Footage from 1938 Shanghai

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Annoyingly colorized and of uncertain provenance*, this is still a spectacular footage of Shanghai c. August 1938. It lets you experience the awesome grandeur of the Bund, the giant traffic curve of Avenue Edward VII, the left-side driving on Nanking Road (drive slowly not to hit those random pedestrians!), the tremendous bustle of the downtown streets, with their trams, rickshaws and double-decker buses, and the intense river port traffic.

* Likely, an Australian archive.





https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ







Persons in summer clothes exiting the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on the Bund. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ





People conversing in the street. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ





Traffic on Avenue Edward VII. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ





Driving on Nanking Road. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ





Double-decker on Nanking Road, near Tibet Road. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ





Cruiser Izumo anchored near the Japanese Consulate. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ





The flagship of the British Navy in China, HMS Cumberland, flying the flag of the Department of the Director of Naval Equipment, is being towed along the Whangpoo River. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Er4y177aQ