Einreinhofer (Bill) China Archive, 1910-2024

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Scope and content:: "Road to Democracy" On occupied Japan. Reel 1 shows Japanese troops marching, the attack on Pearl Harbor, reconstruction amid the ruins of Hiroshima, Gen. MacArthur, and panoramic views of the Japanese war crimes trials. Japanese war equipment is scrapped and melted down. Emperor Hirohito speaks to children and mingles with a crowd; candidates make speeches and vote. Shows the newly elected National Assembly and the prewar Imperial Diet. Describes a jury trial and the disestablishment of the Shinto religion. Reel 2, U.S. soldiers spray Japanese civilians with DDT. Japanese queue to buy rationed food. Shows panoramic views of war ruins and activity in various industries (lumbering, whaling, petroleum, textile, silk, and pearl culture). Japanese attend a theater, kneel before Buddha, and play baseball. (Edited, sound) (1948)
Other descriptive data:: This record describes a digital file preserved in the USC Libraries' digital asset management systems.

Parent restrictions:: The majority of the digital files in this collection are publicly accessible via the USC Digital Library. Each folder- and file-level record in this finding aid includes a link to the corresponding USC Digital Library asset. However, the files relating to the China Now (1997) documentary series, along with some of the interviews taken during the production of Valor and Memory (2024), are available for individual research purposes only and cannot be published via the USC Digital Library. Please contact the East Asian Library at eal@usc.edu for more information regarding access to the China Now files and the Valor and Memory restricted interviews. Access to the external hard drives, on which the files were delivered to USC, is also restricted.
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Location of this collection:: University of Southern California, East Asian Library

East Asian Library

Doheny Memorial Library, 1st floor

Los Angeles, CA 90089-1825, US