An extraordinary window on to the cosmopolitan heart of Shanghai - Nanjing Road - over a hundred years ago.

This is an extraordinary window on to the heart of cosmopolitan Shanghai, over a hundred years ago, featuring a Nanjing Road bustling with crowds of Chinese, Sikhs and Europeans. It is the only known surviving example of the film reportage shot by British war correspondent Joe Rosenthal during his coverage of the Boxer Rebellion in China between 1900 and 1901.

"This is an excellent street scene, owing to the varied character of the vehicles, and the cosmopolitan character of the pedestrians. Here are shown rickshaws, hansoms, a Chinese fourwheeler with a native driver and his pigtail, a European lady on a bicycle, sedan chairs, a detachment of Sikhs, Palanquins, and German officers. It is of the highest photographic quality, and a most satisfactory film." (Warwick Trading Company catalogue, April 1901. p.201. no. 5997a)