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Sports in China including martial arts and sports such as basketball, archery, swimming, diving, and ice skating.

In traditional martial arts, Chinese men and women perform in streets with weapons and swords, in complex forms. Two men engage in martial arts combat with hands and feet. In western sports, girls play basketball. Girls in an archery program shoot arrows with bows. Men play a basketball game as a crowd of fans watch the basketball game. People at outdoor swimming pool. People dive in pool in a competitive diving event. People enjoy ice skating on outdoor ice rink, with singles and a pair of men skating.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040304
Iranian soldiers practice martial arts and military drills

Imperial Iranian Armed Forces soldiers train in martial arts outdoors. Two Iranian soldiers engage in martial arts match. Soldiers stand at attention. They lunge with their bayonets and shout during drill exercises. An Iranian general salute. Soldiers march and salute while a military band play music. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, speaks about the Iranian military in relation to current geopolitics. An English dubbing translates the Shah’s comments. The Shah speaks in French.

Date: 1973
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080195
U.S. orientation film for Allied occupation forces, to provide background for understanding Japanese and their society

Background information for United States occupation forces in Japan after end of World War II. At start, the film shows sky filled with U.S. Navy airplanes flying in formations. They include Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, among others, and are seen overhead above the Battleship USS Missouri (BBB-63). Closeup of the USS Missouri with her crew in formation on deck wearing dress whites. Next, General Douglas MacArthur is seen and heard speaking from a podium on the Missouri's deck. He invites the representatives of the Emperor of Japan, and the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial headquarters, to sign the instrument of surrender. The date is September 2, 1945, just after the end of World War 2. Closeups of the Japanese delegation, which includes envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, and of MacArthur. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu sits at a table. Closeups of him signing the surrender document. Change of scene to Japan, where camera pans over many thousands of Japanese people assembled to learn of their fate. Closeups of Japanese soldiers and family members, as Narrator asks how should the U.S. occupying force treat them. View of soldiers in plain non-military uniforms. Views of Japanese responding en masse to a leader, during World War 2. Views of child victims of the war. Closeup of Japanese soldier firing a short barrel light machine gun. Views of Japanese pedestrians including families, most in western dress. Japanese workers in an office. Film shows artists view of one worker's brain, and then many brains, as Narrator refers to need for reorienting Japanese thinking. View of learned wise Japanese leader at a podium. View of a Japanese soldier posed with his sword above the head of a war prisoner. Japanese mother feeding her baby. Closeups of Japanese babies. Closeups of Japanese school age children, in a group, and some doing things in school, and some at a playground. Group of uniformed Japanese students studying the art of Japanese calligraphy. Students doing artwork, studying nature outdoors, and paying attention to a teacher using a black board to explain how to calculate volumes of different shaped vessels. Students in classes of Geography and of geology. Japanese chemists, architects, and lawyers at work. Telephone switchboard operators at work. Electrified train moving on a track.

Date: 1946
Duration: 7 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036532
Martial art training in Hirosaki Boys' School

Martial arts class in Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' School in Aomori, Japan. Two male students bow to each other before a Judo match in Hirosaki Boys’ School (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). The two students engage in a Judo match. Other students sit on the side while watching the match. They bow to each other again after the end of Judo match.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025142
Sensei and others at a martial art training school watch men practicing jiu-jitsu wrestling bouts and Kendo, in Japan.

Men practice martial arts training at a training school in Japan. The sensei and other pupils sit near and watch closely. Two men practice jiu-jitsu wrestling bouts. Others practice Kendo, bamboo sword fighting. School building and trees can be seen at distance.

Date: 1900
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036780
The Japanese Imperial Navy fleet in review, attended by Emperor Hirohito

Emperor Hirohito visits the Yokosuka Naval Base. Soft background music of orchestra playing "Kimi ga Yo," the Japanese national anthem, is heard during this segment of the film showing Emperor Hirohito in formal attire, including top hat, as he walks following the Japanese rising sun flag, in the company of Japanese naval officers, past an honor guard of Japanese sailors. (Civilians stand against building in background.) At one point, the officers and the Emperor turn, bow, and salute, and the the Emperor removes his top hat . He then carries it as they proceed. The group walks down a gangplank to a dock. The harbor is filled with steamships and various vessels. Momentary glimpse of the Kongō class fast battleship Hiei anchored in the harbor. The Emperor and party board a motor launch flying the rising sun naval ensign. They stand as it pulls away into Tokyo harbor. Brief partial glimpse of the aircraft carrier Hōshō showing the three funnels on her starboard side. The motor launch seen headed toward the battleship. Closeup of Japanese naval ensign waving from a ship. Aerial view from an airship of Japanese warships in water below and then views from water level of various World War 2 era Japanese Navy warships. Formation of Kongō class Battle cruisers that were rebuilt as fast battleships. They are cruising with all hands on deck, as if in a naval review. The are followed by an aircraft carrier, in the background. One of the battleships firing her 14-inch guns. Three Hatsuharu-class destroyers in formation. A Fubuki-class destroyer passing at high speed. A Nagara-class light cruiser moving the opposite direction in the background. Warships firing their heavy guns. Others generating heavy black smoke screens as they cruise at full power. A Yokosuka K4Y float plane flying over the navy ships. Formation of Navy Yokosuka B4Y (or Aichi D1A) bi-wing dive bomber aircraft in flight. Camera pans over many naval vessels in the water. Segment ends with the Japanese naval ensign in the breeze, again. Following the segment with Emperor Hirohito, and the national anthem, the remainder of the film is accompanied by male chorus singing martial songs and brass band music.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675060890