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President Richard Nixon speaks during farewell banquet in China; general views of Chinese citizens.
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.
U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, arriving at Shanghai China, right after World War II
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.
People gather in large number to watch the Chinese scouts at a parade in Shanghai, China.
A parade in Shanghai, China. Chinese scouts parade in Shanghai, China. Mayor Wu Teh-Chen, distinguished executive of a Chinese city reviews the parade. People gather in a large number top watch the parade.
City of Shanghai in China, including high aerial views of The Bund from a tall building, and street level views.
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.
Street scenes in Shanghai, China, 1928.
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.
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.
