Summary

CHINA WAR

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: CHINA WAR
File Number: AFP-133J 35mm Nitrate Negative, WRS# 374-2; VTM-133J 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1937
Description: B W 1937 (SILENT) China and Japan at War. 1937 newsreel. VS Japanese and Chinese military, artillery, naval, and air attacks. Ravages of war on Chinese cities and civilians. The Shanghai bombing raid. Civilian and military war casualties. About 9 minutes in is footage of Japanese prisoners exercising in Chinese prison yard, and (in a rare shot) we see 3 Chinese prisoners sharing the same match as they smoke cigarettes ("3 on a match"). 00:22:41:00 B W 1937 ws ms Chinese civilians fleeing Japanese air bombing attacks. 00:23:22:00 B W 1937 ws ms Chinese civilians fleeing Japanese air bombing attacks. 00:25:06:00 B W 1937 ws ms Chinese civilians fleeing Japanese air bombing attacks. 00:26:06:00 B W 1937 ws Streets wrecked and cluttered with dead from aerial bombing. ms Weeping woman and their dead. 00:27:36:00 B W 1937 ms Weeping woman and their dead. END.
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