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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| keywords: war, combat, world war two, wwII, allies, china, axis, japan, shanghai, why we fight, frank capra |
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Synopsis: From the prestigious "Why We Fight" series, this volume details Japan's attempt to conquer China well before World War Two. |
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Information: 1944 BW (7 reels = 64 min) |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 1 (9:23 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Japanese planes bomb Shanghai in September 1937. Plane Interior images. Bombardier turning knob of bombsight, bombs released from aircraft, ground explosions. Civilians running and screaming. Shows bodies of dead Chinese men, women, and children. China can be described by three words; history, land and people. Chinese history goes back more than 4000 years. Map shows the China landmass; China proper and the provinces of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Sinkiang, and the great Yangtze River. |
Shows the mass of Chinese people. Shows and describes the inventions of the Chinese people, art of printing with moveable type, the mariner’s compass, art of making porcelain, gun power, and gave the world Analects of Confucius. China has been forced to fight because of The Tanaka Memorial, Japan’s dream of World Empire formulated in 1927 by Baron Tanaka.
A Tanaka quote “In order to conquer the world we must first conquer china”. Animated map shows Japanese plan to conquer the world. China was a fragmented country, but not a nation, while Japan was a highly regimented military dictatorship. |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 2 (8:51 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Images of Dr. Sun Yat Sen the Chinese revolutionary that is considered the Father of The Nation. Sun's chief legacy resides in his developing a political philosophy known as the Three Principlals of the People; nationalism, democracy, and people’s liveihood. China built schools and estabilished scholarships so students could attend universities in Europe and America and return to China with new ideas. This generation returned to China with new techniques of industry, science, medicine. They built hospitals, they introduced compusary education, and layed down the freedom of expression and freedom of religion. |
| Sun Yat Sen died in 1925, but his desciple Chiang kai-shek, continued the unification and modernization of China. Shows modern steam engine, building network of highways, mining of coal, iron, tin, new factories producing goods for the people. In Japan the God Emperior and his Warlords were building a powerful war machine with the purpose of conquering China fulfilling the Tanaka Memorial. Newspaper headlines “Record arms Fund Approved In Tokyo”. Shows Japanese ships being loaded with coal, scrap Iron, and oil. Shows Japan’s modern Army, Navy, and air Force. Map showing Islands in the Pacific showing the Marians, Caroline, and Marshall Islands Japan fortified in a violation of international treaties. In 1931 the Japanese invades and occupies Manchuria starting the flames of war that spread around the world. The Japanese occupied Jehol. Scenes of the Great Wall of China. Japan invades China in 1937. Animated map shows within a few weeks the Japanese were in control of Tientsin and Peipine. Cheering Japanese soldiers. The Chinese Army struck back at the Japanese at Shanghai. |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 3 (8:02 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Animated maps show the location of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Shows the harbor and seaport, street scenes, aerial view, and the Foreign Settlement in Shanghai in 1937. Animated map shows the Foreign Settlement City was made up of the French Concession, and International Settlement. Troops from Great Britain, The United States, France, and Japan were stationed in the International Settlement. The Chinese Army attacked the Japanese garrison in the International Settlement. |
| The Japanese made landings north and south of Shanghai and sent ships to bombard the city with large naval guns. Animated map shows the Chinese Army withdrew toward Nanking. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince Narukhiko Higashikuni began the aerial bombing of Shanghai and slaughtering thousands of civilians. Shows people fleeing the explosions and trying to crowd into the British, French, and American sectors of the International Settlement. Shows the death and destruction aftermath of the bombing attack. Animated map shows the Japanese army as it pushed toward Nanking. Shows the bombing attack and sinking of the United States gunboat USS Panay while anchored on the Yangtze River outside of Nanking. Shows Japanese attacking the City of Nanking. |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 4 (9:25 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
After the fall of Shanghai in 1937 the Japanese Army attacked Nanking, Capital of China. Shows Japanese soldiers shelling the city and fighting in the streets. Shows the brutality of the Japanese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre where 40,000 mem, women, and children were murdered. These horrific scenes photographed by an American Missionary and smuggled out of China after Nanking fell. Scenes of the Chinese people uniting to fight the Japanese invaders. |
| Their plan was to move the entire Chinese industrial complex to the far reaches of China trading space for time to produce the weapons of war. What could be dismantled was moved, what could not was burned or destroyed. The the people stated moving, the largest human migration in recorded history. 30 million people moving westward by foot, by ox cart, by train, by boat carring the industrial goods for a Free China. |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 5 (8:55 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
The far western city of Chungking became the Capital city of the Republic of China, estabilished their governoment, and built enormous caves and shelters to protect the people and house underground factories. Unable for their Army to reach Chungking by land they send the Imperial Japanese Army Service to destroy the city by bombing. Japanese planes taking off, in flight, and bombing Chungking. Air raid siren sounds alarm and people flee to underground shelters. Shows underground factories continuing to operate day and night. |
| Shows fires and destruction of Chungking. Call to arms throughout the Republic of Free China and training of the Chinese Army. Scenes of General Chennault and the 1st American Volunteer Group or Flying Tigers in action against the Japanese. Shows shark faced fighter planes. The Japanese started cutting the supply lines to the Chinese were cut off by Japanese war ships patrolling and blockaids of the harbors and ports. Animated map shows the possible supply routes to Chungking and why a decision was made to build the Burma Road that would connect the railroad terminal at Lashio Burma with a truck road at Kunming. |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 6 (9:17 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Shows the mountaineous trail that would become the route of the Burma Road that would connect the railroad from the seaport of Rangoon to Lashio to the truck road from Kunming to Chungking. Thousands of Chinese men, women, and children began building this supply road, the Burma Road, by hand. Shows trucks delivering supplies and goods along the Burma Road to Chungking protected by the planes of the Flying Tigers. Animated maps shows the course of the Yellow River as it flowed past Chengchow, and as the Japanese advanced on Chengchow the Chinese blew the river dikes forming a barrier blocking the Japanese advance. Chinese gurrilla bands continued to harras the Japanese. |
| Animated map shows pockets of guarrillas throughout the occupied areas of China. Chinese guarrillas ambush enemy patrolls. Japan became bogged down in their effort to conquer China and complete phase two of the Tanaka Memorial Plan, conquest of China. While German held Russia at bay and England was fighting for it’s survival Japan decided to initiate phase 3 and 4 of the Tanaka Plan, bases in South Pacific and conquer the United States. To paralyze America’s power in the Pacific Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Animated map shows Chine’s lost of Burma Road. |
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BATTLE OF CHINA
REEL 7 (8:13 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Shows troops marching along the Great Wall of China. Animated map show how the Chinese set a trap for the Japanese in the battle for the city of Changsha and cut the retreating Japanese colums to bits. Battle of Changsha was a tremendous victory for the Chinese Army. As 1944 dawns American’s Navy, Air Force, and Armies are on the offensive. Naval bombardment from Battleship, Marines fighting in the jungles of New Guinea, Gilbert and Marshall Islands, and on the ocean Japan faces american’s military might. |
| President Roosevelt with Chiang kai-shek and Churchill. General Stillwell. Chinese troops are flown to India for training in use of modern weapons, building the Ledo Road, supply lifeline from India to China. Supplies dropped by parachute. From air fields in India planes take off loaded with military supplies and equipment, flying the Hump to deliver supplies to the Chinese Army. Chinese soldiers fight the Japanese alongside American and British soldiers. Madame Chiang Kai-shek addressing United States Congress. |
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