Presented by Exclusive Movie Studios, this silent film about Manchuria, probably dates to late 1932 or early 1933. Like the propaganda film “Manchukuo” in the Periscope Film collections, this film was probably made by the Japanese in an attempt to positively influence American public opinion. The movie contains footage of landmarks of Shenyang (Mukden) – the capital of Manchukuo, Dalian, Lyaoyang, and Lushun. It also shows what appears to be the funeral of the Col. Argounoff A. G. in October 1932 of the Russian White Army, following his assassination in Harbin by the NKVD.

0:14 Card: Japan has fought twice over Manchuria, with China and Russia. Manchuria is still a danger to the people of the Far East

0:20 Map of railways

0:36 Lushunkou forts showing damage from Russo-Japanese War.

0:48 Card: “The migration to Manchuria is tremendous”

0:51 Osaka-Dalian line Harbin-maru steamer in port. This was a Japanese Imperial Army hospital ship from July, 1932 until its sinking 10th of January 1942 off the coast of China by USS Stingray.

1:00 Likely – Korean forced labour immigrants

1:04 Train station

1:13 Card: The rich fertile plains are known as the granary of Asia.

1:23 Peasants ploughing. Horse-powered pumps, women threshing wheat with flails, men gathering straw, winnowing grain

1:56 Card: Crops are millet, soy beans and wheat.

2:06 Corn in stacks for storage and drying.

2:28 Peeling corn and making flour

2:55 A soybean mill powered by a donkey

3:03 Waterwheel

3:20 Card: In April of the Chinese calendar, thousands of pilgrims troop to ancient shrines to get the blessings of their saints

3:33 Travelers on a wagon, and a Manchu family

3:44 Card: A Chinese wedding procession

4:08 Card: Imperial Tombs

4:16 White Pagoda (Baita) of Guangyou temple, Liaoyang, of the Manchu Qing dinasty

4:30 Eastern Qing Tombs, in Zunhua, Hebei province

4:47 Shots of the mausoleums

5:18 Card: Anglers Hill lies along the river Shee

5:24 River Xi.

5:32 Card: Imperial Russia once dreamed of a vast new empire in Manchuria

5:40 Scandinavian-styled buildings in Harbin

5:45 Card: Harbin in Northern Manchuria called the Moscow of the Far East.

5:54 A Litfass column advertisement in Harbin, covered exclusively with ads in Russian

5:56 Streets of Harbin, full of Caucasians because of the 1922 immigration wave, bringing over 200,000 Russians

6:14 Card: The Russian Churches are the show places of Harbin.

6:17 Church of our lady of Evel, Daoli district, Harbin

6:24 A Russian orthdodox church pope

6:26 Card: A Russian funeral procession.

6:30 Possibly the funeral of Col. Argounoff Afinogen Gavrilovich of the Russian Imperial Army, Vladivostok military corps, in October 1932.

6:44 Card:The Fashun Coal Mines, largest open cut mines in the world

6:54-7:15 Fushun Coal mines, currently the site of Fushun Mining Group.

7:16 Card: The equipment was purchased in the United States. These mines are in Japanese-leased territory.

7:21 A steam shovel loads coal onto flatbed coal railcars.

7:49 Card: Cause of the present Jap-China war, Japan claims, is China’s obstruction to the peaceful expansion of these mines

7:54 Trains of hopper cars full of coal

8:00 Card: Mukden, railway center of Manchuria.

8:09 Shenyang (Mukden) Central Station Square and…8:11 … driving off from the Shenyang Central Train Station northeast along Zhong Shan Road

8:21 Street sign: Chiyouda street, Wakamatsu Town　

8:23 Zhongshan road, next to the Imperial Palace

8:34 Imperial palace grounds – wall and gate next to Zhaoling Tomb

8:42 Old Shenyang district

8:46 Former residence of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang, effective ruler of Manchuria from 1911, and officially from 1927 to 1928 until his assassination.

8:52 One of the demolished Shenyang city gates

8:55 Card: Japanese soldiers being blessed before going to war

9:00 Shinto ceremony

9:11 Card: Steel works owned by South Manchuria Railroad. With these iron deposits Japan is independent of the foreign supply

9:22 Fushun Steel Works, one of the most profitable Japanese corporations of the colonial era.

9:54 Port of Dalian

10:03 Card: … it looks like any American or European port.

10:11 Passenger waiting hall, the entrance was demolished and later rebuilt.

10:19 Card: The city of Dairen has wide tree-lined avenues

10:25 Former Bank of China building, built 1910, and other colonial powers’ banks. Former Dalian City Hall.10:32 Shot overviewing the old central Dalian

10:42 A playground

10:47 Card: We leave Manchuria with its vast potential wealth – the danger spot to world peace.

10:53 Harbin-maru

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