News Parade, The - “War In China”

The News Parade - “War In China” Castle Films 01:38:25 Title: Shanghai - ...Mistress of the East. Aerial over city buildings, bund & harbor. Various countries naval ships anchored w/ flags. Navy battleship Augusta. 01:39:41 Title: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek - Commander of all China’s land forces. Tri-motor taxiing up, people around. Madam & General off plane, walking with civilians & military. General & Madam pose alone. 01:40:16 Title: Emperor Hirohito - Commander-in-chief of Japan’s armed forces. Emperor & aids riding reviewing troops, saluting. GOOD. Soldiers marching thru streets lined w/ crowds. 01:40:41 Title: China’s skies...dotted with swift messengers of destruction! Bombers flying in formation. bombs exploding in desert; Chinese artillery in bushes, on rooftops in sandbagged positions. Machine gun position in street, troops moving forward. 01:41:21 Title: Shanghai Bombed! Explosion in water; refugees along streets w/ goods, families. 01:41:38 Title: Soldiers & Sailors of all nations rescue hundreds of terror-stricken refugees! International troops by barbed wire checkpoints checking papers of Europeans. British soldiers in pith helmets off ship; out of trucks by barricades. US Marines march past; machine gun positions along street & harbor. Goodbyes & Americans to SS President Hoover on tenders. Waving from USS Augusta tender. 01:42:58: Bombs mounted in plane, pilot; planes in formation, bombs explode on land. Japanese artillery firing w/ flags, troops run forward. Planes drop bombs; artillery fire; riflemen. Explosions. Refugees. Burning city on river bank w/ heavy black smoke. 01:43:49 Refugees run along country road; car beside road w/ body; wounded on stretcher; soldier behind barricade firing rifles. Battle scenes, burning city, smoking buildings. 01:44:30 Title: An avenue of devastation & human wreckage! People running thru burning debris in streets. 01:44:45 Title: Hundreds are trapped in war inferno! Burning car & debris in street, people past. 01:45:02 Title: Helpless...Horror-stricken women & children - The real victims of the mad god of war! Well-dressed Chinese people pushing past. Street w/ standing building, windows blown out, people below in street. 01:45:33 Title: The Cathay Hotel, a mass of concrete & twisted steel... Awning w/ sign, wreckage below along street, pedestrians past, covered bodies in street. Pan across side of building. CU sign Palace Hotel. Shots of Cathay Hotel w/ destroyed ornate iron balconies; soldiers & civilians cleaning up, carrying injured & dead. Refugees holding noses passing dead horses on road. View of harbor. The End. Asian war; Sino-Japanese War; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2; Fighting; Far East; 1937; Battle of Shanghai, ca 13Aug37 - 26Nov37. Note: Any continuous minute sold at per reel rate.