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1937 - China, Glimpses of Modern China Reel 2

Reel Number: 220708-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1937

Country: China

Location: Peking? Peiping?

TC Begins: 05:14:51

TC Ends: 05:27:22

Duration: 00:12:31

R2 of 2 Education - Children out of school building and doing organized game in playground. Older children do calisthenics. 05:16:31 College / University ?. Students, mostly girls, and tutors leaving building. 05:17:15 Title re social responsibility - men walking into hills with spades to plant new trees. 05:17:45 Traditional sports - people perform in streets - weapons - martial arts. 05:18:38 Western sports - Girls playing volleyball. Girls with bows - archery. Men watching basketball game. People at outdoor swimming pool. Diving. People on outdoor ice rink - skating. 05:21:22 Fashion - Interior department store - shoppers using escalator. Young woman buying jumper and young girl with baby doll. Young women sampling makeup. 05:22:21 Work place - Interior textile factory, women at machines. Food processing ? production line. Women work at desks in office. Young women leave building carrying flags. 05:23:10 Title re Chinese leaders encourage exchange of culture between East and West. Ambassador to the US - C.T. Wang and Madame Wang. Ambassador was Yale educated. 05:23:51 Title - Hu Shih, foremost philosopher and instigator of China’s renaissance is a Cornell and Columbia graduate. Shots Hu Shih greeting women. 05:24:11 Jimmie Yen, educated at Princeton and Yale heads the mass education movement. Shots Yen and family. 05:24:30 Chang Po-Ling, President of Nankai University. Po-Ling with little boy outside house . 05:25:00 General Ho Ying Chin, Minister of War. Li Sen, Chairman of the National Government. 05:25:27 Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang. 05:25:24 VIPs including military officers down stairs. Mass assembly of troops. Chinese Boys Brigade? Boy Scout? Boys in uniform march with flags. Travelogue; Asia; China; Chinese; 1937; 1930s;

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