Description
China 1947
March of Time Forum Edition
Reel 1 summary:
Shows pagodas and the Great Wall; worshipers at a Buddhist shrine; peasants plowing with oxen; a pack-animal train; a village council of elders; rivers and canals; a camel caravan; Christian missionaries and converts; Sun Yak-sen speaking; Chiang Kai-shek with Kuomintang members Kung and Soong; Chiang speaking and reviewing troops; truck and train transport of Army units; coolies repairing rails; and the Japanese bombing of Shanghai.
Details:
Image of a pagoda; Scenes of the Great Wall of China; People walking on top of the Wall of China; Image of Chinese statue of guardian lion; Image of Buddha carved into mountain; worshipers at a Buddhist shrine; Image of large temple bell in Buddhist Temple; Buddhism or Buddhist religion.
Shows a Chinese peasant plowing with oxen; shows a large grinding stone removing the husk or hulls from the grains of rice; shows a pack-mule (pack-animal) train.
Early China was a nation of independent villages. Shows an ancient Chinese village and a village council of elders that govern the community. Shows rivers and canals that linked the far flung villages of China; Scenes of Chinese river boats; shows a camel caravan.
Christian religion in early China. New education and ways of the west was introduced to China by Christian missionaries. An early disciple of this new education was Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese Republic. Shows Sun Yak-sen speaking (no audio) as he spread the fundamental principles of his party, nationalism, democracy, and livelihood.
Shows Chiang Kai-shek with Kuomintang Central Executive Committee members H. H. Kung and T.V. Soong; Chiang speaking and reviewing troops. Scenes of Chinese Army troops marching in review. CU of Chinese soldier wearing a helmet with the emblem of the Kuomintang on side.
Runtime: 00:09:19
Sound: yes
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
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