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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220827-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1937
Country: China
Location: Peiping,Shanghai
TC Begins: 16:42:19
TC Ends: 16:51:59
Duration: 00:09:40
Main Title: Universal Pictures - Universal Newsreel 16:42:36 First Pictures - Bombing of Shanghai 16:42:47 Title: You Are Going To Be Shocked, But This Is War Uncensored. - Japanese atrocities United Airlines DC-3 plane lands, taxiis & boxes (film?) unloaded. 16:43:17 Title: Peiping. Pan over empty stone street & bridge; soldiers march past, planes overhead & bomb explosions. Chinese or Japanese troops run past in street; large pagoda like building & square. 16:43:49 Rubble & destruction, people cleaning up. Chinese (?) soldiers pulled in rickshaws past sandbags & checkpoint. Chinese (?) troops truck convoy thru countryside. Ambulance. Many corpses in rain & mud. Truck filled w/ corpses, bodies beneath & along roadside. 16:44:58 Title: Shanghai. Ships at sea patrolling past one another, flying Japanese flag. 16:45:22 LS Shanghai Bund. Japanese biplane overhead; civilians run into park. Crowds in street; run panicked in park; planes over & watched by people, drifting ack-ack smoke, windy day, planes. People running in street. 16:46:12 Street w/ burning cars, people carrying wounded. Well dressed woman walking & running thru rubble. Dead & badly injured lying on street, windows blown out, ext. of Cathy Hotel. Various military around wounded, carried away on motorcycle w/ sidecar. Others carry stretcher & Red Cross flag; boy in rickshaw. Injured in front of Palace Hotel; pan around street. 16:47:24 Two men arrested & walked off by police & soldiers. British police push crowd to one side w/ baton. European women & children boarding ships; kiss goodbye to husbands; Naval officers. Baby buggy or pram loaded on boat; Dollar Lines boat putting out w/ American flag flying. 16:48: 27 Steam ship or naval captain w/ binoculars. View of refugees & children on deck; helped aboard. British (?) servicemen helping. 16:48:49 Black smoke & flames across harbor. US navy ships. Fire burning brightly. 16:49:08 Sign on dock: Pontoon No. 5. Smoke & fire in distance. Navy ships, one burning. 16:49:52 Corpse floating past in river. 16:50:01 High angle of street, fire hoses strung, people milling about. People picking through debris in front of blasted building. Upper story w/ caved in roof. Chaos in street. Destroyed front & view of interior of bombed out building. Workers clearing rubble, retrieving corpses & wounded from debris. Truck loaded w/ corpses carried on planks. Truck away thru street. The End. Sino-Japanese War; Pre-WWII; Horrors of War; 1937; Invasion of China; 1930s; Conflict; International City; Beijing; Pre-WW2;