Shanghai Volunteer Corps marching through Shanghai

While I was still wondering about the uniform of the man on the photo in the previous post, I was pointed to some footage of the S.V.C. marching through Shanghai. There is always something exciting about the moving image that beats the impact of seeing archival photographs!

There are many more movie clips from the AP archival footage that I'll be browsing tonight, instead of writing my paper...

Tags: ap, archive, shanghai, shanghai volunteer corps, video

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