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1937 CHINA: FAR EAST AFLAME! Shanghai bombarded by Japanese battleships! Full-scale war with China
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2:18Now PlayingDate: 16th August 1937
Location: SHANGHAI, CHINA
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
CAPTION - SHANGHAI BOMBARED BY JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS- FULL SCALE WAR
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( ** NB This story is made up of British Paramount library file ** )
Shanghai, China
Gen. view Shanghai Waterfront... IN ROLL 884
Top view refugees landing from river... IN ROLL 895
Semi top view ditto (Wangpoo River)... IN ROLL 895
Gen. view streets crowded with refugees... IN ROLL 913
Semi top view refugees entering Internation Settlement... IN ROLL 913
CU ditto... IN ROLL 913
Tilt down on wall to gate... IN ROLL 6611
CU, long view & side view wrecked truck... IN ROLL 6611
CU helmet & equipment.. wreckage in background... IN ROLL 6611
Map Scene of China & Japan... IN ROLL 6611
Air view Great Wall of China... IN ROLL 6438
Angle wall showing fortress... IN ROLL 4989
Semi view fortress... IN ROLL 6561
Soldiers coming thru' wall... IN ROLL 4989
CU Gen.Chiang Kai-Shek (Premier of China)... IN ROLL 6561
Gen. back view Chinese troops marching... IN ROLL 6561
Long view Japanese Fleet... IN ROLL 2176
Gen view boats firing... IN ROLL 2176
Gen. view Planes over Shanghai... IN ROLL 913
Air view Shanghai...IN ROLL 907
Long view plane bombing shanghai... IN ROLL 913
Top view building alight... IN ROLL 895
CU wounded man... IN ROLL 895
Long view carrying wounded on stretchers... IN ROLL 999
Long view stretchers on to lorry... IN ROLL 999
Gen. view artillery firing... IN ROLL 884
Long view building ablaze... IN ROLL 884
Effect Shot..Jap.soldier looking thru' field glasses at Rising Sun... IN ROLL 6611
Sino-Japanese War; Navy - Active; Air Raids and War Damage; Japan
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