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        Shanghai, China c.1937

        Ordinary life in extraordinary times - these ex-pats' home-movie snapshots of Shanghai capture the city on the brink of Japanese invasion.

        Amateur film 1937 18 mins Silent

        Overview

        These home-movie snapshots of ordinary ex-pat life in Shanghai are an intriguing record of an unnamed 'Shanghailander' family in a city on the brink of Japanese invasion. The film captures everyday life - a wedding, a hunt on horseback, garden relaxation - until the second half, which charts the family's escape by ship to Burma. It was surely a bittersweet passage: their daughter is born at sea.