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1940s - Color, China: Kukan aka Battle Cry of China Card 2 of 3

Reel Number: 221691-01-P2

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1939,1940,1941,1940s

Country: China

Location: Kweiyang

TC Begins: 16:13:50

TC Ends: 16:26:19

Duration: 00:12:29

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Card 2 of 3 Continued... Map w/ animated trucks along Burma Road. Trucks past & LS up twisting road; workers alongside constructing road. CU smashing stones by hand. Repairing road; trucks passing in CU. Stopped under trees for camouflage. 16:15:02 String of open boats w/ supplies on river pulled upstream by men. 16:15:21 Ambulances parked near Kweiyang hospital. MCU of ambulances from Chicago; China unloaded. Dr. Robert Lim accepting cigarette from American (Rey Scott?). Chinese posing next to ambulance & supply trucks. 16:16:03 Truck passing mile marker 294. Miao tribal Chinese women carrying potter jugs alongside road w/ grain field behind; men, women & children in market place in tribal dress, posing for camera & walking thru streets. Truck past people in streets; vendors selling eggs, fish. Mothers & babies; men & women smoking elaborate pipes. Woman spinning along wall. 16:18:59 Burma Road thru valley, along mountainside w/ mountains beyond; trucks up twisting road seen from above. Convoy down road, around tight corners; across wooden bridge. 16:20:30 Pony pack train up road; men carrying lumber on poles. Truck down to ferry; loading ambulance. CU men poling ferry across river. 16:21:33 LS of Chungking lining Yangtze River. MS Chinese or river bank watching American photographer, Rey Scott, on horseback led up stone steps. 16:22:16 Rickshaws past destroyed buildings; pedestrians past sidewalk stalls & vendors. People carry goods. 16:22:44 Propaganda wall poster of Japanese attacking Chinese. 16:22:58 New office building, cars; men walk past w/ litter on poles. Bank buildings; large intersection; post office truck. 16:23:31 US gunboat (sister ship to Panay) in river; US Embassy on top of south bank hillside w/ flag pole. CU matting around building to serve as air conditioning. 16:23:45 Embassy personnel sit posed seated in sun for camera; Nelson Johnson, former Ambassador to China, gives Scott cigarette light. 16:23:53 USS Tutuila (PR-4) below on Yangtze. 16:24:03 CU Marine in US Navy truck w/ American flag on side bringing supplies to Tutuila 16:24:25 Hillside w/ air raid shelter under construction by Chinese workers carrying baskets of dirt & breaking rocks. 16:25:05 Smiling Chinese youngsters pose. 16:25:15 Steel making w/ molten ore into buckets & carried by workers; pouring & working w/ hammers making shovel. Skimming impurities off molten liquid w/ wood. Annealing. 16:26:19 continued... Sino-Japanese War; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2; Resistance; Hmong Tribe (related); Village Daily LIfe; 1940s; 1930s; Resistance; Color Documentary Film; Travelogue; NOTE: Dr. Robert K. S. Lim (1869 - 1969) established Medical Relief Corps at Kweiyang & various hospitals retreating w/ Stilwell thru Burma. Nelson Trusler Johnson (03Apr87 - 03Dec54) Ambassador to China (1929 - May41) & Australia (1941-45). NOTE: Any continuous twelve minutes of 3 cards (16:00:12 - 16:35:19) provided for per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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