Shot by an unknown American, this silent home movie footage was shot in and around Shanghai, China in 1946-1948 time period. It is part of a group of 16mm movies shot by an unknown American who was working for the OMEA, or Officer’s Moral Endeavor Association, a sort of non-governmental, YMCA type group operating in post-WWII China. This film contains footage of the women of the American diplomatic mission visiting a convent or children’s home that also appears in film XD19624. It also shows footage of the Yellow River/Huang Pu with lots of ship traffic and U.S. Navy warships at anchor.

0:10-0:28 Pan from an entrance portal to a river. Same location as at 8:10 of the XD19624 video , then pan along the river and a dilapidated railing along the riverside road.

0:47 Portal again, convent or some sort of institution…

0:59 A temple, perhaps on the grounds where XD19624 @8:14 is(was) located

1:17 Same ladies as in the XD19624 @ 10:09, the one on the right @ 1:24 is the wife of the American diplomat @3:40 in XD19614 cruiser USS Los Angeles and meeting with Soong Meiling @10:46 in XD19614. Accompanied by the children

1:29 The two other American ladies posing next to stone lions at the portal with a Chinese boy

1:30 The American Diplomat’s wife walks out from behind them, showing the boy her still camera and how to use it, followed by a pan over to the road, a pine, decorated as a Christmas tree, the trucks and a crowd of women and children, waiting.

2:04-4:09 Same location – a children’s home or a kindergarten, as in XD19624@10:09. American women greeting the Chinese workers and women, distributing small gifts, and interviewing people.

4:09 Sailing junks entering the Suzhou river, barbette of the Russian Consulate in Shanghai, panorama of the river with the two U.S. Navy heavy cruisers and a group of destroyers – same footage as in film XD4960 at 6:04 and XD49584.

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