NANKING Part 1

Description

1) CU PAN Front page of a Japanese newspaper. G2) LA CU Japanese banner. G3) CU Cloth deceration of some type. G4) LS Looking out over the heads of hundreds of Japanese people on their knees, bowing; shrine in the bg. G5) MS Family sitting on the floor in their home, two women and a young man; young man reading from a Japanese newspaper; two women smiling as the information is read from the paper; man is apparently reading off good war news to the two women who are seated on the floor.6) CU Japanese newspaper, showing a map. G7) MS Pedestrians moving along on the street; man drops a rolled piece of paper, one of the pedestrians picks it up. G8) CU Man handing back the roll of paper to the other civilian(SV).G9) CU Oil paintings in a shop, strewn about the shop, some on the walls, some resting against tables, others mounted, some are unmounted; PAN up and to the left in a small shop showing the paintings.10) CU Two Japanese gentlemen entering the shop; one leaves the scene at left. G11) MS Japanese gentleman entering the shop, looking at the oil paintings, puts his top coat over a chair; second man again enters, bends down in the center of the room over a Hibachi (small stove); other man sits in chair, looks at the paintings, gets up from the chair, squats down on the floor.12) CU The two men squatting on the floor before the Hibachi; man to the right looks through a magazine. G13) CU Pages of the magazine being turned, various paintings described.14) ECU Natty Japanese gentlemen seated on the floor. G15) CU Man, rather shabbily dressed, seated on the floor alse.16) MCU The two men seated on the floor in the center of the room, places the magazine down, leans forward a little, talks to the man with glasses; man with the glasses seems rather ashamed of something, keeps his head down. G17) CU PAN Desk, various paintings, books on a shelf, oils, models of ships on the bookcase. G18) MS Two men seated on the floor, one man smoking; paintings are on the wall in bg; the two men are listente a radio in the bg, man at left seems rather solemn. G19) CU Painting of a battleship; PAN right to other drawings or paintings of warships and silhouettes. G20) MS The two men lying prone on the floor in the artist's shop, one man doing all the talking; man in fg is doing the listening; one man is happy, the other solemn. G21) CU Some of the furniture in the room; PAN right of small cases, scale model of a ship on the bookcase. G22) MS Two young Japanese gentlemen asleep on the floor in the center of the artist's shop, covered with blankets; man in bg turns his head, begins talking to the man in mid fg. G23) CU Japanese newspaper, picture of Hitler, Hirohite. G24) MS Two periscopes cutting the surface of the water, shoreline in bg. G25) LS Looking out over bay to a hilly shoreline in bg; submarine breaks the surface in the center of the bay and is underway off to left, water washing from its deck. G26) CU Japanese submarine underway on the surface; mountainous shoreline in the bg; men are running about on the bridge of the submarine. G27) ECU PAN Japanese submarine underway on the surface. G28) CU Japanese submarine; lone man up on the bridge sending a message by using his arms, other men are up in the bridge area; submarine turns off to the right; industrial area in far bg. G29) MS INTERIOR: Bunk room, two men talking; officer chats with the crewman who is standing; bunks at the right of the scene with folded blankets stacked up on the bunk.30) CU Submarine leaving scene at left in the bay. G31) HA MS Fleat; launch coming alongside the fleat; crewmen jump down on the fleat to secure the launch; other Japanese crewmen jump down on the fleat; Japanese officer leaves the launch, followed by others, moves over the float, up the brow. G

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities