China Strikes Back (1937)

In 1936 and 1937 Harry Dunham shot several hundred feet of film being the first cameraman to penetrate into the Shensi region and obtain footage of the Communist forces in China He smuggled his film out and placed it in the hands of Frontier Films Leyda Lerner Meyers and Maddow they had to use pseudonyms spent four months preparing the film for publication In that time the Chinese situation altered to such an extent that Frontier had to change the scenario several times in order to keep up with eventsthe producers had to make a happy change in the theme of China Strikes Back It was no longer a film showing the Chinese people moving toward unity It became a pictorial history revealing the how and why behind a realized unity IMDb