Home Movies Shot by American Airman Shanghai & Beijing Republic of China Guam 51294 (1946)

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Shot by an American military officer, this 16mm silent home movie shows images of the Republic of China (approx. September 1945-1949) in Shaoxing, Shanghai, an unidentified Taiwanese town, a flyby of Beijing and the Great Wall of China, as well as the U.S. Air Force bases in Guam, in Shanghai Jiangwan, Inarajam in Guam, and an unidentified R&R location and airbase (identifiable only by U.S. VRE-1 Air Evacuation Squadron signs). Footage includes one aircraft C-4 airframe 90408 (which would later be destroyed during the Biafran Airlift in Uli, Biafra) and captured L1N1/Ki34 Japanese aircraft reused by the Army of the Republic of China. 1:34 Taipei airbase, Taiwan. Damaged and destroyed airplanes bearing Republic of China insignias and U.S. transport planes, Taiwanese and Japanese men and children 1:36 Plowing a field with a water buffalo 1:50-3:30 Inarajam, Guam 2:39 Saint Joseph's Church, Inarajam, Guam 3:30 An airbase with a C-54 airframe 56512 (could not be found) 3:56 C-54 (C-54A-DO or DC-4) airframe 90408, built 15/04/1943, flew American Airlines after the war, then leased or sold to Air France under airframe number F-BELH, destroyed in Uli, Biafra 4:32 continued shots of the refueling trucks, hangars, personnel barracks 4:33 Group of girls running on the road from the airbase 4:40 Locals, cleaning a road 4:46 Mixed Japanese-style architecture, likely - Taiwan, Various shops: Life-saving Tonic 鹿華有限公司 Luhua Co., Ltd. 上海麗華有限公司 Shanghai Lihua Co., Ltd. 三友漆號 Sanyou paint 各國顏料…

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Running time

22 minutes

Collection

Ephemeral Films

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