SCENES AROUND MUKDEN, MANCHURIA Part 1

Description

Summary: MS, crowded train with people sitting atop stalled cars. Natives try to sell them pieces of roast chicken. MS, Lt General Andrey Kovtun Stankevitch, CG of Russian forces, and Major General Pen Pi Sheng, Commanding General of Chinese forces in Mukden, talking with Chinese Colonel Shih Tze Tsan. LS, public building flying the Soviet flag. LS, railway station showing portraits of Lenin and Stalin and a huge Soviet monument commerating Russian herves. MS, Russian soldiers walking streets armed with submachine guns. Police station barricaded with sandbags and barbed wire. Group of Chinese people in fg. Sequence: Crowd outside of theatre. Gen Stankevitch with Chinese officers leaving theatre. LS, Pan, Soviet HQ displaying huge portrait of Stalen. MS, Soviet soldier having his boots polished by Chinese boy. VS, boarded up, deserted buildings. (soft). VS, people buying fruits and vegetables at sidewalks stalls. HS, buildings in business section of Mukden. MS, two American correspondents walking through wreckage of factory. Dead bodies lying in the ruins.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities