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China Incident R3 of 3

Reel Number: 221164-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1937-1938

Country: China,Japan

Location: Shanghai

TC Begins: 05:31:05

TC Ends: 05:41:18

Duration: 00:10:13

China Incident R3 of 3 Propaganda defending Japanese military effort in China. (Sino-Japanese War) Japanese sailors transfer from battle ship to Junk. Animated map showing route round coastline, w/ titles. 05:31:41 Various shots Japanese naval fleet at sea. On board battleship (?), pilot salutes before getting into plane. Big guns fire from battleship, torpedo boat & bow. 05:32:50 Animated map shwoing movements. Air views bombing as Japan bombs Chinese cities. Moving thru bomb damaged buildings. Street fighting, snipers at windows. Troops fire artillery. 05:33:48 Firing anti-aircraft guns (Ack Ack AA) at planes overhead . 05:34:07 Troops move camouflaged rubber pontoons into place, crossing river by means of pontoon bridge held up by soldiers. Waving Japanese flag. Biplane over. Bombing. Enormous naval bombardment. Bombing, street fighting, bombardment and capture of Shanghai. 05:36:06 Map shows Japanese advances. Jubilant crowds waving Japanese flags, narration explains that Japan “accomplished her purpose of establishing peace”; shows Japanese giving candy to children, “ happy “ 05:39:14 Chinese locals & peaceful rural agricultural scenes. Narrator indicates that Japan must be willing to fight to the very end for this “harmony“ between nations. 05:40:12 Japanese flag on various buildings; on Great Wall of China. Japanese flag flying next to Nazi Swastika. Soldiers on Great Wall. Pre-WWII Invasion - China; Japanese Expansionism; Colonialism;

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