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Kenkan Kyoso Jidai aka Kensen Kyoso Jidai R2 of 2

Reel Number: 250033-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1939,1940

Country: Austria,France,Japan

Location: Vienna

TC Begins: 16:11:10

TC Ends: 16:21:10

Duration: 00:10:00

R2 of 2. Airplane in hanger w/ tail damaged. Soldiers into city thru damaged wall; pan across rooftops & smoke rising over large city. 16:11:48 Intertitle. Shots of Japanese flag on staff over buildings; troops on rooftop cheering banzai. 16:12:08 Intertitle. 16:12:14 Pan barricades in street & smoke rising behind buildings. View of burning city from riverboat w/ soldiers. Sailors raise flag on boat & officers saluting Japanese Naval Ensign flag. 16:12;52 Intertitle; characters on wall, ribbons. Pan over city & destroyed steel beams; soldiers patrolling city. Military in small river boats; on beach, running w/ small machine guns & flags; marching along road etc. Many flags. Japanese marines on small boat; planes above rooftops. Soldiers stand on sandbagged bunker along river w/ Jap flag on tree. 16:14:13 Intertitles. European draftsmen in vests working over blueprints, measuring model w/ calipers. 16:14:29 CUs steel mill, armament factory & huge gun barrels. US Congressional Committee & sync re US views on navies (w/ Japanese subtitle along edge). Fleet of battleships underway. Australian or British aircraft carrier w/ biplanes rolled on deck, taking off. CU flag. 16:16:15 Navy yard & launching large ship Strasbourg (12Dec36) GOOD. 16:17:18 View of French ships, formation of tri-motor airplanes from water; maneuvers & firing barrage. GOOD. 16:18:32 Intertitles. German mounted police; crowd control; Fascist parade. Intertitle & European map w/ countries named in Jap characters. Hitler standing in open car thru Austria to Vienna; & ?? LS & MCU GOOD 16:20:06 Intertitles. Battleship guns & ships. 1930s Pre-WW2; Pre-WWII Militarism; NOTE: Reel shows that further tension leads to battles in Shanghai. Nanking & Tsingtao. Japan sees other nations strengthening their navies. Various views of U.S., British, French, and Italian ships. Compares German expansion in Europe, including view of Hitler, w/ Japanese need for economic security. Shows convoy of Japanese destroyers and explains their role in building a "lasting peace in the Pacific and the world."

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