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.
United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Mrs Patricia Nixon on their tour to the People's Republic of China. Statue of Chairman Mao Zedong, at the Shanghai Exhibition Center where various samples of Chinese industry, science, and technology are on display. Photographs of famous communists Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Engels on the wall of the hall. Press reporters from U.S. and China inside the hall to cover the event.
Aftermath of Japanese attack on United States ship Pannay in Nanking, China. Men injured as a result of Japanese attack on Pannay carried on litters and in slings to a village. Chinese doctors treat the wounded. An injured American smokes as he lies on a litter. Victims of the attack move to Shanghai in barges. United States gun boat Oahu and British gun boat Lady Bird at the Shanghai port. Injured transferred aboard the boats. A casket wrapped in American flag aboard the boat. Men on the deck of the boat.
A film titled 'The Enemy Japan Dream of Empire' details Japanese conquests over China during Second Sino-Japanese War. United States Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew speaks. Wall maps in the background. Aerial formation of Japanese bombers over a Chinese city, possibly Shanghai, during Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Smoke billows up from bomb bursts. Corpses on flaming streets. View of damaged Palace Hotel in Shanghai. Japanese infantry and horse-drawn munitions carts advance into the city. Japanese statesmen and army Generals confer in Japan.
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