China

Duration: 16 min

Genre: Geography

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Silent

Description: HONG KONG, beggars in boats, women stevedores carry babies on their backs as they work. Up over Victoria Point to Repulse Bay. At CANTON (X4046), the steamer takes precautions against pirates. Crowded canal life, handicraft detail—ivory carving, silk weaving, embroidery, jade grinding. Pekin (X4036). Summer Palace. Elaborate Chinese Funerals (X4037), showing the ornately bizarre panoply of death. By rail to the Great Wall. SHANGHAI, modern city with a fine water approach.

Metadata Source:Bell & Howell Filmosound Library Catalog of Educational Motion Pictures, 1942