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Chinese workers roll a hogshead up an incline at Universal Leaf Tobacco Company in Shanghai, China.

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'.

Date: 1938, December
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050897
Political unrest in Shanghai, China, on eve of the Chinese Civil War in 1927

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.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051150
Men injured due to a Japanese attack on United States ship Pannay being treated by doctors in China.

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.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042124
Japanese bombers bomb a Chinese cities, including Shanghai, and infantry advance during Second Sino-Japanese War (WW2)

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.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074738
Various scenes depicting animated maps of China, seaplane landing in San Francisco, and streets in Beijing

Flag of the Republic of China (ROC) flying. Map shows travel routes between West Coast USA and Shanghai or British colony of Hong Kong. A seaplane or flying boat takes off. Seaplane flying over Golden Gate Bridge. Chinese American women wave at plane. Aerial view of a palace, pagoda, and surrounding grounds in China. Animated map comparing the sizes of United States and China. Yankee clippers underway at sea. Map shows position of Canton (Guangzhou). View of Canton harbor from a ferry. View of ferry's rail. Map of Beijing, also known as Peking or Peiping. Streets and buildings in Beijing.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040297
Evacuation of Shanghai as Red Chinese advance. USS General W.H. Gordon. Palmiro Togliatti Italian Communist, East Germany

Refugees and foreigners fleeing unrest throng Shanghai as the Communist Chinese Army advances, challenging those loyal to Nationalist China. An Orthodox priest looks at an infant carried by a European woman. Many people are screened before boarding the USS General W.H. Gordon (AP-117) to evacuate. Two Roman Catholic nuns board the ship. The ship departs from Shanghai. Communists parade in Rome, Italy and assemble at event overseen by Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti. Crowds of communist Italians gathered at the Stadio dei Marmi (Viale dello Stadio dei Marmi, 00135 Roma RM, Italy). In East Germany a large poster showing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Speakers at rally of East German FDGB (Freier Deutscher Gewerkshaftsbund) which is the Free German Trade Union Federation. Rioting and destruction in East Berlin.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037967