George Krainukov as Portrayed by Sapajou
Posted: July 5th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
George Krainukov (who later changed his name to Crane) was one of the great pioneers of the newsreel among the foreign press in China. He did more than most, including the print journalists, to bring home the reality of the deteriorating situation in China in the later 1930s. Krainukov was a White Russian émigré to Shanghai who’d arrived in 1932. In 1937 he was to largely outshine the competition with what many thought was the best footage of the carnage from the Japanese bombing of Shanghai for Universal Newsreel. And so the other day I came across this 1941 cartoon of Krainukov by the great White Russian Shanghailander cartoonist Sapajou for the North-China Daily News. The cartoon honoured the fact that Krainukov was imminently to leave Shanghai for the USA.
Can anyone tell me the date and place of birth of George Krainukov? I am interested to know more about his biography…
Thanks
A guy did contact me about a bio he was writing of Krainukov so hopefully he’ll see this.