CHINA / DEFENCE: World War 2: City opens parachute school for youth movement (1942)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit The spirit of China’s indomitable resistance to invader is shown by calmness in provisional capital.? Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: East Now Firm Against Japanese CHINA: Chungking: EXT Chungking with Yantse River in foreground / Typical Chungking busy street / Painted propaganda posters in city square / Bill poster posting up latest news on wall / Chinese citizens reading newspapers on wall / Chinese riding up steps in sedan chairs / British Ambassador Sir Horace Seymour getting into sedan chair / Man fitting children out with parachute apparatus / Parachute hat fixed on little girl / Man fixing helmet / Chinese girl and boy scouts watching / Angle shot looking up at kids jumping from parachute tower, pan down to kid landing / Kids on parachutes leaving tower and landing on ground / Man unfixing harness f
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