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1937 - News Parade, The - Norman Alley’s “Bombing Of U.S.S. Panay”. 12Dec37

Reel Number: 221646-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1937

Country: China

Location: Nanking,Yangtze River

TC Begins: 01:10:11

TC Ends: 01:19:24

Duration: 00:09:13

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Bombing Of U.S.S. Panay”. 12Dec37 01:10:57 Chinese carrying goods, w/ wagons & carts along wall of Nanking. LS burning village; people among smoking rubble; bodies. Refugees fleeing across bridges. 01:11:43 USS Panay in Yangtze River harbor from shore; from ship, officers looking to shore. Smoke rising, pan along. Commander James J. Hughes to shore to rescue Americans, Italians, British. CU Embassy plaque. Tender returning to Panay & people boarding. Ship past camera; sailors signaling British gunboat Lady Bird; raise signal flags & anchor. View of burning shore, other ships in river. Anchor dropped. Hughes w/ binoculars. 01:14:14 Title: “Bombing of the U.S.S. Panay!” 12Dec37. 01:14:20 Japanese plane diving seen beyond American flag; ship crewman at small anti-aircraft gun. Biplane diving. Crewmen run forward, men at guns. Ship with water over decks, men in life vests & into boats. Damage on deck; ship seen from boat leaving & people onto shore. Ship lower in water; sinking. People onto shore into reeds. Ship turns over as people watch it go under. MS & CU wounded looking up; wounded carried to village on stretchers. Laying on ground, treated by Chinese doctors. 01:17:38 Carried aboard small Chinese river boats & poled & floated down river. 01:17:53 Teletype room w/ men w/ earphones typing. MS FDR; Cordell Hull leaving State Department (?). 01:18:07 Japanese Ambassador Saito reading newspaper. 01:18:11 MS to camera (SOF): “I have today called upon the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to accept the Japanese regret; the Japanese government & people wish to express their profoundest regret to the American government & people on account of this horrible incident.” 01:18:33 Three river ships of American & Britain in midstream; Panay survivors reach USS Augusta. Flag draped coffin. The End. Sino-Chinese War; Attack; 1937; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2; Note: Any continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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