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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.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060838
China builds Burma Road to carry war materiel and supplies and creates flood of Yellow River to thwart Westward expansion of Japanese occupied territory

Japanese officials meeting in strategy session. Japanese infantry on mission to cut Chinese supply lines during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Black smoke rises as they move along a river bank. Chinese prisoner-workers are forced to rebuild railroads destroyed by the Chinese people during their great Westward trek. Japanese soldier closely guards workers. A Japanese army armored train underway on the rebuilt railroad, as Japanese soldiers cheer. Animated map shows China's supply lines by sea, to Tsingtao, Hangchow, and Amoy, cut off by Japanese naval blockade. Japanese Navy launch with officers and crew moving near commercial ships as they take over Chinese river ports. War materiel and other supplies destined for China, including trucks, sit idle, unable to be transported to their destinations. Large oil tanks and drums of gasoline are shown, as well as gun barrels and a flightline filled with parked Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asakaze (DD-3) and another, next to it, in a Chinese river port. A Japanese freighter with anchored weighed, secured by long lines to a wharf. Small boats flying Japanese Naval ensigns are next to it. View of map showing china, Burma, Indo-China, and Chungking, with Japanese blockading fleet stationed in the South China Sea. It traces path of narrow gauge rail line from Indo-china to Kumming,China, where it connected to an overland road to Chungking. Next it traced the old Camel Caravan route, across China, from Russia. Narrator notes these were to small to be useful and too close to Japanese-occupied territory. Next, the map traces a railroad that from the port of Rangoon to Lashio, Burma. It is separated from the road to Chungking, by mountains and gorges. Views of the actual mountainous terrain. Animal pack trains moving through the area. Construction engineers in a large drafting room designing a road to transit the area. View of modern road-building caterpillar tractor equipment of the type needed to accomplish this. View of Chinese laborers using manpower instead. They push large rollers and employ pickaxes and other hand-held tools to carve away and dig road beds. Masses of Chinese laborers at work, carving a road along the edge of a mountain. Two-men teams using manual tampers to pound down the roadbed. Children are employed along with adults. A woman with a baby on her back, pounding large rocks into gravel, surrounded by other children doing the same. View from above of the "Burma Road," the product of their labors, winding its way through the mountains and gorges. Many scenes of trucks moving along portions of the Burma Road. P-40 airplanes flying past white cumulus clouds, overhead. Animated map shows continued expansion of Japanese occupied areas to encompass two thirds of the rail lines in China with goal of controlling the remainder, starting at Chengchow, in Summer, 1938. View of Chengchow region, on banks of the Yellow River. Map illustrates flow pattern of the Yellow River. View from past of the Yellow River's Spring floods toward the Sea, with Chinese people throwing rocks onto dikes that keep the river flowing in a more Northerly direction than its former course. Illustration shows how with Japanese encrouching on Chengchow, the Chinese decided to destroy those dikes and allow the river to flood over its former more Southerly course. Japanese soldiers being inundated by the flooding river. Japanese infantry and tanks regrouping on their occupied side of the new (old) path of the Yellow River. Local Chinese residents of Chengchow, wade with belongings as they leave their flooded homes.

Date: 1938
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025189
The Battle of Changsha at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese war (WW2)

Japanese infantry, accompanied by several Type 95 Ha-Go tanks, wade across shallow rivers East of Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, China, during World War II. Closeups of soldiers with their field packs and rifles. They reach a bluff where they encounter heavy resistance from Chinese defenders.View of Japanese soldiers spread out in defensive positions overlooking the top of the bluff. The sound of machine gun fire is heard continuously. The Japanese forces fire type 3 heavy machine guns from positions in woods and marshes. Some fire mortars. A flight of three aircraft is seen briefly overhead. A bomb bursts in the midst of the Japanese forces. Infantry are seen through barbed wire as they move single file across a grassy field in the distance. Closer view of Japanese soldiers in a field of tall grass bounded by some trees. in Closeup of Japanese soldiers under heavy Chinese fire. A bomb or artillery shell bursts close to them. Closeup of Japanese gunners firing a Type 91 10-cm-howitzer,with wooden spoked wheels. Next view shows the same gun firing with a group of Japanese soldiers behind it, some using binoculars to observe the shells striking. The final scene shows numerous shells striking in a line with white smoke rising from each in the distance.

Date: 1941, September
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675038832
Japanese forces occupy British and American areas of the Shanghai International Settlement, following attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II

Inhabitants of the International Settlement in Shanghai, China, line sidewalks to watch as Japanese Imperial marines enter and occupy the British and American controlled parts of the city in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese marines in open trucks wave to the spectators. Camera focuses momentarily on a large Japanese flag displayed on one building, where Japanese guards stand outside. Japanese soldiers climb down from a truck and enter the building. Several armed Japanese marines walk in the street. Some people in the Settlement seem intent on going about their normal activities, notwithstanding the presence of the Japanese military. However, one street is empty except for Japanese soldiers who stand guard. At the doorway of a building there, a sign is posted in Japanese referring to its occupation by Japanese military. A Type 92 Chiyoda Armored Car proceeds down a street, heading a parade of Japanese marines, led by one carrying the Japanese Rising Sun flag. Camera pans over boats in the harbor. Most appear to passenger-carrying ferry boats. At the end, the narrator refers to the sinking of the HMS Peterel and the capture of the USS Wake, the last British and American gunboats in Shanghai. The British riverboat HMS Peterel, operating on the Yangtse river, refused to surrender and was sunk (although nobody was killed) and the American Gunboat, USS Wake (PR-3) is seen near the end of the film, flying the Japanese flag, at the Shanghai dock where it was captured by the Japanese.

Date: 1941, December 8
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675058751
Japanese soldiers occupy the International Settlement in Shanghai after Pearl Harbor attack in World War II. Battle for Hong Kong

Japanese soldiers in Shanghai, China occupying the International Settlement following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in World War 2.. Japanese military trucks loaded with soldiers enter the north end of the Bund passing by the British Consulate. Japanese flag flutters from the top of the HSBC headquarters. A Japanese guard stands at the entrance to the HSBC headquarters next to a sign in Japanese and English that the premises have been occupied. Japanese Marines march on the street. Buildings along the side of the street. A soldier hands out warning notices writing in Chinese to a crowd of Chinese people explaining the occupation. The very end show Japanese troops in Kowloon shelling Hong Kong Island which is visible in the background.

Date: 1941, December 8
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Chinese
Clip: 65675062284
Implementation of the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in Red China.

Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021675