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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This silent film features footage shot around China in the late 1920s or 1930s. Throughout the film, title cards indicate where the footage was shot. The film contains shots of some of China’s great cities and historical sites. The film was presented by Cine Art Productions, Inc., an early producer of fiction and non-fiction films for the home market. The film begins with people walking at a market (0:20). Massive walls and gates with Chinese troops and officers alongside them (0:34). Historical Chinese temples that have stood for hundreds of years (0:46). People living on poorly constructed junk boats (1:05). Chinese troops marching (1:15). Recruits training (1:26). Recruits training with guns (1:38). Troops leaving to the fighting front (1:44). A Chinese armored train (1:55). A gateway to Ming’s Tomb, near Nanking (2:16). The Spirit Road leading to Ming’s Tomb with animal statues lining the path (2:26). Massive carvings of stone warriors line the path (2:36). Massive carved elephant (2:55). Massive carved horse (3:00). Enormous stone walls and the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is buried in a tomb behind them (3:14). Centuries old Chinese carvings (3:24). Man walks along the path to an enormous stone structure where Sun Yat Sen, who served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China is buried (3:39). Text saying, “A cross section of that vast interior, almost untouched by Western Civilization brings before you some remarkable scenes of primitive life” (4:02). The word “China” with Chinese architecture in the background (4:08). Chinese building next to a pond (4:14). Chinese structures built on water (4:18). Large Chinese building (4:28). The bridge approaching Beijing (Peking) (4:34). Funeral of a wealthy Chinese person with people carrying an elaborate casket (4:45). Miniature house (5:05). Old Chinese man (5:12). Chinese man in tattered clothing sits on the ground (5:18). Chinese puppets in a miniature Chinese house (5:21). Five Pagoda Temple (5:32) in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia in north-west China. Men throw water on the streets with a shovel to keep them clean while people push carts (5:50). Chinese people ride in horse drawn carriages and cars (6:02). Two men pump and pour water into buckets (6:23). The Beijing city fortifications with people going about their daily lives in the streets next to them (6:38). Mukden Palace, where many former emperors are entombed (6:56). A street in Tianjin, China (7:22). Men running with carts behind him in front of a lavish building (7:33). Rug store in Tianjin, China (7:50). The gateway at Nankow Pass, about thirty miles distance from Peking at the Great Wall of China. A man and his Bactrian/double humped camels are passing through the gate (8:00). Line of Bactrian camels (8:22). View of Hong Kong from a gondola (8:38). Flower market in Hong Kong (8:47). Hotel near Carton, on the Pearl River (9:04). Boat and a bridge on a small river (9:06). Busy city street in Shanghai, China (9:16). People gathered by flimsy boats (9:34). Street from Hankow, China which is near the Yangtze river (9:49). Cargo being transported on the back of people onto boats (10:00). River surrounded by mountains and agricultural land (10:19). Young man carrying firewood (10:36). Chinese town filled with people (10:49). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
