Shanghai

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
434
Date Released
27 Sep 1937
Date submitted
24 Sep 1937
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 12
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: War Footsteps of Pitiful Chinese Imploring Shelter. DESCRIPTION: War dogs footsteps as pitiful Chinese imploring shelter. SHOTLIST: Refugees including close shots of women and children enter the French Settlement in Shanghai past French soldiers. Close shot of woman and child. Shot of the British area sandbagged. Canadian Pacific on doorway of building. Troops in lorries patrol the streets. Shots of sunken river boats and a Chinese Gun boat. Shots of ruined dock buildings. Notice South Shanghai. Fires raging. Corpses in streets. Bombed station. Corpse and shambles.
Keywords
Ships and boats; Fires; Foreign aid; War damage; Exile; Military
Footage sources
New York
Card file number
5711
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
95
Story extras:
Film clip

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