2 Million Homeless In China’s Great Flood (1947)

Full title reads: “2 Million Homeless In China’s Great Flood“. The plight of Kwantung Province where the Pei river has burst its banks. LS General view of submerged fields and towns. MS Chains of Chinese men, women and children labouring to build dykes. CU Men knocking piles into the river. CU Rice being dished out of homeless victims of the flood. CU a woman in a food queue with a baby in a sling on her back. MS food being served to people in queue. CU women and children eating their one daily meal. CU Good head shot study of a small Chinese boy pushing food from a plate to his mouth with a chopsticks. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news a