) with boxes of ashes placed in front of them. Portrait of General Mineo Osumi. Japanese General Hisaichi Terauchi leads relatives and officers.

Location: Tokyo Japan
Date: 1941, February 5
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675074576
Views of major Chinese city seemingly unaffected, while hosting Soviet advisors, during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (WW2)

Wide panning views from a high point, show rooftops and beyond, of buildings in densely built up major city in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Light snow seen on grassy spaces. A major park-like circle is seen containing a monument. A large building across the park displays a red star on its roof and an elaborate large decorative medal, suspended from the roof, containing a bas relief image of Joseph Stalin. (Although not readable in this sequence, a message in Russian at the top of the building reads: "ОСВОБОПИТЕПЬНЦЕ" (Liberator). Camera pans over more sections of the city including a major commercial street lined with substantial buildings.

Location: China
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054196
U.S. supply trucks move along the Burma Road during World War II.

A film illustrates the importance of the Burma Road during World War II. The Burma Road is presented as a vital link between Lashio, Burma and Kunming, China. A mountainous terrain. Supply trucks parked along the side of the road. Army trucks move along the mountain road.

Location: China
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060837
Chinese laborers build the Burma Road on the side of a mountain in World War II.

A film illustrates the importance of the Burma Road during World War II. The Burma Road is represented as a vital link between Lashio, Burma and Kunming, China during World War II. Chinese laborers are building the Burma Road. A laborer hammers a rock. Trucks move along a mountain road. Chinese men and women farmers work on a farm.

Location: China
Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060838
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