Industries in Shanghai, China. A building with 'Shanghai Power Company' written on it. A U.S. flag flutters atop the building. Smoke comes out of stacks. Power company tugs in the water body in front of the building. Machinery in operation in the company. Chinese workers fill coal in baskets. The entrance of the company. U.S. Marine sentries at the entrance. The Chinese workers carry coal out through the gate. A sign at the entrance proclaims it to be a restricted area.
University of Shanghai in Shanghai, China. Chinese students in a temporary classroom. They take down notes.
A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. President Nixon visits the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre (6FG2+7JV, Nanjing Rd (W), Jing'An, Shanghai, China, 200041). President Nixon and other Chinese officials raise a toast at the farewell banquet. President in his speech talks about a world of peace, independence, and justice. Clip closes with general views of Chinese citizens walking and talking, including many on bicycles. Chinese people walking in area of Tiananmen Square. Chinese civilians on street. Chinese grade school students in a classroom with one girl standing and reciting. An aircraft in flight shortly after takeoff.
The city of Shanghai, China. Buildings in the city. Point of view shots from a moving vehicle passing through busy streets of Shanghai China heading first north along the Bund; over Garden Bridge; then returning heading south to Nanking Road and then heading along Nanking Road. Vehicles parked on the sides of a street. Buildings along the streets. A streetcar moving. People walking on sidewalks. Vehicles including trucks, bicycles, horse carts, moving on the roads. Vehicles crossing a bridge. Traffic including horse drawn carriages and vehicles on a road. Huge buildings on either side of the road. Various views of the buildings and people on the road. Men riding bicycles, buses, and other motor vehicles on the road. Close up view of a streetcar or trolley on the road. Several banners with Chinese letters displayed on the buildings. Chinese men pulling rickshaws on the busy street.
Map of China shows Beijing (Peiping), Nanjing (Nanking), Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton). Top shot shows busy port area of The Bund. Sign reads "The Bund." View from balcony of a high building looking out over the streets, buildings, and Huangpu River of the Bund area. Sign Nanking Road. Sign Sassoon House (20 East Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China) and Cathay Hotel. Chinese people get on bus. Double Decker bus and trams.
U.S. Army chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, steps from his C-54 transport airplane and is met by Lieutenant General Albert C. Wedemeyer, as he arrives in Shanghai, china, right after World War 2. (He has been dispatched to China by President Truman, in attempt to facilitate peace between the the Chinese Nationalists and the Communists.) Marshall, Wedemeyer, and an American diplomat, salute as an honor guard (not seen) presents the colors. Scene shifts to a small motorcade through Shanghai. Chinese police and U.S. Military Police, have set up lines to control large crowd of American service personnel in uniform who gather to greet General Marshall as he enters the Cathay Hotel.
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