Einreinhofer (Bill) China Archive, 1910-2024

428-npc-20553 Shanghai 1938.mp4

Scope and content:

"PEIPING, CHINA" (This is NOT Peiping. It is Shanghai, post-1937 and pre-1941, as described in Japanese propaganda film asserting everyone is better off with the Japanese military running the city) 1) LS PAN wrecked and war-torn city.2) MS Collapsed buildings; many buildings with shell holes. G3) MLS Wrecked pill box.4) MLS Grave of Japanese army hero, killed in battle.5) LS Japanese Marine HQ. building.6) MLS Japanese Marines at entrance of building; start march into town for sentry duty.7) MS Marines marching down street with rifles on shoulders.8) HA LS City of Soochow; many big bridges; Western-style buildings at river side.9) GV Chinese civilians passing over bridge, showing passes to sentry.10) MS British guard (short scene).11) MLS Large buildings in Shanghai.12) MS Western women standing on street.13) MLS French sentries, light tank nearby.14) MLS Street scene in Nanking.15) MLS Chinese advertising slogans in market place.16) MLS Street car on main street.17) LS Junks on water front of Soochow.18) LS Shanghai, with British liner and many jinks in BG.19) GV British light warship (corvette-type).20) MLS German ship.21) MLS Japanese CL or DD.22) MS Japanese Imperial crest on the prow of the same. (edited, sound)

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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:
East Asian Library
Doheny Memorial Library, 1st floor
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1825, US
Contact:
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