This homemade footage, dating between 1930 (the year the Sassoon Building was built) and 1933 (in the film, the building of the Bank of China in Shanghai isn’t yet built and there are no German flags in Shanghai — which were normally seen after 1933, as the Nazi Germany became more overt in its ROC military adviser and military materiel provider role) shows the Western Kowloon and Hong Kong Island part of the then-British colony of Hong Kong during a typhoon, which are a frequent spring and autumn occurrence in those parts, and the port of Shanghai with a defunct Malaya shipping company warehouse, the waterfront Bund District of colonial architecture in Puxi (East of the River), the Pudong district which remained rural and almost empty until the late 1980ies, the French Concession of Shanghai, ending with a Bund panorama filmed from a boat on the Huangpu River.

0:07-0:12 Victoria Peak Hong Kong view to the NW – Clock Tower, built 1915, in Tsim Shar Sui

0:12-0:13 View towards Lantao and the coming raincloud over the sea, during a typhoon

0:13- Trees lashed by the typhoon, at a promenade by the seaside, Salisbury avenue or Tsim Shar Tsui promenade

0:17 – Plants lashed by the wind, on a Peninsula Hotel balcony

0:22 Kowloon Canton Railway, West Kowloon terminus, by the Clock Tower at Tsim Shar Sui, man running to his car during the typhoon

0:25 view from the Peninsula Hotel upon the roof of the West Kowloon Terminus and the Victoria Harbou, three Westerners looking at the sea

0:30 from the same place – view upon the clock tower and the station.

0:38 A couple of lone walkers in the street during the typhoon

0:42 View upon the Tsim Shar Tsui ferry piers by the Old Maritime Police building

0:47 Wearing shorts

0:52 – Plants lashed by the wind. Peninsula Hotel balcony

0:55 Crossing the harbor in a typical Hong Kong Star ferry.

0:57-1:11– Junks and tramp steamers in the HK harbor

1:12 Hong Kong Island waterfront

1:25 HK Island Street

1:37 What looks like Hong Kong Government House/Flagstaff House with a canal in front of it.

1:46 Rickshaws, pedestrian, few cars on the road

1:48 View from the HK Star Ferry

1:52 Fishing village

1:57-2:07 Approaching Shanghai, the Huangpu estuary, Bund buildings in the distance

2:10 The Shanghai Bund

2:28 Wusong River

2:32 Festival in Shanghai, people carrying portable votive effigies and temples

2:48 Traveling monk-musicians

2:52 Rich person’s palanquin

2:55 Traveling in a litter or palanquin, past a battery factory

3:08 Shanghai streets, port, French Concession, French Annamese in pith helmets.

3:37 Normandie Apartments (built 1924)

3:48 Boat people’s at the Pudong District

3:57 Children playing cards on ship’s deck

4:15-4:25 Cantonese sailors

4:25-4:40 Pudong (West of the river) District is a pristine countryside

4:40-6:07 Ships at the Shanghai harbor, coolies, junks and riverboats

5:09 A warehouse with a red-and-white striped Malaya flag

5:43 Huangpu Estuary – entire Bund visible in distance

6:17 Cathay Hotel in the Sassoon Building

6:21 Shanghai trams

6:24 Nanjing East Road towards the Sassoon Building and the Huangpu River

6:40 Shanghai streets, men wearing both traditional and western clothing, while women wear almost exclusively qipao and cheongsam for the richer ones and traditional work clothing for the poor.

7:00 “Tongcheng pawnshop”

7:07 Flag with the rising sun and the words “The Great (Lowly) Qing/Green”. A westerner, probably the cameraman’s friend, saying something,

7:10 The cameraman

7:15 Mother and child waiting at a crossing, a tramway passes by “Whiteaway Laidlaw &Co. Ltd “, in the Nanjing East Road .

7:15-7:45 Pedestrian and equestrian traffic

7:45 View from a tram with a young woman with her child, passing pawnshops, a hair salon…

7:54 Tramway repair team hauling iron concrete reinforcements

7:56-8:14 Fabric shop, selling mohair and wool, workers pulling a produce cart, pawnshops, dry seafood stores,

8:14 Child, sleeping in the arms of his mother

8:18 Turkish bath & Massage. Restaurant Sukiyaki

8:26 A high-end establishment with a British Indian guard

8:34 Car park, by the riverside, driving towards the Bund

8:45 – end – panorama of the Shanghai bund shot from the boat on the Pudong River

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