https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f2be7812-e17d-417d-8ade-ac4a00c655fb "The Transportation and Communication of Japan" is a black and white, restricted film created between 1942 and 1947. It was official film #MISC 1061 and was produced for the War Department (which was dissolved September, 1947) by the Army Pictorial Service (created in 1942 by General George C. Marshall). It was assembled from Japanese films and used in the Civil Affairs Training Schools conducted by the Provost Marshal General. Its main purpose was to inform the viewers -- presumably U.S. servicemen and officers -- of how Japan’s transportation and communication systems are organized. Credits (0:14-0:47). View of Japan’s Mt Fuji and a fishing boat in a river in the foreground (0:48-1:08). Mountainous terrain with a railroad traveling through it and along the coast. Trains are a main transportation source (1:09-2:10). Travelers unloading from a train (2:16-2:40). Japanese Express trains, a faster way to travel (2:42-2:55). Japanese Rotary Snow trains remove snow from the mountainous tracks (2:56-3:26). A pusher type snow plow removing snow (3:27-3:34). Tokyo, capital of Japan, is dominated by trains and subways and is the center of the railroad system. JR East operates Tokyo’s largest network, including the Yamanote Line loop (4:16-4:41). Handling freight by rail (4:48-5:01). Electric trains are in Tokyo and Osaka (5:02-5:20). A Tokyo subway entrance (5:23-5:41). Tokyo’s Elevated Railway (5:42-6:07). Fukuoka, capital of Kyushu Island (6:09-6:32). Fukuoka’s street car (6:33-6:42). A street car for watering the streets (6:58-7:04). Fukuoka buses that burn charcoal (7:05-7:30). Japanese standing in line for the bus (8:09-8:30). Bus lines for the rural areas (8:32-10:21). Bay in which Admiral Perry anchored in 1853 (9:17-9:34). A truck on the narrow road (10:33-10:45). Car transportation on city streets (11:03-11:22). Japanese Taxi cab (11:30-11:42). Motorcycles share the roads (11:47-12:00). Japanese Rickshaws (12:01-12:06). Oxen power for farming (12:11-12:17). Bicycle transportation, some with trailers (12:17-12:36). Donkey’s pulling a wagon through the streets (12:38-13:04). A pig pulling a wagon (13:05-13:21). Many kinds of bridges can be found in Japan: Arched wooden bridge (13:29-13:35), straight wooden bridges (13:36-13:58), steel and concrete bridges built like American bridges (14:26-14:55). Japanese sculls, sampans, and fishing vessels provide transportation (15:08-16:22). Japanese fishing craft, often powered by sail or oars (16:23-16:52). Japanese ships are now used for cargo (17:01-18:17). Air travel: Douglas DC-3 or the Showa L2D (18:30-19:06). Mt. Fuji (19:13-19:17). A radio tower (19:20-19:30). Radio studio recording (20:00-20:06) a Japanese conductor conducting the Naval band (20:07-20:17), a man singing (20:22-20:24). Japanese listening to their radio (20:36-21:30). Telegraph communication (21:40-21:52). Newspaper row in Tokyo, where daily news is printed (21:53-22:31). Hand typesetting the newspaper (22:32-22:43). Printing the newspaper (22:49-23:04). Corner newspaper stand (23:16-23:18). Aircraft equipped with a photographic studio and able to take pictures, develop them, and print them (23:46-24:22). Radiotelegraphy (24:33-24:39). Carrier pigeons used to send photographs (24:58-25:16). Map showing where hydroelectric power sources are. Honshu Island has most of it with Nagoya the main recipient (25:25-26:01). Flowing Japanese rivers and dams (26:17-28:04). Power generators (28:06-28:22). Power house control board (28:28-28:33). Transformer station (28:36-28:57). Wind mill (28:58-29:28). 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=caIdzdABwJY Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:06:00 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/f2be7812-e17d-417d-8ade-ac4a00c655fb 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.