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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Shot by an unknown American, this silent home movie footage was shot in and around Shanghai, China in 1946-1948 time period. The person who filmed them appears to have been 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 shows scenes of life in 1946-1948 Shanghai, Huangpu road, Daming road, Jinling road, Huaiai road and Yan'an. A celebration of opening a local chapter of a Triad, boat people, street dancers, street traders can be seen. Footage ends with a visit Jing'an temple before its destruction and modern-era rebuilding. 0:09 Broadway Mansions, Shanghai 0:29 Sign: Tamin Road 0:37 Lion dancing troupe at the Daming road in Waitan district of Shanghai (northern part of the Bund – from Broadway Mansions to the north), people are burning firecrackers and throwing
