Shaky dull in contrast and imagery First Pictures .. Bombing of Shanghai! Some of the shots are very disturbing and depressing.
"You are going to be shocked, but this is war uncensored" Plane landing. Supplies are unloaded. Title: "Peiping" Pan a very dark shot of a bridge. Soldiers marching. Plane overhead. Bomb is dropped in the distance. Armed soldiers running in the streets; there are planes bombing. Bomb damaged buildings. Refugees trying to leave a town. Outside of town, soldiers on a truck drive through a battlefield. Ambulance. Dead bodies in a river. A large truck filled with dead bodies. Bodies line the roads. Many of these appear to be civilians.
Shanghai. Military battleship move through the sea. Plane overhead. People in a park run for safety. City streets are packed with people trying to flee the city (refugees). More shots of planes above, cut with people running in the streets. Bomb damaged buildings. A car on fire. People walking in the street stopping at bombed out sites where they uncover the dead and the dying. Many dead bodies in the streets and by the exits of buildings. The dead are carried away. 2 men taken away by the police, possibly Japanese soldiers. British officers try to control the crowds in the streets.
Shanghai. Europeans board ships to escape the war. Women saying goodbye to their husbands. Boat filled with people returning to Europe. Mostly women & children. Pan across the harbor, many fires can be seen on shore. A dead body floating in the water. More shots of bomb damaged buildings. Wounded being carried away on stretchers. Dead being loaded onto a truck