The Blue Express: Difference between revisions
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The Blue Express: Difference between revisions
Some [[Arisaka Type 30]] rifles with fixed Type 30 bayonets are also used by soldiers and workers.
Some [[Arisaka Type 30]] rifles with fixed Type 30 bayonets are also used by soldiers and workers.
[[Image:Arisaka t30.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Arisaka Type 30 - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka]]
[[File:Type 30 rifle and Type 30 bayonet display.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Arisaka Type 30 with Type 30 bayonet -6.5x50mmSR Arisaka.]]
[[File:BlueExpress-Mauser1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Two soldiers behind the Chinese Officer (Spasaevsky) with their rifles with fixed bayonets.]]
[[File:BlueExpress-Mauser1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Two soldiers behind the Chinese Officer (Spasaevsky) with their rifles with fixed bayonets.]]
[[File:BlueExpress-Mauser2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The same soldiers carry out the command to arrest the Coolie. Before and after these scenes in the third-class wagon, the soldiers are all armed with G98s.]]
[[File:BlueExpress-Mauser2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The same soldiers carry out the command to arrest the Coolie. Before and after these scenes in the third-class wagon, the soldiers are all armed with G98s.]]
The Blue Express, or China Express, is a 1929 Soviet silent drama film directed by Ilya Trauberg (Assistant director of October: Ten Days That Shook the World). China in the 1920s: an express train to bring travelers to Russia is waiting to depart. As in the reality of society, passengers on the train are divided into three classes: in the first class, accompanied by military honors, the British envoy; with him missionaries, diplomats, entrepreneurs. Sales representatives, citizens, and scholars sit in the compartments of the second class. The ordinary workers have to be satisfied with the third class.
The following weapons were used in the film The Blue Express:
The other overseer (Yakov Gudkin) owns a 1914 Mauser Pocket Pistol. It is also used by the Chinese General (Chai Wan Sen) and the British envoy (Sergei Minin) at the end.
Chinese soldiers, some policemen, and later workers can be seen carrying German Gewehr 98s, probably standing for Hanyang Type 88, M1907 and Type 24 Zhongzheng rifles. Most of these rifles are fitted with Seitengewehr 98/05 bayonets.
