- Title: CF385
- Date:1960s
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Summary:
10:00:32 - 10:04:31
V'shots of Chinese culture: Great Wall. Architecture ( ornate building by river ), music ( man playing instrument ), drama, bird carving / statue, Chinese writing.
Peasants working in fields, washing. Squalid living conditions.
Labourers - hauling boat up stream against current.
Short clips of uprisings.
War footage - warlords, Japanese invasions, civil war. Soldiers, bodies, people running. Refugees. People kneeling in field waiting to be shot / executed.
10:04:31 - 10:08:24
Communism, Red ; marching / parades, huge drums, huge crowds.
Village community.
Radio and newspaper controlled by communism.
Map of China - Peking = control
Industrial footage - steel, ship / boat building, trains.
V'shots people / peasants working the land / fields - communes, harvester.
10:08:24 - 10:11:54
Cottage industries - bicycle wheels, rims, pipes - machinery and workshops.
Int commune run shop, medical clinic, school - v'shots inside classrooms. V'shots children working the fields. V'shots adults learning to read and write - nice footage of young girl helping older woman to write.
10:11:54 - 10:14:59
Various shots of large family eating together at table.
V'shots Chinese monks in ceremony.
Children holding communist flag - being taught communism.
Ordinary people, village peasants in 'self-criticism' meetings.
10:14:59 - 10:16:06
Huge crowds / parades - marching.
Mao waving from balcony
V'shots boys / girls, men / women marching. RED. - TYPE:Historical
- DATE:1960s
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- SOURCE:Filemaker
- Decade:
- Colour:Colour
- Keywords:CHINA, FAR EAST, COMMUNISM, RED THREAT, DOMINO EFFECT, MCCARTHYISM, SOCIALISM, MAO
- Master Title:CF385
- Segment:0
- Sound:Sound
