https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9b213690-7f36-44ee-bfd1-e6c6d96a5b46 Created in 1946 by the American organization "United Service to China", this rare film "Bridge to Yinhsi" presents the chaotic situation in post-WWII China and attempts to bolster the idea that a "new", "industrious" and democratic China is likely to emerge from the on-going Civil War but only with strong American support. The film presents an American town called Junction City and compares it to an enclave of Shanghai called Yinhsi, a place where few Western technologies have penetrated. Yinshi unfortunately lacks electricity, radios, telephones, railroads and even paved roads and running water. Without modern medicine, agricultural techniques and advances in transportation and education, the narrator argues, it is unlikely China will succeed. United China Relief, an organization which brought together several different philanthropic organizations operating in China, was originally created by B.A. Garside during the run-up to WWII. Other organizations joining United China Relief included the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the China Emergency Relief Committee, the American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, the Church Committee for China Relief, the American Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, and the China Aid Council. The original board for this organization included Pearl Buck, William Bullitt, Henry Luce, Robert Sproul, Wendell Willkie, John D. Rockefeller III, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., David O. Selznick, and Thomas Lamont. Eleanor Roosevelt served as honorary chairman. This board chose Garside as the executive director, and he set out to raise the money needed to help the refugees from the war. United China Relief was the largest philanthropic effort to aid the Chinese people up to that time. This organization, which later became known as United Service to China, raised over US$50 million in donations. Garside's skill in fundraising was shown by the receipt of over $500,000 by June 1941, a mere three months after the launch of the original campaign seeking $5,000,000. From 1941-1967, Garside served in various executive capacities with both organizations. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BncJVuJK32o Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:30:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9b213690-7f36-44ee-bfd1-e6c6d96a5b46 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.