Shanghai
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
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:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 95
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How to cite this record
'Shanghai', British Movietone News Issue No. 434, 27 Sep 1937. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/8033 (Accessed 03 Mar 2025)