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Scenes in Chinese City

Tantalising stock-shot glimpses of mid-century Shanghai, probably snipped from a documentary – but which?

Travelogue 1930 2 mins Silent

Overview

These tantalising glimpses of mid-century Shanghai were found among a collection of films donated by a closed-down stock-shot library, and were probably snipped from a documentary – but which? The fragmentary views of a wedding procession, kites, firemen dousing a blazing building, a bird market and street acrobats are curious bookends to a lengthy shot of toy dogs spinning on a dumb waiter.

Genres

Travelogue

Country

Great Britain

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Subjects

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